One of my former classmates posted one of those “teach your kids about taxes, pay them ten bucks to clean, take back seven of it, and give it to the neighbor kid for doing nothing.” Based on his posting history (and what I saw when we were in high school together), I highly doubt that this was meant to be commentary against the billionaire class.
I typed out the following meaning to post it as a comment on his post, but I thought maybe others would find benefit from it as well. It’s not super well-written and I’m using “man” here to refer specifically to my former classmate (so don’t @ me, bros, not all men, yadda yadda yadda). Anyway, here is what I wanted to comment:
Teach a man about taxes: Pay him ten dollars to clean, let him keep it, and then tell him to fix the road himself when he bitches about the pothole at the end of the street.
Teach a man about taxes: Pay him ten dollars to clean, let him keep it, and tell him to build his own damn electrical grid when his power gets shut off.
Teach a man about taxes: Pay him ten dollars to clean, let him keep it, and then tell him to dig his own well and manually pump his own water when he complains about the tap water smelling funny.
Teach a man about taxes: Pay him ten dollars to clean, let him keep it, and tell him to shut up and learn to like the taste when he finds fecal matter in the tube of ground beef he bought at the store.
Teach a man about taxes: Pay him ten dollars to clean, let him keep it, and then tell him to just shut up and die when the medicine he was told would treat his infection out to be just hard-pressed arsenic and sawdust.
Teach a man about taxes: Pay him ten dollars to clean, let him keep it, and tell him to stay home and educate his own damn kids when he bitches that they aren’t learning anything in school. Speaking of which…
Teach a man about taxes so that he doesn’t post ignorant shit like this, proving that he has no idea what taxes actually do… except in this case I know you already learned about taxes and what they are for because I sat in the same classrooms you did. Maybe you should have actually paid attention.