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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Socialism works great, until you run out of other peoples money. [/quote]

The poor in this country pay more in taxes than the wealthiest. I believe we learned that during the investigation into Trump's taxes. Taking care of people when they put into the system is not socialism, it's called advancement & effectiveness. [/quote]

Your attempts to divert a conversation about serious violent crime issues in DC makes you an enabler. This is not a thread about taxes or the bronze dude. Try harder to stay on topic or start your own thread. [/quote]

Poverty and over-taxing is directly related to crime. When you have a group of people continuously being oppressed, you can expect them to return the favor through crime.

-DC just started investing in rebuilding the schools and its curriculum in the past 20 years. Prior to that, District schools were underfunded and the buildings were falling apart, who can learn or be encouraged in such conditions? (Teachers were unqualified, inadequate textbooks and curriculum, understaffed schools) And no, I don't care what immigrants do in other countries.

-DC also took forever to rebuild communities after the riots. Many rioters were outsiders during the 60s and 70s.

-Prior to Marion Barry, DC routinely refused to hire African Americans into government jobs so that they could move up the economic ladder. You had to take a civil exam, but how could one pass if your school did not have resources for textbooks and an adequate curriculum?

- Lead poisoning has been found in DC water and places where lower-income people reside affecting brain development.

-The minimum wage in the 90s was about $4 or $5, who can survive from basic wage theft by largely a capitalistic system?

- Prior to the summer youth employment program and other such programs, many poor were left without hope. Desperate people, take desperate measures.

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This is straight up BS. It is extremely racist and classist to link poverty to crime.

It's also dumb. Look upthread to how crime is plummeting in nearby. Baltimore.

Off to your DSA meeting now. Loon. [/quote]

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