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

  • Scratch@sh.itjust.works
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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.”