• expatriado@lemmy.world
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    more like:

    name of bill: “America the Wonderful and Beautiful”

    text in bill: “rat poison now mandatory on tap water”

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      If you support Free Tax Filing then you must support the Unconstitutional Anti-American Income Tax.

      The Founding Fathers made a blood pact to NEVER do an income tax and ONLY raise money via Tariffs, which is the perfect and Godly way to generate tax revenues. Every president who has ever levied a national income tax has FAILED. And Trump isn’t going to fail this nation by letting people pay that tax for free.

      By abolishing the free filing provision, we are going to come one step closure to guaranteeing nobody (earning more than $500k/year) has to pay it again.

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      Oh there’s still “IRS Free File”, which is a different thing where you have to go through a middle man to get it while they try their damndest to “upgrade” you to the paid version. And presumably they got some kind of money from the US gov either way.

      Direct File was a sane program that cut them out and let people file their taxes completely directly. The leeches lobbied against it.

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      I try not to feel bad when I’m wrong. There is a whole trillion dollar set of apparatuses at work specifically evolved and designed to trick us into falling for it. I don’t judge for being wrong, but for refusing to admit it when it’s so clear it is sometimes flabbergasting. I’ve tried to see what they see to be fair to them, but they believe an election was stolen because somebody walked by a mailbox in Philly. I can’t understand that level of guillibility if someone is willing to admit they are wrong.

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        Taxes are taken out of your checks before you are even paid. This isn’t practical.

        I do have to wonder if everyone stopped paying federal taxes how that would fuck over Trump. Like, would he admit he’s powerless against the numerous? Would he just lie and pretend the money is there? Would he just not pay the bills like he has historically done?

        It’s fun to imagine what he would do facing adversity.

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          taxes are

          Get paid under the table.

          would he just pretend

          Yes. Obviously. Money’s fake anyway. But that would heighten a looooot if contradictions and fracture a lot of coalitions on the right.

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      Well, if you don’t have a complicated tax return, meaning you only have a 9-5 job and no other income streams. You can file it yourself.

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        Except why do private companies handle taxes at all? That’s not their business and the government should be able to handle it all themselves. Take your smugness and shove it.

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        “not forced to use them”

        This ignores obnoxious hurdles in place to make the free tier as shitty as possible so people buy.

        “cover your own ass for mistakes” Well can you personally guarantee that these asshats won’t create traps and gotcha’s along the way?

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    My Dad told me during a ride in his truck that he was voting for Trump again because he lowered prices for things in his first term and thought he’d do it again. Every bit of news I have seen of him since is shit that’s making Dads financial situation worse.

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        I don’t really blame my Dad for it, he’s in a pretty bad spot money-wise. He has to support him, my stepmom, my sister, my two stepsisters PLUS the newborn twins one of them just had, my little brother, my cousin that lives with us, two dogs, a turtle, AND myself whenever I come over. We had so many people living with us at one point he had to set up some new walls and doors in what used to be my little brothers toy room to turn it into two separate bedrooms.

        He voted for Trump entirely because of his belief that if he became president again, we would be as financially stable as we were when he was first president. Back when we could afford going on a camping trip twice a year, back when our fridge was regularly stocked with ingredients to make our own lunches, back when he could afford to buy a whole 200$ game console for my birthday, ect. That hasn’t ended up happening and every time I get a glimpse at the news he’s not any closer to doing that. If my Dad was ever a “Trump supporter” I doubt he is now.

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          HURR DURR MR SNAKE OIL PROMISED TO GIVE ME MONEY

          Fuck’s sake, we just need a Democratic candidate who gives speeches to red states: “I will give all of you five quintillion dollars I am not lying”

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      What prices did he lower? I thought you guys were having a pandemic and that he was riding on Obama’s economy.

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        I wouldn’t know cause I was 12 when he first got elected, too busy playing my PS3 and talking with my friends on Google+ to check the current state of the economy.

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    Anything and everything to hurt Americans.

    Hey guys. If I described to you an entity that did nothing but harm average Americans, would you consider that entity to be an enemy of the United States of America?

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      Yeah, but, hear me out…what if I told you you’re now allowed to be openly racist?

      And openly transphobic? Would that sweeten the pot?

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        That depends, can I cosplay as military and send browns to concentration camps too? For more than I currently make as with a Bachelor’s degree and over 10 years experience?

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          Ew. Unless your bachelor’s is from a for-profit university or a Bible college, that’s going to set you back.

          Best I can do is for you to LARP as a 2A activist. No pay but you get to feel like you’re one of the special ones. At least until we don’t need you anymore.

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        It’s pretty open. Step 1 is make income tax as painful as possible, step 2 is get rid of it in favour of tarrifs and other regressive revenue generating fees. And MAGA was already convinced that progressive taxation helped people they want hurt.

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    There’s still “IRS Free File”, which is a different thing where you have to go through a middle man to get it while they try their damndest to “upgrade” you to the paid version. And presumably they got some kind of money from the US gov either way.

    Direct File was a sane program that cut them out and let people file their taxes completely directly. The leeches lobbied against it.

    Sigh. I used Direct File last year and it was great. Back to FreeTaxUSA I guess. The least shitty option I’m aware of.

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      You can still use free fillable forms, you can fill out the raw tax forms yourself online and can submit them online there. Not the best UI, it’s literally just the forms, but you cut out the middle man so they don’t get more money to lobby congress to keep this dumb system going. It’s also free if you make more then $85,000 , which alot of the “free” software isn’t.

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        I’ve always just got the forms from the IRS site and mailed them in. If they’re going to make me work for it, I’ll make them work too.

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    “Don’t worry about it. If you’re rich, it wont affect you!”

    -Every single thing the GOP has done this term

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    I managed to get to use this last year before Cheeto Mussolini got rid of it. It was simple, straight-forward and free for the basic filings. Of course that fucking twat waffle would get rid of it.

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      Because at least one of:

      You literally cannot imagine any otyer arrangement of human organization. Blame being ground down by The Horrors, the death f humanities education, or just you sucking. Whatever causes it, you can only imagine begging the manchildren in washington to be less mean.

      You think laws are magic spells

      You are afraid of men with guns who are the state. You don’t have enough solidarity with your neighbors to believe you can fight rhem.

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    They’re just going to have a record high number of people not filing their taxes, and I can’t tell if that’s the point?

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    It’s okay guys, because of that bill we saved 0.00005% of federal spending and our tax breaks only increased the deficit by like 2,631.58% resulting in 50 Trillion USD debt by 2032. You’re welcome. /s