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I cannot think of even but one single thing that Donald Trump has done to benefit the working class. Not even a single thing, no matter how small or petty.
He's getting rid of the Mexicans taking their job...
The jobs that none of them want to do in the first place...
For wages none of them would accept...
Wait...
See, for me this line of thinking is troublesome. It implies we have to or should rely on the exploitation of desperate people willing to work for pennies on the dollar because they have no legal recourse.
Fuck ICE, this administration, and everything else that's going on but let's not normalize the exploitation of desperate people to keep the machine churning.
So advocate for better wages for them. I bet even at $20/hr you would struggle to get an American to do the job.
Getting rid of them only creates problems.
Torturing them on the way out, is just evil.
Yeah, I'll do it for a living wage, which if I recall correctly is more than that where I live.
Oh I'm not implying that's a good thing at all... Thats what the MAGAts seem to believe, they just never get to that last word there, never get to the realization point.
I'd prefer we get rid of the CEOs that are giving our jobs away.
Some of them burned a few calories standing up from the couch and walking into the polling station to vote. They've burned through more savings to pay for groceries and everything else because of all the trumpflation in both terms, but they at least burned off most of a French fry.
He killed NAFTA, which was good for Mexican workers (NAFTA exploited Mexican labor)
I don't even think America is about us. Republican or Democrat I honestly think we are played out. It's basically a repetitive good cop bad cop lifestyle.
People should remember what real humanity is and live for that more and America less.
For now, the good cop team wants me to have documents that will let me leave the country. The bad cop team is denying me a passport.
Banned those harmful artificial food dyes.
Aaand that's about it.
"Harmful"
I prefer my substance control to be based on evidence, not vibes.
Has that actually happened though? I thought they were just talking about doing it.
I have no idea why anyone would ever think Donald Trump of all people would ever want to do that.
He doesn't need to because that's not what his supporters want. They want racism and hatred and that's what he provides.
You just knew when these assholes kept using obviously-coordinated terms like "waste, fraud and abuse" and kept parroting phrases like that when Elon was doing stupid shit like waving around a chainsaw while in a k-hole, that this is the kind of thing they are talking about.
Of course, this saved americans money. The only thing they like doing more than starving poor Americans, is making people pay more for shit so their corporate owners make money.
Thanks Intuit. Absolutely not using TurboTax ever again since I learned they lobbied to maintain the complicated tax code so they get to keep selling their software.
If your taxes are too complicated for a 1040ez you're best off finding a local tax accountant.
That effort is what finally pushed me to the super sketchy-sounding freetaxusa. Its actually been great for the last few years - easier than TurboTax and cheaper
This didn’t happen overnight. For over 20 years, Intuit has fought tooth and nail to stop Americans from having a truly free, government-run tax filing system. Back in the early 2000s, they lobbied Congress and cut a deal with the IRS. They were promising to offer a “Free File” option so the government wouldn’t build its own system. Then they turned around and buried that option so deep most people never found it, even using code to hide it from Google.
When people did try to file for free, they were steered into paid versions with deceptive “free, free, free” ads. They were so deceptive that Intuit had to pay $141 million in settlements. Now, after decades of manipulation, Direct File is being terminated. This is exactly what they’ve wanted all along. It’s the result of relentless lobbying, lies, and corporate greed, all to keep Americans paying for something that should have been free from the start.
Agreed. Probably for most filers, the IRS (and state governments) could just automatically do the work. They already have most of or all of the data. The idea that you have to pay some no-value-add middleman for the "privilege" of filing your taxes is crazy.
For people that have more complicated scenarios, and are trying to take every single deduction, have to hire a CPA and so on...that's maybe where these middlemen provide something of value.
Gov could do this, like most other countries. Send a card to the person saying this is what you owe, if you agree just sign.
Instead we get the gov saying 'we know what you owe, lets see if you can figure it out too. And if youre wrong, you owe us more.'
Could not agree more. It's so ridiculous. There might have been a time where it made sense, maybe before computers came along? Maybe in the 1940s or 1950s?
I DONT Understand why Voters REJECTED this at the Polls last night!
Maybe this is a "whoosh", but this is something the IRS (under Trump) decided to do. So no voting was directly involved.
We should file all of our taxes ourselves through the paper option. No digital taxes this year. It's not that hard if all you have is a W2, it takes longer but it also will mean you file for free and more importantly takes the government longer to process it. You can get the papers for free from the library.
Throw dirt into the gears.
sounds like that just means its longer between when I send it and when I get that big refund check
A bigger check because you're not paying a company to do something you can do for free.
Plus with the way things are going it'll be delayed anyway
I think most people that get w2s can use the money and that’s how they get em.
I do. And if your situation doesn't change much from year to year, it isn't horrible. For complex situations you're fucked, but you can't do complex filing for free anyway.
Blue States should use this as an opportunity to create an open-source tax filing coalition. That way, if they need to prevent taxes from reaching the feddies or want to secede, some of the infrastructure would already be in place.
Also, it would just be nice to get tax filing done without hassle.
You guys need to stop thinking that states have any control over how much money gets sent to the IRS. Federal taxes are paid directly to the federal government by individuals and businesses, they're not collected by the states and sent on to the feds. States have no mechanism to stop sending money to the IRS, because the state itself isn't the entity that sends money in the first place.
This ignores reality. When you boil it down, a government's legitimacy is measured in whether people are willing to do something. A something can include refusing taxation, or setting up the means to redirect it into more deserving hands.
Your argument is questionable, because it denies history. America as we knew it, was founded on the principal of rejecting a king's will.
There's a lot of "that can't happen" that actually been happening lately.
Why can't this be one of those things
Why, because fuck you and yours.
Because the tax preparation companies paid them a lot of money.
The Trump Administration: Fuck you America. Eat shit and worship me.
Well funk. I used this the first time last year. Every year prior I got ass fucked by intuit. I guess this year I'm going back to papers and mailing it.
Plugging freetaxusa, I've used it for ~4 years. Only cost is ~15 for state taxes. If you used the free file option chances are freetaxusa won't have any issues with your taxes
I've used it the last 4 years, it's as easy as TurboTax and way cheaper
Another comment for freetaxusa. The name sounds like a scam for boomers, but it's legit and good.
Really?
Trump was reached for comment, and he shared "because fuck you" as the reason.
I think he'd be more likely to say "what are taxes?"
Does this mean we don't have to pay taxes?
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