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‘School Never Taught Us About Taxes,' Says Woman Who Wouldn’t Remember It Even If They Had (reductress.com)
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[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

I do volunteer work in schools and have a unit focused on taxes. It's always funny to see little 2nd graders go "wait, I don't get to keep all of my money?!"

But then we do explain that taxes pay for important stuff, like the school we're in and their teacher's salary.

[-] Drusas@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, but once you get them a few years older, you need to start explaining the less useful things taxes go into and how divisive the entire topic is.

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