• LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 days ago

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

    -Every single thing the GOP has done this term

      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        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.

        • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          3 days ago

          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.

      • Soup@lemmy.world
        14·
        2 days ago

        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.

          • Jax@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            2 days ago

            Why are you so upset about the USPS? We have private companies that do what it does better.

            If you can’t see the problem with the above statement you need to swallow your tongue.

      • eskimofry@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 days ago

        “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?

      • sobchak@programming.dev
        1·
        2 days ago

        Depends on specifics. I haven’t been able to use the free tier for years. These companies collect all kinds of data from its users too.

    • wildcardology@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      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.

  • expatriado@lemmy.world
    102·
    3 days ago

    more like:

    name of bill: “America the Wonderful and Beautiful”

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

  • _stranger_@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 days ago

    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?

  • Ronno@feddit.nlEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    There are only three certainties in life (US edition):

    • Taxes
    • Filing your taxes
    • Death
    • TooManyFoods@lemmy.world
      19·
      3 days ago

      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.

    • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
      12·
      3 days ago

      I don’t think that’s it. Have you been on Twitter lately? Every decision he makes is followed by skews of pundits explaining why it’s actually a genius move and how what he’s doing is actually awesome, and without a thought the GOP supporters just eat it up. It’s absolutely nuts. I barely even see anybody pissed about the Epstein files anymore. The only people who supported him that don’t anymore seem to be the supernazis who consider him to be a puppet of Israel and “the Jews.” It’s absolutely fucked.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    3 days ago

    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?

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      23·
      3 days ago

      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?

      • Sausager@lemmy.world
        6·
        3 days ago

        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?

        • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          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.

  • Team Teddy@lemmy.world
    24·
    3 days ago

    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.

      • Team Teddy@lemmy.world
        6·
        3 days ago

        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.

        • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          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”

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      13·
      3 days ago

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

      • Team Teddy@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 days ago

        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.

  • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
    21·
    3 days ago

    Fellow non-USians: no they don’t have to pay their government for the privilege of being allowed to file their taxes. “For free” here means “without the help of a tax accountant (and online)”. I was SO SO SO confused.

    Edit: tax adviser? tax agent? some person who knows taxes.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      25·
      3 days ago

      It’s also not as easy as it is in other countries. It seems like most countries the government knows what you owe and you just verify it. In America the government says “we know already, but you have to tell me what you owe. If you’re wrong we’re coming after you.” So it is a bit more complicated for us and since it’s more complicated we use tax prep software or hire tax agents. Some services offer(d) free federal filing and you’d just pay $10-15 for state tax. Now I imagine there’s going to be a feeding frenzy for the online services as their prices are going to increase…

      Trump will do anything and everything to make sure we have to pay some rich fuck…

      • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
        10·
        3 days ago

        Oh I wasn’t dismissing this as a non-issue or anything, it’s clearly bullshit and yet another reason for you to burn cars and billionaires. But I remember when I first heard about this, specifically the “(file) for free” was INCREDIBLY confusing because as ridiculous many, many things the US does may seem to me, (what I understood as) the notion of paying your government a fee to process your taxes was juuust a bit too far out.

        You CAN still do it on your own though, just not online, yeah?

        • Asafum@feddit.nl
          7·
          3 days ago

          Yeah you can definitely still do it on your own it’s just very complicated for anyone who has more than just a job and no investment, property, etc. like a dude with one job who rents an apartment and has nothing else would more than likely have an easy time doing it, the hardest part for them would probably be the mail since no one does physical mail anymore lol

          Edit: shit that just reminds me, I don’t even have a printer!

        • rhymeswithduck@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          3 days ago

          So far, Cashapp is still offering free filing. Feels weird to use it, but it’s worked out fine for the past few years. I refuse to go back to TurboTax and their predatory free-until-its-not pricing.

    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      So you can’t file your taxes online? That’s insane. Muricans need to get rid of this dude asap.

      • Carmakazi@lemmy.world
        11·
        3 days ago

        This has been the status quo for many years. Direct file with the government was released within the last few years, which is what Trump is killing.

        Historically, you’ve had to pay someone like Intuit, H&R Block, or a local tax accountant to walk you through filing. Third parties that will all charge you a couple hundred dollars for the privilege, though the big firms will have online filing. You could also file purely by paper and mail, if you’re a psycho (confident that you won’t make audit-able mistakes).

    • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      i haven’t invested in intuit out of spite (former tax accountant here, the term you’re looking for is tax professional as there are too many worthless certs) but i’m really curious how much krasnov did. now the “easy” way to file in the US is turbotax, which is fine if you know how to answer the (intentionally obtuse) questions, which most people don’t. Now it’ll cost everyone at least $75 unless they raise their prices, which they will.

    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      3 days ago

      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.