Tax Deductions (lemmy.world)
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[–] 136 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Everyone is interpeting the comic wrong, shitty title most likely.

Lions = billionaires

Gazelle = workers

Why do the workers need education? To be taught to accept their place in the food chain. It's about propaganda, not taxes.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I like your interpretation but the title is literally the title the artist gave it. I'm not sure who is right, the artist or the observer.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Couldn’t it be that charity donations are tax deductible?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Exactly right - its in the first panel; "giving back". It's addressing the scraps that whales (large donor's, sought by non-profit organizations) throw to NPO's to "give back" to their community, which they also claim on their taxes as a donation.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    This, they only tell you "Oh Gates dropped out and he became the richest man!"

    In order to instill you with the idea that the rich are great men who can do the impossible and get good results...

    They keep quiet that he dropped out of Harvard and his Mother gave him a contract because she owned IBM.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Not even fair there tho, in nature predators maintain a stable environment by regulating prey populations to sustainable sizes.

    An equivalent under capitalism would be stronger anti-monopoly law and laws imposing heavy regulation on businesses above a given size within their respective markets.

    A big hunter that keeps grazers at a size that doesn't allow them to begin just eating everything and starving everyone else out while depleting the resource well for all.

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    ah yes, refuse to fund the schools with taxes and let the religious institutions do it. This is why Americans are generally thought of as 'well-educated' on the world stage.

    .../s

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    the lions here aren't the government they're corporations

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    its funny how it works both ways. I could easily see this comic on an right-wing facebook page in the USA in favor of 'school vouchers'

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Americans are nowhere near the top anymore, on any recent metric I’ve heard.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That’s because you have to use imperial to measure American success ;)

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I'm sure this is going to be a level headed rational discussion about taxes by all the knowledgeable skilled tax professionals in lemmy.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Be warned to anyone who might go check this out.

    This is a #VERY NSFW comic.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What is this Libertarian bullshit doing here?

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "corporations shouldn't be allowed to have influence over what content is taught in schools" is "libertarian bullshit"?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No but they "donate to their local community" to get tax deductions / write offs

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Let me ask you something: Do you think that when corps donate, they get MORE in tax savings than they put in for donations?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    For the most part people don't understand tax deductions and how they work, but this is true in the case of "donations in kind" of assets that are either overvalued or were going to be disposed of anyways.

    The ideal charitable donation disposes of something you were going to have to pay to get rid of, generates a tax deduction, and makes you look good at the same time.

    Perfect example is bogus environmental projects like building a reef out of old tires. It's win/win/win until everyone finds out that something in the tires actually kills fish

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Yeah they send old medicines to Africa too, some poor hospital on Kenya gets 100,000 expired doses of a medicine they don't even need if they could use it and then they have to pay to dispose of it while the company saves that fee and gets a tax write off

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    no obviously not that's not how tax deductions work

    similarly to how i'm against corporations being able to donate to politicians, i'd be against corporations being able to donate in such a way that they could influence the school syllabus even if it literally cost them more than the recipient got

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