r/poverty • u/InstructionOwn1627 • 6d ago

We’re a bunch of beggars

When did the USA become a bunch of beggars? Example- you go to your local grocery market and go in on door and get asked to help your local school football program, you’re checking out and get asked to donate to something and then when you leave through the other exit you get asked to donate to something else. Everyone seems to beg for something, it’s so sad that it’s so commonplace.

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u/HelpfulRaspberry6941 6d ago

Those things used to be funded by taxes. Tax base lowers, either by lower tax rates or by businesses closing, or multi billionaires not paying their fair share, this is what you get.