Can imagine making 30 k a year and having to pay even 1600 in taxes. This is saying it will increase that much.
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America, the home of enshittifiction!
Is this per household?
Solution: stop paying taxes.
I just started doing this for federal, not state, and I'm curious what happens.
I'll probably owe a little extra fee at EOY, but I'm not worried about that. They'll have to ask me for this money.
And then I'll probably try and get a payment plan. Just deny and delay as long as I can.
Because why not?
Breaking News: trump signs into law 200% sales tax
These people have to live somewhere. Why is nobody killing them?
Americans are brainwashed with an ideology of nonviolence
The population has been made isolated at the community level. There are very few local groups doing any reaction at all to this.
And violent reactions which are successful are a group action; it’s very seldom an individual, in any era of history, changed the politics by themselves.
And as long as there are no impromptu gatherings of significant frequency, there will be very little violence.
The internet is not a replacement for community driven change which powers all social and political movements, peaceful or not.
The turning point, if there is one, will be lots of local meetings by the thousands , and not until then. No matter how violent or passive the individuals be
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Maybe it’s because we’re not animals. Had half of this country been educated enough to see what was coming- we wouldn’t be in this mess. Violence will only make it worse.
strange though that rich educated billionaires are fine using violence through the state to oppress citizens
Yeah, I forgot how this country became liberated in the first place.
BULLSHIT
IMAGINE GIVING A FUCK ABOUT $36K WHEN YOU MAKE NEARLY $1 MILLION / YR!!!
Imagine not pursuing all your hobbies and instead opressing minorities and waging war all around the world when you make 100 billion a year. First person to say that is elons interest, and that's valid, can stand in line behind him at the guillotine.
If I had that kind of money, you'd never hear about me again. I'd just stay quiet and fund a whole lot of charities and scholarships.
You would never get that rich in the first place because you aren't a sociopath.
I mean... you could win a lottery...
low odds but still... 😉
Afraid there's no 100 billion annually cash for life lottery . . . Even if there was a 100 million per year prize, youd need to live for 1000 more years to accumulate 100bn. So, sociopathy (together with nepotism and luck) seems like the only viable path...
Don't worry. It'll trickle down... eventually... The cash might be a bit red though... /j
I feel like these chuds don't know the difference between trickle and dangle.
This is dangle down economics, where the less well off are dependent on voluntary charity from the better off.
I love basically losing a month of my income when we're already barely getting by. Fuck this fucking shithead administration to hell with a rusty whisk.
Why don’t we just charge the homeless infinite tax money to support the government?
good luck, do you need any pitchforks or are you bringing your own
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Also you gotta factor in inflation caused by the injection of $4.5 trillion of additional rich guy wealth into the economy. So even a lot of people making over $300k are probably going to be losing out after you factor in inflation caused by others getting more.
If everyone collectively stopped paying taxes, this problem gets fixed pretty easily. As it is, I have no plans to pay any more into the Dipshit in Chief fund from this moment forward.
America will get my money when America can show that it can be responsible with it.
They can add a 200% sales tax.
What are you gonna do? Grow your own food?
This CAN work for a time but eventually they will catch up with you. I know quite a few people that stopped paying, only to get surprised by the IRS years later and owe back taxes, fines and interests. They can make your life hell, put liens on your home, garnish your wages, all kinds of special tortures. If you are serious about this, no joke, I recommend leaving the country and planning on never returning.
But if EVERYONE stopped paying….
Sure, just like if everyone voted Democrat you wouldn't have this problem. If you manage to convince everyone not to pay taxes, I'll be extremely impressed.
For 30k, one expected to pay 7500/yr taxes, although usually that was diverted by the employer and not noticed as much (other than the standard "why is my pay 465/wk instead of 576/wk?" question).
This would knock the takehome down by ~$30/wk due to the increased withholding by the employer to cover that 1500.
And when we look at it from our comfy warm homes, it doesn't seem like a lot. But, I can confirm from when I was working 3 jobs to support a university habit, that $30 was fucking crushing. I think that's 2 days a week of food, when every penny is bled out of you already.
Wanna bet the GqP is looking at it like $30 is nothing, like they're just skipping the appetizer at the clubhouse one day a week?
Don't be silly. 30 is not even on the gop radar. No way they're skipping an appetizer over it
The 'Food Web' of this civilization and many others on this planet make absolutely no fucking sense its morbidly hilarious.
what if we all just don't pay taxes
200% sales tax
If you shoplift, pigs shoot you on sight and get a paid vacation.
I mean, they're planning to gut the IRS so who would be able to come after us 🤷♀️
Gutting of the IRS is only going to impact the massive headcount needed to go after tge billionaires. They’ll still have plenty of people for the poor people.
This is what no one gets... they already avoided most rich tax frauds cause it was too expensive to fight them in court... getting poor folk is easy.
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