Conspiracies

[randylahey]

IRS is useless. Get rid of 95% of them and then simply the tax code. It's huge waste of resources.

I understand people being more worried about covid than me, and wanting to take a different approach to it. I dont agree with it, but I at least understand where they are coming from.

Defending the IRS??? That is a new low. Scum of the earth lol. Youve been beaten in an obedient slave of big government if you can honestly defend that

[StayCurious]

For those on here who have actually been audited, it's one of the most annoying things. It's a huge waste of time. In the end, it comes down to what the IRS believes and little to do with "rules". As Gene Hackman said in the The Firm, "It's a game. We teach the rich how to play it to stay rich." Normal people do not have attorneys to play the game.

[StayCurious]

Also, let's put those 87,000 IRS people to something productive. Let's put them on a farm in Kansas. That would be far better for everyone.

[randylahey]

[randylahey]

410 million for border security of other nations. But none for our own. Makes sense. Yes let's give the irs more money

[randylahey]

200 million for gender equity what in the actual fuck

[StayCurious]

"$3 million for LBGTQ Museum in NY".

[StayCurious]

And what is "gender equity and equality fund"? They implying women cannot succeed without extra help? I would be offended if I was a woman.

[jfish26]

Being worried about covid is one thing, I know there is good intent.

But now some of you are irs apologists? Whyyyyy.. you ought to be ashamed of yourselves lol. Our government is so insanely financially irresponsible. Trillion dollar spending bills being drawn up every year, sending billions and billions of dollars overseas. How can anyone defend the need for an enhanced irs in this country

I'm far from an IRS apologist. Our tax code is too complicated by several orders of magnitude. But it doesn't take a brain genius to figure out exactly who benefits from the complexity, and who spends a whole lot of money ensuring that things remain byzantine and complex.

[randylahey]

I'm for a simple flat tax rate for everyone. Let's say 10%. Whether you make 10 thousand a year or 10 billion. Everyone pays the same simple percentage

[CrimsonNBlue]

I'm . . . simple

This post, lol. Should have stopped here.

[randylahey]

Salmon and bees are crucial for the ecosystems. Those are the only expenses I wouldn't cut from that

[jfish26]

I'm for a simple flat tax rate for everyone. Let's say 10%. Whether you make 10 thousand a year or 10 billion. Everyone pays the same simple percentage

This is, more or less, what middle schoolers (who, being middle schoolers, have the world figured out) say.

[StayCurious]

Middle schoolers have better ideas than many adults. It's complicated because it benefits a few people, as you said. Attorneys like yourself can also benefit from it.

[CrimsonNBlue]

I'm for a simple flat tax rate for everyone. Let's say 10%. Whether you make 10 thousand a year or 10 billion. Everyone pays the same simple percentage

This is, more or less, what middle schoolers (who, being middle schoolers, have the world figured out) say.

So many posts in the off topic board belong in the "I'm 14 and this is deep" subreddit.

[randylahey]

I'm for a simple flat tax rate for everyone. Let's say 10%. Whether you make 10 thousand a year or 10 billion. Everyone pays the same simple percentage

This is, more or less, what middle schoolers (who, being middle schoolers, have the world figured out) say.

Better system than whatever you call our current one. Its just a common example

[ousdahl]

Didn’t a certain candidate for a certain party in a certain election that made it kinda far in the runnings on a platform of little more than “9-9-9….”

[jfish26]

I'm for a simple flat tax rate for everyone. Let's say 10%. Whether you make 10 thousand a year or 10 billion. Everyone pays the same simple percentage

This is, more or less, what middle schoolers (who, being middle schoolers, have the world figured out) say.

So many posts in the off topic board belong in the "I'm 14 and this is deep" subreddit.

You know, it is Winter Break.

That means that, around the country, a whole new generation of parents is meeting its child, "Freshman who comes home from his first semester of college, knowing (having earned a B- in Western Civ I) how the world works."

[CrimsonNBlue]

This is, more or less, what middle schoolers (who, being middle schoolers, have the world figured out) say.

So many posts in the off topic board belong in the "I'm 14 and this is deep" subreddit.

You know, it is Winter Break.

That means that, around the country, a whole new generation of parents is meeting its child, "Freshman who comes home from his first semester of college, knowing (having earned a B- in Western Civ I) how the world works."

And, first semester PSYC 104 turns all those freshmen into licensed therapists ready to diagnose their parents with 9 different mental disorders.

[jfish26]

I'm for a simple flat tax rate for everyone. Let's say 10%. Whether you make 10 thousand a year or 10 billion. Everyone pays the same simple percentage

This is, more or less, what middle schoolers (who, being middle schoolers, have the world figured out) say.

Better system than whatever you call our current one. Its just a common example

Foxbrain is really a marvelous thing, in the "something to be marveled at" sort of way.

What a happy existence it must be to simply block out from your consciousness inconvenient things that you simply do not like. Like, for example, the obvious regressive nature of a flat tax.