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Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public school student is going to get free lunch

www.businessinsider.com Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public school student is going to get free lunch.

Students in Massachusetts will get free lunch and breakfast at school thanks to a new 4% tax put on people who earn more than $1 million.

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1y ago

Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public school student is going to get free lunch

www.businessinsider.com /massachusetts-millionaire-tax-gets-kids-free-school-lunches-2023-8

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1y ago

Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public school student is going to get free lunch

www.businessinsider.com /massachusetts-millionaire-tax-gets-kids-free-school-lunches-2023-8

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It's easier to sell a tax hike if you know exactly where it's going :)
- Unless you're Waukesha, Wisconsin, where they specifically voted to stop giving kids handouts (i.e. free lunch). Because, you know, kids should work for their food or something instead of using their energy to learn.
  
  probably the same people that say abortion is murdering kids...
  
  I mean, cheap labor has to come from somewhere... Where do you find empoverished people to exploit if you don't force births?
  
  If you add underage labour liberalisation to that, you get a bingo!
  
  I'll raise you the most voted pre-candidate to president in my country, who said that people should be able to sell their own organs if they want to. (He plans to worsen things for workers in such a way that they would need to.)
  
  Is this guy an ultraliberal moron or a pretend-conservative who says that but thinks abortion and prostitution should be illegal?
  
  Strangely, both.
  
  Of course it is. But you know, kids lives only really matter up until they are born. At that point the kids, their parents and their livelihoods and happiness...all that can fuck right off.
  
  kids just don’t want to work anymore these days. they’re too busy with their avocados and ipad games. meanwhile the child unemployment rates are at historical highs. won’t someone think of the economy?
  
  💀
  
  Waukesha County is by far the most conservative in the state, and has been playing a massive role in destroying our state's democratic process for a few decades now.
  Another fun fact about it is that they've been trying for years to glom onto the Lake Michigan watershed, which, geographically, it is not a part of. They want to straight up take our water, which they do not need, in exchange for nothing whatsoever of any real value.
  
  Yeah it's a cesspool that way.
  I live in the mke area and when looking for housing Waukesha was a tempting area because of how much more house you can get for the money, but I just don't think I can handle living there. Not to mention I want my kids going to schools in a community that gives a shit about kids and their education.
  
  "It's about time these kids had some skin in the game!"
  -Some Republican Somewhere I'm sure.

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