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Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:21 am
by randylahey
StayCurious wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:19 am
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
Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:26 am
by 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.
Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:28 am
by 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.
Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:31 am
by randylahey
Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:31 am
by randylahey
410 million for border security of other nations. But none for our own. Makes sense. Yes let's give the irs more money
Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:32 am
by randylahey
200 million for gender equity what in the actual fuck
Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:33 am
by StayCurious
"$3 million for LBGTQ Museum in NY".
Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:34 am
by 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.
Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:35 am
by jfish26
randylahey wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:17 am
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.
Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:38 am
by 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
Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:39 am
by CrimsonNBlue
randylahey wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:38 amI'm . . . simple
This post, lol. Should have stopped here.
Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:40 am
by randylahey
Salmon and bees are crucial for the ecosystems. Those are the only expenses I wouldn't cut from that
Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:41 am
by jfish26
randylahey wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:38 am
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.
Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:43 am
by 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.
Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:44 am
by CrimsonNBlue
jfish26 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:41 am
randylahey wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:38 am
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.
Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:45 am
by randylahey
jfish26 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:41 am
randylahey wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:38 am
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
Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:46 am
by 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….”
Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:52 am
by jfish26
CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:44 am
jfish26 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:41 am
randylahey wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:38 am
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."
Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:58 am
by CrimsonNBlue
jfish26 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:52 am
CrimsonNBlue wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:44 am
jfish26 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:41 am
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.
Re: Conspiracies
Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2022 12:02 pm
by jfish26
randylahey wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:45 am
jfish26 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:41 am
randylahey wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:38 am
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.