Cutting money to the only government agency that can actually turn a decent profit, in order to save money. How very republican.
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USPS ~~turns~~ might turn a profit now that the ridiculous rules that republicans put in to try to bankrupt it have been revoked.
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Hmm, I wonder if we could make a public business for auditing, and work with the IRS. Full transparency and stuff maybe. I don't know how much work this is, but apparently there's a bucket of money to be made for getting it back, just make it a percent amount of recovered funds?
Open to thoughts, or if this already exists - let me know.
Anyone who makes $100,000 (gross) in wages, or less should not have to pay Federal taxes. Wealthy corporations, citizens, and all churches should be paying their fair share of all taxes.
Churches should get tax deduction for money spent on real charity, however they should pay taxes on money received and spent on everything else - looking at those mansion homes, expensive cars and private jets.
Churches should get tax deduction for money spent on real charity
As long as this shit is actually audited, because they 1000% will cheat on this.
It would be interesting to see what happened if we banned tax deductions for all charities.
We donate ~560 billion dollars annually.
Note we believe it only would take about 20-30 billion to house every homeless person in America.
So how is that 5% of our donations can solve homelessness... Yet we pay 20x that and people are still homeless?
Corruption you say... All the way up
"But anti women's choice billboards IS charity!"
Ugh, fuck these shitters.
Tax churches and suddenly charity might not be required after all....
I'd argue $1m or less and increase capital gains taxes.
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To avoid the debt getting too large, let's stop funding the agency that brings in the most income.
It’s because the rich are being taxed. They have to do something about it
It’s because the rich are being ~~taxed~~ audited. They have to do something about it
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So, Republicans are no-so-quietly saying that everyone should cheat on their taxes, or is this just for the rich?
Always just for the rich. When they reduce IRS funding, they audit low hanging fruit because it's much cheaper
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Couldn't have been accomplished without democrats
The party super concerned about the debt is also the one who wants to defund their only source of income. Brilliant.
They feign concern about the national debt. For my entire lifetime they’ve done nothing but run up the debt.
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Not Republicans. Congress did. The bill only passed because of a bipartisan vote.
As if by design...
Realize the new tactic, trump admin will have the group of secondary goons fighting in public over multiple concepts, they'll wait to see where public sentiment falls (or more likely how the money feels), and then trump will jump on the bandwagon and "punish" the face of the "losing" side as if he was for the "winning" side all along.
In the meantime, heritage foundation directed gop will use every second of the distraction to quietly pass bad law.
Examples:
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they just quietly defunded the department that tracks and reports on foreign propaganda efforts after musk just attacked it publicly link
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And they just gutted $20b from the IRS that could be used to audit millionaires and billionaires - the IRS famously brings in more money for every dollar funded into the service link
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