Is there a grammatical reason for people saying “I pay my taxes” instead “I pay the taxes”?

      • AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        18 hours ago

        you usually go in debt financially from spending on things you actually use

        eg: I am in debt regarding to my house, I still have a few years of loan to pay. I was in debt regarding to my car. I am in debt for the camera gear I bought on a 4 month spread.

        I do not get to use 90% of the shit my taxes go to. Vast majority of it go to other people, the military, and subsidies for rich people. That’s not a debt, that’s an involutary charity.

        I don’t mind the concept of taxes, as I understand why they exist. I just wished they weren’t mostly used to build bombs and make rich people richer.

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          17 hours ago

          “Hey, can we give each homeless person $2000? It’ll pull 90% of them out of poverty. Then they’ll become contributors to the tax pool!”

          “No, I’d rather spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on hostile architecture and hostile police. Also we pay jails to house and feed them.”

    • Jeena@piefed.jeena.net
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      19 hours ago

      Interesting, I’ve never seen the tax part of the money which I’m getting as “my” money, I’m just a steward who takes it and moves it to the owner, I just hold them for practical reasons so that it’s easier to administer it (otherwise you’d need a parallel way of doing it).