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[–] snooggums@midwest.social 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How about instead of asking for donations, the money is just collected through taxes? What a ceazy idea!

[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Using taxes to pay for things? Crazy!

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I want my taxes to go to burying brown child under rubble in Palestine! (ever conservative ever)

[–] Syringe@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

How in the hell is he going to obtain his own bootstraps if you're paying for everything with our taxes?!?!?

Let them get jobs in the mine! I've been working there since I was eleven and I turned out just fine!!

Excuse me - I need to go move my lifted ram 2500 before the repo man finds it.

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

In a video shared to his mom’s Facebook, Daken had challenged “friends, family and local businesses to donate what they can to this cause.”

If they’re required to be there by law it’s inhumane to charge them money for food.

[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

”Children in elementary school should not have debt tied to their name. We have found out that there are high schools that keep seniors from attending prom or walking at graduation if they have stuff like student lunch debt,” Kramer said. “Some families can’t help it. They can’t pay it off.”

In case anyone had any doubts that the cruelty is the point. Stratify children based on their socioeconomic status at the earliest possible opportunity.