Trump supporters have a similar brain structure to moths. they see a light (Trump saying something), doesn’t matter what it is or if it’s attached to something that’ll kill them, they’ll flock and rave to it regardless
Why can’t a leftist candidate do that? What’s the secret sauce? Is it violence, or the threat of violence?
Fascism doesn’t have to model reality, just knit together a story that confirms underlying biases of the “middle class” without questioning the system that privileged them, but is failing.
Leftists have the advantage in that we can describe exactly why your material conditions are eroding while we are more productive than ever, but for someone who was privileged under capitalism, its easier to believe the system that privileged them is good and just, its just foreigners and minorities who are exploiting them.
We need a fake fascist candidate then who’s just owning the libs at every turn.
"We’re going to build massive social housing programs and get the homeless of the street,what are ya gonna complain about now, shitlibs?
We’re going to close the gender pay gap and raise federal minimum wage to a living standard. Where’s your talking points now you fucking commie bastards?!
Oh, that’s a nice ‘eat the rich’ banner you e got there. Well these greedy libtards are going to have to go hungry, because we are eating the rich first! Cry into your government-issued fucking trans flag, theythems!’
Stupid followers that need to be told to hate someone.
Could probably succeed on a “hate the billionaires” ticket, if these people weren’t so programmed with capitalism.
It would be easy like this
I will make healthcare free for everyone! We’re going to have the best healthcare in the world and billionaires are going to pay for it!
I’m going to start a federal drug program! We’re going to have the cheapest drugs in the world and no-one will have to decide between rent and their medication!
I’m going to start a national Give Parents Freedom Act, where we will provide free daycare for any parent making under 100k/year! We will pay for it by cutting the military budget by 1%!
In my first 100 days I’m going to sign the mothers are awsome executive order mandating 1 year of maternity leave for mothers and 3 months for fathers. Employers will not be allowed to fire any new parent.
I’m also going to divert ICE money into a new consumer agency called “IYCIWFYU” (If you collude I will fuck you up) their entire mission will be to investigate corporations that are price fixing and stealing money from the people.
I’m going to make digital Tax filing FREE for everyone and divert all IRS investigations into people making over 5 million per year!
Instead we get
I’ll try to pass a bipartisan bill to maybe fix some roads… 🤷I don’t know… We’ll see what Republicans let me do 😢
I don’t think this is the whole secret because that’s basically what our left party in Germany is doing and they’re at 11 % in polls…
People are looking for an enemy image onto which they can project their frustration, and they are not willing to target the wealthy class because they irrationally hope to belong to it someday. Instead, they direct their frustration against the poorer and weaker, as it is much easier to distinguish oneself from a group that one definitely does not want to belong to.
This is class struggle from above…
I’m not American but you get my vote
I think the secret sauce is critical thinking. No joke.
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Find your masters. Find their children. Vote for every last one.
Then stop paying fed taxes.
Taxes are taken out of your checks before you are even paid. This isn’t practical.
I do have to wonder if everyone stopped paying federal taxes how that would fix over Trump. Like, would he admit he’s powerless against the numerous? Would he just lie and pretend the money is there? Would he just not pay the bills like he has historically done?
It’s fun to imagine what he would do facing adversity.
taxes are
Get paid under the table.
would he just pretend
Yes. Obviously. Money’s fake anyway. But that would heighten a looooot if contradictions and fracture a lot of coalitions on the right.
Well, if you don’t have a complicated tax return, meaning you only have a 9-5 job and no other income streams. You can file it yourself.
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That’s freedumb, pal.
If you ever bothered to use them you would find that they do not charge you for the privilege. They do offer some services that you must pay to use but you are not forced to use them and can do without them all if you are conscientious enough to cover your own ass for mistakes
“not forced to use them”
This ignores obnoxious hurdles in place to make the free tier as shitty as possible so people buy.
“cover your own ass for mistakes” Well can you personally guarantee that these asshats won’t create traps and gotcha’s along the way?
Since I don’t own the company, no I cannot guarantee anything. Guess I shoukda stuck a big fat #YMMV on the post. If none of you are comfortable using them, thats fine. DON’T USE THEM. If they have income limits for the free file thats their prerogative. Anyone that has to do your math for you deserves compensation
Except why do private companies handle taxes at all? That’s not their business and the government should be able to handle it all themselves. Take your smugness and shove it.
Go look in the mirror if youre seeing any smugness. Its all you
Why are you so upset about the USPS? We have private companies that do what it does better.
