I wish we could just stop paying Federal Taxes.

[leftyladyfrommo]

We might as well take our hard earned money outside and set it on fire.

These assholes are burning thru billions of our tax dollars. They have fired all the watchdogs. No one is paying any attention to who ends up with millions.

And then people who have gotten a few thousand for unemployment get letters saying they need to return the money they were sent.

Where are the ads on this? Where is the outrage?

[CrispyQ]

1. It's time for Wall Street to bail out Main Street.

There's an ad for you. I don't understand the outrage of working people getting $600 a week when we gave forgivable loans to churches. Churches?! Are you fucking kidding me? And that's just the start of the very long list of looting that has gone on.

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. It is just plain looting.

Millions to fraudulently operating companies for PPE that they have never produced before and is so substandard it can't be used.

The billions for that dumb wall that blows over when the wind gets over 40 MPH.

Money to everyone but the people who pay taxes.

It just makes me sick..

[LiberalArkie]

3. That is what got Ronnie Reagan elected. He pounded into everyones heads that taxes were too high.

[roamer65]

4. Eventually the Roman denarius became worthless.

We will follow the same route.

[CaptYossarian]

5. It's time for the Joint Chiefs to land on this grenade.

The Pentagon takes 50% of our annual budget. Soldiers of all ranks swear to protect our country and its people.

Instead we've been training people in other countries who turn around and attack us. Now our own domestic terrorists (also trained by our military--like Nichols and McVeigh were) are turning on us--while employed by the brother of the Secretary of Education.

It's just not working anymore. Where did Ike keep his crystal ball? He had this figured out 60 years ago.

We need to defund the Pentagon and de-militarize the police.

This is 1968 Czechoslovakia. And yes, Russia is still very much involved.

[abqtommy]

6. I don't want anybody to stop paying taxes. I really like getting my Social Security payment

every month and having Medicare. Sure, there's problems that need to be fixed and we can do that...

[chowder66]

7. If we had Value Added Taxation, some can be earmarked for things like SS.

[panader0]

8. Why should regular citizens pay federal taxes when Companies like Amazon and Exxon Mobile don't?

Why should we answer subpoenas when the government doesn't?

[chowder66]

9. I was just reading this article the other day about VAT systems.

snip....

SOLMAN: Do you like the idea of a graduated consumption tax? So savings are not taxed, but consumption is. They know how much you earn, they know how much you saved, the rest has got to have been consumption.

REID: I really like the idea of consumption tax, and most countries have a pretty serious consumption tax. It’s called a value-added tax or a goods and services tax … It’s a sales tax. It doesn’t tax labor, it doesn’t tax savings or investment — it taxes consumption. And it turns out a VAT — a value-added tax — is a very easy tax to collect and a very hard tax to evade. It’s a really good idea. It was invented about 60 years ago in France, of course.

snip....

REID: Because they’re so good at taxing. They had a business tax that was easy to evade, and the head of the French IRS invented this value-added tax, which is very hard to evade. One hundred seventy-six countries have it now. It’s really a good tax. Professor Eric Zolt of UCLA, said to me, “The VAT is such a good idea, mark my words, within five years, the U.S. will have a VAT.” Then he said, “Of course, I’ve been saying that for 20 years.”



https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/countries-can-teach-america-taxes