this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2023
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Poor people can't afford lawyers to fight back.

Rich people can.

~~Ergot~~ Ergo, they aim at poor people way more often.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Pentagon is not some rich dude with lawyers.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The military also doesn't make any revenue probably.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Oh it does, just for private entities.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah not my fault its a badly considered meme.

I was just responding to the second half.

The IRS isn't in charge of auditing the Pentagon, congress is.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ergot, they aim at poor people way more often.

Or 99.9% of people are poor lol.

Besides, thank you Biden.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/11/09/irs-uses-funding-to-audit-wealthy/71486513007/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The IRS can audit the ultra wealthy exclusively and it still wont really change how fucked taxes are in the US. The tax brackets are a fucking wreck, capital gains is a joke, and estate tax is basically non existent.

It's like cheering for Biden for really sticking it to those rich folk when he's just checking their couch for quarters.

[–] EatYouWell 5 points 1 year ago

We really just need a corporate revenue tax. Any other method of taxing the ultra wealthy will be abused so that the ultra wealthy are the only ones not paying it

[–] blanketswithsmallpox 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ah true, guess we better do nothing rather than search for billion dollar quarters in the trillionaire holding elite class.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's what I am saying, this is nothing and we shouldn't be celebrating nothing. It's not like they fixed the Trump admin's tax changes, it's not like they're taxing the wealthy more.

To do more than nothing takes an act of Congress and they're not doing anything, they're doing nothing. This is the legal equivalent of 4th grade graduation ceremonies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure what grain fungus has to do with it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago