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I predict a lot of people are going to just not file taxes, and I expect the IRS won't have the resources to do anything about it.
Too bad most of us have already been paying taxes and need to file in order to get a refund.
If the gubment knows what I owe or overpaid, why the fuck do we do our taxes, except to pay a corporation?!
I mean, the point now is just the end of your comment
The super rich are trying to collapse governments and turn society into religio-corpo-city-states where they can be neofeudalist kings where their family line maintains through history no matter how technology changes. No different than kingdoms of the past where it's mostly suffering combined with war, except they've convinced crypto bros and other idiots that they'd be knights in this system and are spending boatloads of money to achieve their goals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
The more popular plan among them seems to be this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy
If you read through it you'll find a lot of the things in project 2025 that came out of nowhere (like taking Canada, Greenland, and Panama) are actually goals of the movement
Oh, and Elon's Grandpa was in the movement, and the heritage foundation was started by the same group
Certainly true to an extent, but I’d argue the biggest supporters of dark enlightenment only see technocracy as a stepping stone and are trying everything to get to the end goal. They don’t want people to be voted into power based on their tech background, they want power exclusively and without challenge.
Musk in the White House, big balls in our tax systems, etc, was all supposed to hop the accelerationism train towards technocracy until it was clear that years and years of paper and software systems spread across thousands of employees are wildly complex and you can’t just throw an alt-right Ivy League grad with unlimited copilot credits to solve the problem.
The US is the most obvious example though, as you mentioned, multiple countries are trying that slow creep into technocracy, but I still see that as blowing money into governments for the super rich in the tech sector getting the power they are craving.
Funny enough in a true technocracy you’d never have musk, bezos, cook, etc in power. They aren’t nearly as smart as the people they employ. But those people who would be in power generally don’t give a fuck about others. They’re the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun of today’s age. They’d pursue their goals regardless of outcome, because technological advancement is all that matters to them
Unfortunately what’s been shown in the past is the less resources the IRS has, the more likely they are to just go after the smallest issues, they can automate and garnish wages on people who don’t have the resources to fight it. Then they just avoid the rich because they don’t have the resources to go up against well paid tax attorneys
If you don't have vehicles to manipulate your assets like the rich, they will need only glance at your papers to see the mistake. The IRS loses money hiring auditors and experts to understand if a business is a business or a charity a charity, those are the common tricks the rich use.
You aren't going to hide what your employer paid to you and how much tax you paid the IRS. Even putting in your IRA or house deductible is easy to automate and thus easy to check.
Cash app has free filing though, would recommend.
If you get paid cash, you will
Have you ever had to glance at millions of papers?