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Jfc
There’s… there’s a tax on taxes??
They might call it something like a convenience fee.
Is he just doing all this through executive orders?
In the trump Reich
Everything is for sale.
Everything
Hooray for the spoils system
I honest to God can’t imagine how fucking cheap the price for them to make it so that people have to use their paid services… which will make them many, many times more than their bribe ever was.
It would be like if you paid me 1 dollar and I did something that would make you 200 or 300 dollars…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
Trump could have held the Saudis up for $50 billion on Inauguration Day 2016. Five minutes with the ambassador and he could have walked away with plenty of loot.
Yosemite Sam could have figured it out.
I don’t you understand who actually controls the petrol-dollar.
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True, but $50 billion wouldn’t break the bank for the Saudis. Moreover, Trump’s recent actions show that he doesn’t really care about anything more than 15 minutes in the future.
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How many private airplanes and yachts do the princes have?
They could cut down to seventeen harems each and still have enough to pay off Trump.
It wouldn’t have to be a lump sum either.
Stock market manipulation or a similar scam would put the same amount in his pocket.
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People keep talking about the American Empire falling.
Be careful what you wish for.
When the USSR fell there was a decade of genocide in Europe, followed by kleptocracy that makes the old KGB look sedate.
The US Navy has about a dozen nuclear aircraft carriers and three times as many nuclear subs.
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Some of this is about accepting bribes. A lot more is simply ideology.
Trump’s people do not believe the IRS should exist and they are trying to dismantle it. DirectFile is just low hanging fruit, intended to make people more frustrated with tax filing and more easy to radicalized in an attempt dismantle and replace with tariffs.
Like, this is a real decades long project that goes way beyond Trump. Abolishing the income tax was Goldwater’s wet dream.
I agree with you that the Project 2025 folks are important, but I’m talking about Trump in particular.
The shoes, the NFTs, and the crypto schemes are all about fleecing his own people.
There was a lottery where the top prize was dinner at the white House with POTUS. They ran it for months and there was never a single winner.
I think he really likes stealing from poor people. Either that or he’s too chicken to go toe to toe with someone who might hit back.
Add to that that Grover Norquist runs an organization called Americans for Tax Reform. GOP politicians all have to sign a pledge with them that they will never vote for a tax increase or for anything to make filing taxes easier.
Supposedly, this is because if taxes are easy to file, Americans won’t hate them enough and it makes it easier for the government to raise taxes. But, it’s awfully convenient that this is exactly what Intuit, H&R Block, etc. all want too.
Hypocrite warmongering Robbie Reich forgets to mention Intuit Inc always pays more than 70% to Dems.
A million dollars is all it takes to buy whatever laws you want? That’s a really good deal for Intuit.
Politicians are cheap, I remember once seeing a list of how much a lobbyist buys support from politicians for and the list was like $5k $2k $3k $6k. It’s ridiculous
It’s much more complicated than that though. The lobbying firms hire people who are former politicians or former senior staffers who have all kinds of contacts all over Washington. Getting those guys on the payroll is extremely expensive.
Then, those lobbyists generally don’t just go off and bribe someone. They build and strengthen relationships. They know all the pain points that the politicians have, and they just make things easier. If a politician’s staffer is having trouble finding a good place to live in DC, the lobbyist knows a guy who knows a guy who can get them a great apartment.
Eventually, the lobbyist isn’t this guy who tries to get the politician to change some laws. He’s basically part of the team. So, when new legislation comes up, the whole team works on it together, including the lobbyist.
The end result is that the $5k or whatever is only the direct contribution to the politician’s re-election campaign or something. Most of the spending is hiring the lobbyist and paying all his/her various expenses that make them indispensable for the politician, so that they can step in at the right time.
They’re cheap because they fully believe in ideologies that screw everybody else. They’re not doing it for the cash but for their god.
That’s affordable. Maybe I’ll buy one
Now you need to save it for your tax filing fees
That’s the number we get to see.
Remember all those (exactly) 1 million dollar “donations” all those CEOs were giving to Trump’s inaugural campaign? Those weren’t donations, they were bribes and kissing of the ring. Pledge loyalty (and pay a small fee) and the government will work for you.
Except if you’re Google or Facebook. Trump will accept your money and still fuck you over. Why anyone trusts him is beyond me.
They don’t trust him, but they don’t want to get on his bad side. They’re basically hoping that he’ll ignore them or forget about them, and focus his attention on his other enemies.
There are a huge swath of self-serving, inwardly thinking, assholes that see themselves in Trump. That’s why they love him. With him leading they can be unabashedly racist and sexist… in other words they get to be themselves.
Politicians get their jobs through an eagerness to bootlick capital.
Well that is just a tip of the iceberg.
What do u think his digital currency was for?
Corpos buy currency, he sells his coin, he does whatever corpos want, done.
Corpos write off as failed investment, Trump gets paid.All digital currencies are for some shit like this - fraud.
every time this comes up i am flabbergasted.
this year was my most complicated tax filing yet since i was involved in a bankruptcy, switched jobs, bought a house, contracted work on the house which was eligible for tax credit, and got an inheritance within the span of a few months. it took me almost 20 minutes to do, which was basically only because the tax agency don’t package their various calculators in the pre-filled form and i had to double-check the credit thing.
it drives me mental, then i hear about “tax month” and i feel it could be worse.
This might be way too personal but did you declare bankruptcy because you were expecting the inheritance? Pretty smart. If your debt was high that’s like free money. It seems this has to be the case if you filed for bankruptcy and then bought a house. Most people who don’t have to file bankruptcy will never afford a house.
no, the company i worked at went bankrupt.
Oh ok that makes far more sense, thanks.
I spent the entirety of apr 15th making fun of my friends for not doing their taxes in feblueberry.
Next year we’re going to be making fun of the people who paid taxes
Pissed I didn’t sign up for a W-4 this year. They’re already taking my money and I’m gonna have to file just in case I get a refund. But next year I’m evading so fucking hard.
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Note: this plan may result in IRS mandated prison time from unpaid taxes
Decreasing the exemptions increases the amount of taxes withheld… For most people your advice as written just means letting the govt keep your tax refund every year.
Unless you’re wealthy enough to afford a bevy of attorneys, they will still go after you.
Shit, they’ll probably start using AI to determine who the easiest targets are (spoiler: it’s always the working class).
The joke might be in there as while AI cannot do your taxes today, we are hopefully not too far off.
I’ll stick to FreeTaxUsa even if they charge me. Fuck Intuit.
