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  • You have to understand how expensive it is supporting a family right now. People are spending an insane amount of money on groceries alone. $1,000 - $1,800 a month

    The gas to get to work for a two income household could be upwards of $1,000 a month.

    Mortgage renewal? Hope you have an extra $700 a month laying around.

    Cad payments? Ya that’s going to add another $200-$300 a month in interest payments alone now.

    And forget it if you have kids. Daycare, physical activities, summer camp? Maybe another $12k per year depending on how many kids you have!

    The issue here is that the middle class are also being destroyed and without them there’s no money to even give to the government to help lower income people.

    In Canada, $150k a year for a family of 5 is low income now.

    At least lower income people get subsidized food and housing. Middle class? They get 20% interest on credit cards to keep afloat.

    This isn’t about wages, it’s about costs. All of them of which taxes are just one. A big one, but just one.

    You can attack the corpo’s later, right now the fight is with the government to get the money going out under control.

    You can get a 50% raise, but if you’re still spending 70% more to eat and have a roof over your head, it doesn’t really matter does it?

    If shit was more affordable, maybe $40k a year could be a livable wage again. Cause right now it’s not.










  • This was obviously an accident. The report says the driver stopped and cooperated with police.

    Just an unfortunate accident. Car accidents should never happen, obviously, but being on the road is inherently fucking dangerous.

    My father was killed in a car crash that he didn’t cause, my friends older brother was killed on his bike on the side of the road when he got hit by a passing car, I’ve been in about 6 small car accidents myself.

    I have two friends who have died on motorcycles, and 3 more who have had bad accidents and are lucky to still be alive.

    You take your life in your hands when you use a roadway in any vehicle, but especially in a vehicle that leaves you so unprotected.

    Very unfortunate and I’m glad everyone is okay.


  • What kind of source do you need? Welfare was created to get people on their feet and off of welfare, not for a quasi-UBI program that it’s turned into.

    If welfare was working, you’d see less and less people receiving it. That’s not what’s happening though. There are more people on welfare now than there was 50 years ago.

    The war on poverty has been a failure. Time for a new approach

    Why would I put more than the minimal amount of effort into any post on lemmy, knowing that 100 communist teenagers are just going to reply “lol wrong, you fascist” and downvote?

    If you want to debate me, I’d rather do that in real time on another program like discord. But lemmy is just a left wing commie shithole