• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      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.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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      18 days ago

      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.

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    18 days ago

    more like:

    name of bill: “America the Wonderful and Beautiful”

    text in bill: “rat poison now mandatory on tap water”

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      I don’t think that’s it. Have you been on Twitter lately? Every decision he makes is followed by skews of pundits explaining why it’s actually a genius move and how what he’s doing is actually awesome, and without a thought the GOP supporters just eat it up. It’s absolutely nuts. I barely even see anybody pissed about the Epstein files anymore. The only people who supported him that don’t anymore seem to be the supernazis who consider him to be a puppet of Israel and “the Jews.” It’s absolutely fucked.

    • TooManyFoods@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      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.

  • 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

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      18 days ago

      Why can’t a leftist candidate do that? What’s the secret sauce? Is it violence, or the threat of violence?

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        It would be easy like this

        I will make healthcare free for everyone! We’re going to have the best healthcare in the world and billionaires are going to pay for it!

        I’m going to start a federal drug program! We’re going to have the cheapest drugs in the world and no-one will have to decide between rent and their medication!

        I’m going to start a national Give Parents Freedom Act, where we will provide free daycare for any parent making under 100k/year! We will pay for it by cutting the military budget by 1%!

        In my first 100 days I’m going to sign the mothers are awsome executive order mandating 1 year of maternity leave for mothers and 3 months for fathers. Employers will not be allowed to fire any new parent.

        I’m also going to divert ICE money into a new consumer agency called “IYCIWFYU” (If you collude I will fuck you up) their entire mission will be to investigate corporations that are price fixing and stealing money from the people.

        I’m going to make digital Tax filing FREE for everyone and divert all IRS investigations into people making over 5 million per year!

        Instead we get

        I’ll try to pass a bipartisan bill to maybe fix some roads… 🤷I don’t know… We’ll see what Republicans let me do 😢

        • Sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works
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          I don’t think this is the whole secret because that’s basically what our left party in Germany is doing and they’re at 11 % in polls…

          People are looking for an enemy image onto which they can project their frustration, and they are not willing to target the wealthy class because they irrationally hope to belong to it someday. Instead, they direct their frustration against the poorer and weaker, as it is much easier to distinguish oneself from a group that one definitely does not want to belong to.

          This is class struggle from above…