• Snot Flickerman
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    2 years ago

    Poor people can’t afford lawyers to fight back.

    Rich people can.

    Ergot Ergo, they aim at poor people way more often.

    • kpw
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      202 years ago

      The Pentagon is not some rich dude with lawyers.

      • Snot Flickerman
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        22 years ago

        Yeah not my fault its a badly considered meme.

        I was just responding to the second half.

        The IRS isn’t in charge of auditing the Pentagon, congress is.

      • @Tak@lemmy.ml
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        92 years ago

        The IRS can audit the ultra wealthy exclusively and it still wont really change how fucked taxes are in the US. The tax brackets are a fucking wreck, capital gains is a joke, and estate tax is basically non existent.

        It’s like cheering for Biden for really sticking it to those rich folk when he’s just checking their couch for quarters.

        • @EatYouWell@lemmy.world
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          52 years ago

          We really just need a corporate revenue tax. Any other method of taxing the ultra wealthy will be abused so that the ultra wealthy are the only ones not paying it

        • BlanketsWithSmallpox
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          2 years ago

          Ah true, guess we better do nothing rather than search for billion dollar quarters in the trillionaire holding elite class.

          • @Tak@lemmy.ml
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            22 years ago

            That’s what I am saying, this is nothing and we shouldn’t be celebrating nothing. It’s not like they fixed the Trump admin’s tax changes, it’s not like they’re taxing the wealthy more.

            To do more than nothing takes an act of Congress and they’re not doing anything, they’re doing nothing. This is the legal equivalent of 4th grade graduation ceremonies.