In the trump Reich
Everything is for sale.
Everything
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2025
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Is he just doing all this through executive orders?
Hooray for the spoils system
I honest to God can't imagine how fucking cheap the price for them to make it so that people have to use their paid services... which will make them many, many times more than their bribe ever was.
It would be like if you paid me 1 dollar and I did something that would make you 200 or 300 dollars...
I'll stick to FreeTaxUsa even if they charge me. Fuck Intuit.
Go to the HR office at your job and tell them you want to change your W-4. Change your status to exempt and withholding allowances to zero. Then just don't file a tax return anymore. You get more money every month and Trump and his IRS can go fuck themselves.
Note: this plan may result in IRS mandated prison time from unpaid taxes
Unless you're wealthy enough to afford a bevy of attorneys, they will still go after you.
Shit, they'll probably start using AI to determine who the easiest targets are (spoiler: it's always the working class).
Decreasing the exemptions increases the amount of taxes withheld.... For most people your advice as written just means letting the govt keep your tax refund every year.
Put every manager of TurboTax in prison as a traitor.
Crowdfund the airfare to El Salvador?
Or just put a cap on donations and block corporate donations?
that would have been reasonable 20 years ago.
I think people have to understand that we've entered a different era. The rich have gotten richer and become insanely powerful and "the game" has gone on for so long all the rules have been slightly bend to allow them to become more rich and powerful. If you continue to "be sensible" and ask if you may nibble around the edges, all you get is fascism. It's inevitable. So first you have to destroy them and their power, then you can reform the system. Reforming the system now, even if you could, won't do anything.
The joke might be in there as while AI cannot do your taxes today, we are hopefully not too far off.
Funniest part is how they're bribing the government with the money they took from customers. Now they can take more money from customers, which is more money for bribes.
It also means they didn't need to charge customers the prices they charged, since they have enough money to operate their business and bribe politicians.
It's like, you're paying them to work against you.
So backwards, but that's by design. Don't be a useful idiot.
If you know someone who works for one of these companies, you should ostracize them.
Stop giving free passes to people making our society worse.
I mean I feel like it depends on their role in the company. Not everyone has the luxury of choosing the work they do. I know at least a few people who work in billing for a healthcare company that don't want to do that work and understand it's bad but don't really have another choice as they couldn't get any other jobs. I'm not gonna blame someone for working at a bad company unless they're like an executive or other high up person who could take their skills to a different industry.
Then they should do their job exactly as half-assedly as it's possible to do without actually being fired. Steal coffee and creamer from the kitchen. Steal toilet paper. Accidentally deleted System32 on the office computer. Open all file attachments and links in emails. Crop-dust the bosses office. Start office rumours to sow discord and erode company loyalty. Slip and fall on a stair, go on extended paid medical leave. When fired, sue for wrongful termination, crowdfund the legal fees
That's a fair strategy if you actually can organize with other people at your work to do things like that. But it still does rely on having enough stability to get fired and not end up homeless while getting a new job or trying to sue. Crowdfunding can work if you happen to get lucky and your story gets picked up by lots of people, but it can also reach no one and leave you with nothing. So at the end of the day it's gonna come down to organizing, if only there was some kind of organized body of workers you could form to fight policies that are bad for people in general along with being bad for the workers.
Anyone who advocates for ostracizing fellow workers indiscriminately is doing it in order to keep the working class bogged down in endless internal feuds instead of organizing. Solidarity is the only solution.
Solidarity should also involve being united on what work is acceptable and what is not.
This doesn't seem indiscriminate to me. I think we 100% should judge people who work for evil corporations, regardless of what their position is.
Wait, so I wasn't supposed to punch that guy in the janitors uniform in the dick just because he said Intuit (turns out he was saying "into it")?
Turbo tax made 1.6 BILLION in income. And that's not enough. They need to lobby and change the landscape of the countries tax system to generate even more profit on top of the profit they already made.
This isn't capitalism anymore this is something else entirely. It's a metal disorder. A disease.
This isn’t capitalism anymore this is something else entirely.
That's the thing, it is capitalism. It's always been about those who have more exploiting those who have less.
The problem is this generation of workers has been duped into believing that corporate profits are a good thing, rather than an indication of workers getting taken advantage of.
It's all bass-ackwards by design. I stopped trying to find rhyme or reason and just settled on "most people are dumb as shit."
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Not filing is still free.
There's... there's a tax on taxes??
They might call it something like a convenience fee.
That's called bribery in my country. It's disgusting and very prevalent here but at least we don't embellish the idea with polite terminology 😂
Imagine paying to file taxes, lmao
your political system is already based on legalized bribery and this is where you draw the line? lmao. Lobbying has destroyed america for a century.
It was founded on lies and lobbying. Remember “taxation without representation”? Americans were on a 90% tax discount compared to the British. America was founded off the back of the particularly idiotic, greedy and gullible, and they’ve continued on that path to present. And some fool gave them weapons.
This is from 1889. Literally nothing has changed. Go back 1000 years and it's the same fucking shit. Even 3000 years ago in Egypt. It's always rich vs everybody else just in different outfits.
Karl Marx
The Civil War in France
Written: July 1870 - May 1871
Nowhere do “politicians” form a more separate, powerful section of the nation than in North America. There, each of the two great parties which alternately succeed each other in power is itself in turn controlled by people who make a business of politics, who speculate on seats in the legislative assemblies of the Union as well as of the separate states, or who make a living by carrying on agitation for their party and on its victory are rewarded with positions.
Here we find here two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt means and for the most corrupt ends – and the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians, who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality exploit and plunder it.
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