If you can’t see the problem with the above statement you need to swallow your tongue.
Oh boy you have a mirror. Have yoy actually looked in your own eyes?
Why are you even on this platform? Go enjoy LinkedIn where you can suck up to your ceo daddy’s
Oh I guess this makes sense, considering your arguments it tracks that you’re a soulless entity whose reflection won’t show up in a mirror.
Depends on specifics. I haven’t been able to use the free tier for years. These companies collect all kinds of data from its users too.
Freetaxusa.com has been my filer for the last four cycles
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The ultimate protest has always been mailing in your taxes
They’re just going to have a record high number of people not filing their taxes, and I can’t tell if that’s the point?
“Don’t worry about it. If you’re rich, it wont affect you!”
-Every single thing the GOP has done this term
When admitting, even to yourself, that you were wrong/duped feels worse than just dying, lol.
I don’t think that’s it. Have you been on Twitter lately? Every decision he makes is followed by skews of pundits explaining why it’s actually a genius move and how what he’s doing is actually awesome, and without a thought the GOP supporters just eat it up. It’s absolutely nuts. I barely even see anybody pissed about the Epstein files anymore. The only people who supported him that don’t anymore seem to be the supernazis who consider him to be a puppet of Israel and “the Jews.” It’s absolutely fucked.
the pundits are paid to do that
I try not to feel bad when I’m wrong. There is a whole trillion dollar set of apparatuses at work specifically evolved and designed to trick us into falling for it. I don’t judge for being wrong, but for refusing to admit it when it’s so clear it is sometimes flabbergasting. I’ve tried to see what they see to be fair to them, but they believe an election was stolen because somebody walked by a mailbox in Philly. I can’t understand that level of guillibility if someone is willing to admit they are wrong.
Fellow non-USians: no they don’t have to pay their government for the privilege of being allowed to file their taxes. “For free” here means “without the help of a tax accountant (and online)”. I was SO SO SO confused.
Edit: tax adviser? tax agent? some person who knows taxes.
It’s also not as easy as it is in other countries. It seems like most countries the government knows what you owe and you just verify it. In America the government says “we know already, but you have to tell me what you owe. If you’re wrong we’re coming after you.” So it is a bit more complicated for us and since it’s more complicated we use tax prep software or hire tax agents. Some services offer(d) free federal filing and you’d just pay $10-15 for state tax. Now I imagine there’s going to be a feeding frenzy for the online services as their prices are going to increase…
Trump will do anything and everything to make sure we have to pay some rich fuck…
I just click accept on my taxes and then pay or receive whatever says there.
Oh I wasn’t dismissing this as a non-issue or anything, it’s clearly bullshit and yet another reason for you to burn cars and billionaires. But I remember when I first heard about this, specifically the “(file) for free” was INCREDIBLY confusing because as ridiculous many, many things the US does may seem to me, (what I understood as) the notion of paying your government a fee to process your taxes was juuust a bit too far out.
You CAN still do it on your own though, just not online, yeah?
Yeah you can definitely still do it on your own it’s just very complicated for anyone who has more than just a job and no investment, property, etc. like a dude with one job who rents an apartment and has nothing else would more than likely have an easy time doing it, the hardest part for them would probably be the mail since no one does physical mail anymore lol
Edit: shit that just reminds me, I don’t even have a printer!
Libraries have printers. Somehow its still 10 cents a page
you could always file a paper return
Yep. That sounds about right in the year of Our Lord Yog Sothoth 2025 in the planet’s richest country.
They seem much more like worshippers of the Black Goat of the Woods.
So far, Cashapp is still offering free filing. Feels weird to use it, but it’s worked out fine for the past few years. I refuse to go back to TurboTax and their predatory free-until-its-not pricing.
Freetaxusa.com if you feel weird supporting cash app
i haven’t invested in intuit out of spite (former tax accountant here, the term you’re looking for is tax professional as there are too many worthless certs) but i’m really curious how much krasnov did. now the “easy” way to file in the US is turbotax, which is fine if you know how to answer the (intentionally obtuse) questions, which most people don’t. Now it’ll cost everyone at least $75 unless they raise their prices, which they will.
So you can’t file your taxes online? That’s insane. Muricans need to get rid of this dude asap.
This has been the status quo for many years. Direct file with the government was released within the last few years, which is what Trump is killing.
