Re:IRS will study free tax filing options
by thisarticle on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @10:52PM
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> Rich folks only need so many mansions, yachts and designer sweat pants. This would further shift the burden of taxes onto lower income folks who spend 100% of what they earn.
This is a feature not a bug of that plan. There’s no amount of tax that’s too low when the answer to “How much do you need to be happy?” is more.
Re:IRS will study free tax filing options
by water8 on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @11:59PM
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Well when tax is zero and there is no military to protect your assets thereby making them worthless as they are stolen. So perhaps there is a "too low"
Re:IRS will study free tax filing options
by mangoTangoBango on Thursday August 18, 2022 @12:46AM
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Costa Rica does not have a military (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Force_of_Costa_Rica) and yet there are still assets.
Re:IRS will study free tax filing options
by lern_too_spel on Thursday August 18, 2022 @12:30PM
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Two things:
GP is clearly referring to a police force to protect assets.
Costa Rica's police are used as a military force. https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/20...
Rich folks only need so many mansions, yachts and designer sweat pants. This would further shift the burden of taxes onto lower income folks who spend 100% of what they earn.
The IRS could just present a form behind a login with an itemized fully calculated tax return with an accept? "yes" / "no". They already have all the information they need, and already do the work when checking returns for errors.
Taxes are a pain because both, corporate capture of government by powerful tax preparation companies and also because a certain political ideology wants paying taxes to be as unpleasant as possible to make the concept of taxes as unpopular as possible.