Students in Massachusetts will get free lunch and breakfast at school thanks to a new 4% tax put on people who earn more than $1 million.

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    Unless you’re Waukesha, Wisconsin, where they specifically voted to stop giving kids handouts (i.e. free lunch). Because, you know, kids should work for their food or something instead of using their energy to learn.

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      probably the same people that say abortion is murdering kids…

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        Of course it is. But you know, kids lives only really matter up until they are born. At that point the kids, their parents and their livelihoods and happiness…all that can fuck right off.

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          They’re talking about the fundamentals of life. A heartbeat basically. These people don’t care about emotions and health quality let alone quality of life. At the end of the day these fundamentalists are useful idiots for the rich. As long as there’s enough of ‘em to pay more taxes so there can be more bailouts and transfers of wealth to the private sector under the threat of economic and societal collapse.

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      kids just don’t want to work anymore these days. they’re too busy with their avocados and ipad games. meanwhile the child unemployment rates are at historical highs. won’t someone think of the economy?

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      “It’s about time these kids had some skin in the game!”

      -Some Republican Somewhere I’m sure.

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      Waukesha County is by far the most conservative in the state, and has been playing a massive role in destroying our state’s democratic process for a few decades now.

      Another fun fact about it is that they’ve been trying for years to glom onto the Lake Michigan watershed, which, geographically, it is not a part of. They want to straight up take our water, which they do not need, in exchange for nothing whatsoever of any real value.

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        Yeah it’s a cesspool that way.

        I live in the mke area and when looking for housing Waukesha was a tempting area because of how much more house you can get for the money, but I just don’t think I can handle living there. Not to mention I want my kids going to schools in a community that gives a shit about kids and their education.