So basically he's forcing people to pay extra to a private company to file their fucking taxes.
Can someone please think of the shareholders...?
Let’s go Donnie!!!
There are only three certainties in life (US edition):
Wtf even filing my taxes is taxed
Can we have a tea party
FUCK THIS. I should not have to pay a private company to file my taxes!
That’s freedumb, pal.
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.
Normally I would be easy, but I’m dealing with the federal tax credit for solar. Getting it in under the wire before Trump‘s dumbass cancels the program. Could’ve done it myself with the free site. Probably going to go with a local tax professional now. If I’m gonna spend money, I’d rather go with a local person than giving money to these fucking websites. Their lobbyists got the IRS website taken down in the first place.
Trump supporters have a similar brain structure to moths. they see a light (Trump saying something), doesn't matter what it is or if it's attached to something that'll kill them, they'll flock and rave to it regardless
Why can't a leftist candidate do that? What's the secret sauce? Is it violence, or the threat of violence?
I think the secret sauce is critical thinking. No joke.
Fascism doesn't have to model reality, just knit together a story that confirms underlying biases of the "middle class" without questioning the system that privileged them, but is failing.
Leftists have the advantage in that we can describe exactly why your material conditions are eroding while we are more productive than ever, but for someone who was privileged under capitalism, its easier to believe the system that privileged them is good and just, its just foreigners and minorities who are exploiting them.
We need a fake fascist candidate then who's just owning the libs at every turn.
"We're going to build massive social housing programs and get the homeless of the street,what are ya gonna complain about now, shitlibs?
We're going to close the gender pay gap and raise federal minimum wage to a living standard. Where's your talking points now you fucking commie bastards?!
Oh, that's a nice 'eat the rich' banner you e got there. Well these greedy libtards are going to have to go hungry, because we are eating the rich first! Cry into your government-issued fucking trans flag, theythems!'
Stupid followers that need to be told to hate someone.
Could probably succeed on a "hate the billionaires" ticket, if these people weren't so programmed with capitalism.
We need more Louis Gs.
It’s funny how "someone should murder Trump" would get banned from here, but saying this, which essentially means the same thing, is not
I managed to get to use this last year before Cheeto Mussolini got rid of it. It was simple, straight-forward and free for the basic filings. Of course that fucking twat waffle would get rid of it.
Unfortunately my account never managed to work/register properly. And now it never will. :(
I’m wondering if the open source work that was released can be built out in a way that we could still generate tax forms to send in.
It’d take some effort to make sure it’s following current tax code however:
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.
Thats because Obama fixed an economy a republican had broken, and it took a long time to reverse that. How were things by the end of this cheeto nazi's first term?
Unforgivable to remotely support this pedophile who wants to murder anyone he doesn't like, and this has been known about him for decades. Look at the central park five amd his years of vommentary about his own daughter, all before the first term.
Your dad has zero fucking morals.
I wonder how would MAGA respond to it 🤔
These idiots take their single w2 to the H&R table at Walmart and give them a third of their return. It doesn't affect them.
(I'm making up the third, I have no idea what they charge)
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?
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?
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?
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.
And bail you out for treason?
Israel?
FREE Tax filing is SOCIALISM!
-People who SUPPORT Trump's Government buying a Stake in Intel!
If you support Free Tax Filing then you must support the Unconstitutional Anti-American Income Tax.
The Founding Fathers made a blood pact to NEVER do an income tax and ONLY raise money via Tariffs, which is the perfect and Godly way to generate tax revenues. Every president who has ever levied a national income tax has FAILED. And Trump isn't going to fail this nation by letting people pay that tax for free.
By abolishing the free filing provision, we are going to come one step closure to guaranteeing nobody (earning more than $500k/year) has to pay it again.
Oh there's still "IRS Free File", which is a different thing where you have to go through a middle man to get it while they try their damndest to "upgrade" you to the paid version. And presumably they got some kind of money from the US gov either way.
Direct File was a sane program that cut them out and let people file their taxes completely directly. The leeches lobbied against it.
more like:
name of bill: "America the Wonderful and Beautiful"
text in bill: "rat poison now mandatory on tap water"
There's still "IRS Free File", which is a different thing where you have to go through a middle man to get it while they try their damndest to "upgrade" you to the paid version. And presumably they got some kind of money from the US gov either way.
Direct File was a sane program that cut them out and let people file their taxes completely directly. The leeches lobbied against it.
Sigh. I used Direct File last year and it was great. Back to FreeTaxUSA I guess. The least shitty option I'm aware of.
You can still use free fillable forms, you can fill out the raw tax forms yourself online and can submit them online there. Not the best UI, it's literally just the forms, but you cut out the middle man so they don't get more money to lobby congress to keep this dumb system going. It's also free if you make more then $85,000 , which alot of the "free" software isn't.
I've always just got the forms from the IRS site and mailed them in. If they're going to make me work for it, I'll make them work too.
Freetaxusa is the GOAT for filing. Have all my shit saved on a NAS and it's so easy.
When admitting, even to yourself, that you were wrong/duped feels worse than just dying, lol.
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.
I doubt Trump has ever paid tax in his life
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.
intuit, and HR BLOCK have been lobbying forever to prevent it, they succeeded.
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...
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?
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