Can't wait for everyone who talks shit about President Musk to get audited. It wasn't their plan but this is absolutely going to be a trap to catch people who resist the nazi takeover.
How much of this is because of America's new found love of famous tax dodgers they put into the government? So they think that trump is their new best friend, and if their best friends dont pay taxes, why should they?
I seem to recall hearing Trump officials/project2025 sorts say they wanted to do away with income tax, replace it with tariffs. So, I mean, the IRS falling apart and not being able to collect income tax is sorta... on the roadmap, isnt it? Like issuing this warning is prolly just gonna be taken as a goal milestone achieved on the plan.... ??
Replace with tariffs? This clown has no idea how anything works.
Coolidge-ism cannot fail. It can only be failed.
Gutting the federal budget takes us several big steps closer to the Thiel/Yarvin/Srinivasan envisioned Network State. Tiny autocratic techno-feudal cities that rule the surrounding territory in the same way Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, the Sinai Peninsula, and east Iraq are controlled from Tel Aviv. We're going to balkinize America, folks.
Sure but they're also stupid meaning five minutes after they will realize why income tax was adopted. Tariffs were becoming inefficient by the time of the civil war let alone now.
And loss of trust / stability of the government makes the tech industry's push for corporate controlled 'freedom cities' much easier to get agreement on, allowing America's rich oligarchs to quite literally establish their own baronies ;P
There's a reason why company towns were being abandoned even before they were outlawed, that being excessive violence. The key feature of these dweebs is a notable lack of historical understanding. Also a decaying empire is basically the only thing backing their wealth bravo dipshits ya played thine selves, seriously most of this shit will be taught in the successor states of the US not to dissimilar to how the failures of the Soviet Union are taught in former eastern bloc countries.
Musk: That's $500bn we won't have to spend valuable resources counting, so Boom another win!
things like this are why anyone saying the right wing is fiscally responsible should be laughed out of the room
"Republicans are fiscally responsible" = "You eat seven spiders every year in your sleep"
It's just something people will keep repeating until the end of time because they don't have anything important to say.
Fiscally Responsible George, who does 86400 fiscally responsibles a day, is an outlier and should not have been included in the data set.
They have never done anything since Regan that would point to them being fiscally responsible. They have always bestowed against the welfare of the future
Is everyone thinking they will "just do a tax fraud"?
Well, which of the laid off IRS employees are going to find out?
Some are thinking "I don't want to fund what Elon is doing so let them come and take it"
They can't catch all of us, right?
I filed mine mostly because I knew I was going to be getting a refund. I wanted to make sure that I got that money before the IRS was completely fucked. This may be the last year that I purposely overestimate my tax burden (e.g. paying more in taxes than I ideally should).
In the past, people would say that you're giving the government an interest-free loan - I didn't really care about that because I knew I would get that money back later. Now? I'm not so sure.
If you are an individual and not a business then the IRS already knows what you have been paid as long as you have been paid by a business.
It's already reported.
You can't dodge your taxes unless you are wealthy or a large corporation, us peons are already under the thumb.
Yeah I usually do the same just to be sure I will never owe anything now I'll probably change it so I always owe
The tax person I go to every year said everyone is filing for a extensions right now "to see what happens"
I am one of those skipping filing to see what happens.
Delay, deny, dispose [of the IRS letters].
I'm taking that money and donating it to local charities and helping people in my community.
Problem is it it will catch up to you if you owe taxes.
When this country recovers, be that in 10 years, then virus will happily go after the tax dodgers of yesterdecade.
That would be my worry.
That's fine. I'd rather pay a recovered government than the current one...if that happens.
So efficient