“We’re watching the collapse of the basic compact between the US government and its citizens….” I believe the systemic corruption that allows the wasteful and sometimes criminal spending of our tax money already destroyed that relationship. I have a small business. I paid out the equivalent of 1/3 of wages in taxes in this payroll. For what? Where does that go? Climate scams and friends funding friends. Trans nonsense and child mutilation. Sesame Street for foreign countries. Meanwhile my staff, which includes a 76 year old woman who has earned a retirement but has to work, show up every day in hopes of growing this business to the point where they can have a stable future. This collapse was inevitable. The whole system is collapsing. Trump is not the cause, but he happens to be in office while the pieces are falling. I’m sick of paying to criminals, corruption, and for things no one NEEDS.
This was a (unintentionally) a very encouraging read! The so-called "inflation reduction act" added IRS agents. Lovely to see the BBB cutting the dread IRS. Taxation is theft. Hobbling theft can only be a good thing!
“These are not just employees—they're walking encyclopedias of tax law, audit techniques, and institutional knowledge”… all the more reason to replace them, IMO.
The idea of maintaining corporate knowledge is the basis of the civilian workforce in DOD. The trouble with this idea is that it creates and sustains the Deep State. It is mostly nameless bureaucrats who make up the Beast, the criminals selected to lead them only makes minor changes and then they’re gone. The Beast puts it all right back where it was. The point being, draining the swamp means getting rid of certain career bureaucrats.
A lot of this could be made much simpler if the IRS would provide taxpayers with online forms with information already available in them that the IRS has.
Right now, many people spend time or pay others to spend time copying numbers from forms from banks etc into the tax forms, even though that information is already sent to the IRS.
This is a lot of wasted time.
For many people, this would drastically streamline their tax preparation and also perhaps streamline with the irs has to check, not sure? Right now they wait for you to file and then check if what you fill in for many entires is the number they already have. Waste of lots of time!
“We’re watching the collapse of the basic compact between the US government and its citizens….” I believe the systemic corruption that allows the wasteful and sometimes criminal spending of our tax money already destroyed that relationship. I have a small business. I paid out the equivalent of 1/3 of wages in taxes in this payroll. For what? Where does that go? Climate scams and friends funding friends. Trans nonsense and child mutilation. Sesame Street for foreign countries. Meanwhile my staff, which includes a 76 year old woman who has earned a retirement but has to work, show up every day in hopes of growing this business to the point where they can have a stable future. This collapse was inevitable. The whole system is collapsing. Trump is not the cause, but he happens to be in office while the pieces are falling. I’m sick of paying to criminals, corruption, and for things no one NEEDS.
I share a lot of your anger every time I think about where our tax dollars are squandered without consequence
Taxation is theft.
This was a (unintentionally) a very encouraging read! The so-called "inflation reduction act" added IRS agents. Lovely to see the BBB cutting the dread IRS. Taxation is theft. Hobbling theft can only be a good thing!
“These are not just employees—they're walking encyclopedias of tax law, audit techniques, and institutional knowledge”… all the more reason to replace them, IMO.
The idea of maintaining corporate knowledge is the basis of the civilian workforce in DOD. The trouble with this idea is that it creates and sustains the Deep State. It is mostly nameless bureaucrats who make up the Beast, the criminals selected to lead them only makes minor changes and then they’re gone. The Beast puts it all right back where it was. The point being, draining the swamp means getting rid of certain career bureaucrats.
In a sense, all government employees are dead money...so I read somewhere..!
There are ways to not have a tax liability. Just takes some investigation.
A lot of this could be made much simpler if the IRS would provide taxpayers with online forms with information already available in them that the IRS has.
Right now, many people spend time or pay others to spend time copying numbers from forms from banks etc into the tax forms, even though that information is already sent to the IRS.
This is a lot of wasted time.
For many people, this would drastically streamline their tax preparation and also perhaps streamline with the irs has to check, not sure? Right now they wait for you to file and then check if what you fill in for many entires is the number they already have. Waste of lots of time!
I'm in shock. You actually criticized something caused by the Trump Whitehouse? Isn't there some way you can blame it on trans people?