Historically, you’ve had to pay someone like Intuit, H&R Block, or a local tax accountant to walk you through filing. Third parties that will all charge you a couple hundred dollars for the privilege, though the big firms will have online filing. You could also file purely by paper and mail, if you’re a psycho (confident that you won’t make audit-able mistakes).
He’s a mad king over an impressively uneducated and inept populace.
more like:
name of bill: “America the Wonderful and Beautiful”
text in bill: “rat poison now mandatory on tap water”
FREE Tax filing is SOCIALISM!
-People who SUPPORT Trump’s Government buying a Stake in Intel!
Buying a stake in Intel is not socialism. It’s state capitalism.
It’s corporate socialism later, when the government bails them out.
This is wrong. Socialism is not ‘getting a bailout’. It is a society that has a more equitable distribution of resources. It is a kind of society where bailouts are far less likely to be needed in the first place.
Socialism is when workers control or own the means of production. How things are distributed is irrelevant.
Communism is where workers own the means of production. Socialism is proposed as a step towards communism.
Get a bettter AS.
Oh there’s still “IRS Free File”, which is a different thing where you have to go through a middle man to get it while they try their damndest to “upgrade” you to the paid version. And presumably they got some kind of money from the US gov either way.
Direct File was a sane program that cut them out and let people file their taxes completely directly. The leeches lobbied against it.
If you support Free Tax Filing then you must support the Unconstitutional Anti-American Income Tax.
The Founding Fathers made a blood pact to NEVER do an income tax and ONLY raise money via Tariffs, which is the perfect and Godly way to generate tax revenues. Every president who has ever levied a national income tax has FAILED. And Trump isn’t going to fail this nation by letting people pay that tax for free.
By abolishing the free filing provision, we are going to come one step closure to guaranteeing nobody (earning more than $500k/year) has to pay it again.
We are free to choose our actions, but we are not free to choose the consequences.
And it turns out that elections have consequences beyond owning the libs
Anything and everything to hurt Americans.
Hey guys. If I described to you an entity that did nothing but harm average Americans, would you consider that entity to be an enemy of the United States of America?
Yeah, but, hear me out…what if I told you you’re now allowed to be openly racist?
And openly transphobic? Would that sweeten the pot?
That depends, can I cosplay as military and send browns to concentration camps too? For more than I currently make as with a Bachelor’s degree and over 10 years experience?
Ew. Unless your bachelor’s is from a for-profit university, that’s not going to set you back.
Best I can do is for you to LARP as a 2A activist. No pay but you get to feel like you’re one of the special ones. At least until we don’t need you anymore.
And bail you out for treason?
Israel?
Don’t worry, maga americans will find some mind bending justification for this. They are a cult.
It’s pretty open. Step 1 is make income tax as painful as possible, step 2 is get rid of it in favour of tarrifs and other regressive revenue generating fees. And MAGA was already convinced that progressive taxation helped people they want hurt.
There’s still “IRS Free File”, which is a different thing where you have to go through a middle man to get it while they try their damndest to “upgrade” you to the paid version. And presumably they got some kind of money from the US gov either way.
Direct File was a sane program that cut them out and let people file their taxes completely directly. The leeches lobbied against it.
Sigh. I used Direct File last year and it was great. Back to FreeTaxUSA I guess. The least shitty option I’m aware of.
Freetaxusa is the GOAT for filing. Have all my shit saved on a NAS and it’s so easy.
You can still use free fillable forms, you can fill out the raw tax forms yourself online and can submit them online there. Not the best UI, it’s literally just the forms, but you cut out the middle man so they don’t get more money to lobby congress to keep this dumb system going. It’s also free if you make more then $85,000 , which alot of the “free” software isn’t.
I’ve always just got the forms from the IRS site and mailed them in. If they’re going to make me work for it, I’ll make them work too.
Why the fuck are any of us paying for this‽
Because at least one of:
You literally cannot imagine any otyer arrangement of human organization. Blame being ground down by The Horrors, the death f humanities education, or just you sucking. Whatever causes it, you can only imagine begging the manchildren in washington to be less mean.
You think laws are magic spells
You are afraid of men with guns who are the state. You don’t have enough solidarity with your neighbors to believe you can fight rhem.
I doubt Trump has ever paid tax in his life
It’s okay guys, because of that bill we saved 0.00005% of federal spending and our tax breaks only increased the deficit by like 2,631.58% resulting in 50 Trillion USD debt by 2032. You’re welcome. /s
