• @[email protected]
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    372 months ago

    IN A MONTH.

    4 years of months left to go.

    Maybe next time people can get off their fat fucking asses and vote. Or, if you did vote, maybe vote more intelligently next go around.

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    So now DOGE has removed all these costs, will Americans not have to pay any taxes anymore? That’s the conservative claim right? That taxes paid for all this stuff and Liberals were taxing everyone super high for it…

    …so now taxes drop to zero for EVERYONE? Right?

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        Only for those willing to risk violating tax law, and by extension mostly people who feel like they can afford enough accountant and lawyer time to evade consequences if they come.

        IRS also publicly said they would only be doing easy enforcement, i.e. only doing audits on lower income people who can’t drag it out and make it expensive.

        So basically giving a green light for the rich and only the rich to keep the money they owe…

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        222 months ago

        oh, they’ll still have to raise taxes on the lower half of earners, strip essential services bare–if they continue to exist at all, and pile on trillions to the national debt for that.

        adding debt is ‘free money’ to them. not like they gotta pay it back…

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          162 months ago

          I enjoyed the “we gotta lower the national debt for our kids” which quickly converted into “we gotta raise the national debt and we’re going to go into more debt” all in the same month.

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      I like taxes like I like my Costco membership. I get a better deal if I go in with others and buy in bulk. Even if I don’t use all the same goods and services as others.

      Getting rid of corruption and grifters siphoning value out of a system is a much better goal than “saving money”

    • @[email protected]
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      182 months ago

      They are planning on replacing income tax with a sales tax via tariffs. I wish I were kidding.

      • SnausagesinaBlanket
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        “They” are also pushing for a cashless society. Having an RFID chip in your hand will get you all your necessities and non participation won’t. Mark my words. If someone told me this a few years ago I would have laughed.

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          52 months ago

          Makes sense why Musk wanted X to become the “everything” app, including for mobile payments.

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            52 months ago

            Seriously where are all the conservative Christians that were so afraid of barcodes. These guys have turned revelations into a check list, but it’s okay because he’s “your” guy?

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              22 months ago

              That’s kind of how the antichrist works. He fools most people into believing he’s a good guy

            • @[email protected]
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              32 months ago

              The conservative Christians I still talk to (that number is getting lower and lower each year) believe Trump is the third coming of Christ and that he cannot do any wrong.

              These people are smart in many other ways except in this area.

              They believe it’s an over reaction. That it’s overblown. It’s fake news.

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                12 months ago

                Wait, did I miss the second coming of Christ?

          • @[email protected]
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            That’s what happens when you have a suicidal death cult trying their damnedest to bring about their version of the end of the world.

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    Again. This is bad journalism. It’s not lost, it’s “lost.”

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      102 months ago

      i don’t understand your point. the article reports that the IRS is being disrupted by DOGE, and as a result, IRS agents are not able to do their jobs properly, which results in less tax money being received

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        That money isn’t lost. That’s my point.

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          Not sure what you mean. Their job is literally to collect money. If you want to play the revenue concept its till lost revenuer. Would you prefer theft by the rich?

          If you owe me money and I don’t get it then its lost. Or you didn’t pay me so you stole money from me. Please give me another example of how its not lost instead of just saying the words. Give me an explanation or an example.

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            I think their argument is that the tax revenue is still owed, whether it’s collected or not. So the IRS could absolutely get back on track post Trump and pursue these unpaid taxes.

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    151 month ago

    This needs to be bigger news on the mainstream channels, but you know it wont be.

    I’m so tired of this shit.

  • doug
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    352 months ago

    Ok, fine, libertarians, you won. I don’t have to pay my taxes now, right?

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      Thats the fun thing with fascist governments, before you’d get a fine and asked to pay back on a payment plan, and maaaybe get jail time if you reaally went out of your way to not pay your taxes year after year.

      Now they can just come get ya in the middle of the night and throw you in jail for any number of reasons, not paying your taxes, being one of them. Oh and then maybe get deported because they took your ID’s and passport and when your family members throw a stink and demand you released because you’re a born and raised US citizen, oops, they can’t find you in the system.

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      12 months ago

      Libertarians will deny Trump is one of them, but Trump/DOGE isthe most relevant they have ever been

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    STUPID Libtards thought DOGE would NOT be Efficient! They lost $500BILLION in ONLY a couple months! THATS efficiency!