• @[email protected]
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    1024 hours ago

    Better to just burn the money; at least you can keep warm that way, maybe cook some hot dogs.

  • @[email protected]
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    231 day ago

    THAT"S NOT EVEN HOW THE FUCKING US DEBT WORKS!!! They owe YOU!! YES YOU!!! that money! You know your fucking income tax?? They are literally borrowing money from you for free and pay you back when you ask for it back with FORMS. You are literally letting them double dip, even TRIPLE dip your shit WITHOUT INTEREST. YOU ARE PAYING GRIFTERS through this dipshitted idea!!! You want to help pay the debt? Buy a fucking bond and let it mature! I’m losing my shit. Fuck this. I’m out. Don’t know where, probably to bed, but I’m out.

    • Possibly linux
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      That is not how that works at all…

      They are in debt because for decades the government kept spending without bringing in tax money to cover it. They borrowed from other countries which creates dept.

      • @[email protected]
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        That is partially correct. The US Debt is a loan composed of marketable and non-marketable treasury securities which includes public debt (what I lost my shit about) and intergovernmental debt (money spent to function as a government). It’s not a credits and debits system like you put money into your checking account to cover an expenditure. The US has been in debt since its founding. It’s not a decades old problem more like a centuries old thing. No country on this planet has zero debt.

        In this post of taking money directly as a “donation” they are hiding the fact congress and the current moron president in charge are absolutely completely irresponsible with dividing up the collected revenue to make the payment on those loans especially with the passing of the “Big Beautiful Bill (shit sandwich)”. They’re redirecting revenue collected into the pockets of billionaires, and their pet projects (OpenAI), while persuading people it’s a boogyman (immigrants, social programs, the weather, etc) causing the massive swelling up of the US Debt. These idiots also use boogyman excuses to steal more money for already funded public programs paid for by you and the supreme court enables it. All three branches are completely fucking us on this deal and they have the audacity to ask for more. This is why I am pissed off.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 day ago

      You are willingly agreeing to pay them that money ahead of time for your ease. It has always been an option to not pay it until filing season.

      • @[email protected]
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        222 hours ago

        This is why you use “withholdings” on your paycheck. It’s really shitty that you have to figure out the sweet spot with that and can totally screw yourself if you do it wrong, but that’s the option we have to not let the government borrow money for free. At least as an individual and not a company. You’re kinda screwed on taxes if you run a small business.

      • plz1
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        11 day ago

        Try telling that to basically any decently sized company.

        • @[email protected]
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          119 hours ago

          Companies don’t deserve the right. They’re not individuals, they don’t even pay enough taxes as it is

          • plz1
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            115 hours ago

            My comment was asking along the lines of companies not giving the employee the choice in having taxes deducted or not.

          • @[email protected]
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            116 hours ago

            Comapnies dont have that right. Companies are required to pay quarterly estimated taxes, and are fined if they are found to have underpaid on those estimates.

  • @[email protected]
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    81 day ago

    I mean, they do have a voting block that regularly donates to televangelists… Those extra private jets have to come from somewhere.

    • Flax
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      I think those donations were from decades ago. Apparently the likes of Copeland’s “church” needs staff to bring boomers to the front so it looks like loads on tv

  • Maple Engineer
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    Wouldn’t it be more effective to make the wealthy and corporations pay tax?

  • @[email protected]
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    So the US tax code is switching to a “Pay what you want” model?

    Rich people: “Switching?”

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      Honestly it would be cool if Americans could choose how their money is used. Have a base tax plus you choose 3 programs out of 10.

      • @[email protected]
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        When I was a kid, I assumed that was how it worked. When I found out it wasn’t, my reaction was something like, “then what even is a democracy?”

  • @[email protected]
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    882 days ago

    I will never help pay down the national debt willingly. The 1% did it, so they can pay it back.

  • @[email protected]
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    452 days ago

    Might as well start a GoFundMe at this point. I heard people nowadays will throw tons of money at fascists.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 day ago

      The news is basically free Only Fans where I get to see Americans get fucked by their government.

    • Jo Miran
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      I heard people nowadays will throw tons of money at fascists.

      I’d gladly drop my entire net worth on Trump and all his cronies heads…as long as I am allowed to convert it all to pennies first.

    • @[email protected]
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      132 days ago

      Except you already pay taxes this is just to bleed the poor dry faster, qnd drip barely anything towards the debt so they can claim the finances are fine, to keep the real government happy, investors.

  • @[email protected]
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    202 days ago

    I want to see who donates. they can’t make something like that and then not let us laugh at whoever does it

      • @[email protected]
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        11 day ago

        sorry, liberul the Child Fucker High Score has no breaks and neither does the national IOU. Excuse me, I have some national park land to go sell

  • @[email protected]
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    162 days ago

    In Bill Lumbergh’s voice: If every American could just chip in $100k that would be greeaat.

  • @[email protected]
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    392 days ago

    I’m pretty sure they’re already getting 30% from my gross. Plus I somehow owe them an additional few grand every year.

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      82 days ago

      Speaking of, anyone else find it funny (read blatantly obvious) that you cant choose a tax amount this year on your W4? Used to be able to select withholding amount, now its just “We’ll figure it out for you”. I bet they were afraid of everyone marking 0 this year.