Of course, that helps explain the direct attack the GOP house members are making on the IRS…
The biggest donors to GOP lawmakers are exactly the ones who don’t want to be found out in an audit.
Yep, and they know if they gut the IRS, they’re less likely to go after the big fish who have the means to battle it out, vs. going after pennies from working class people…
and that is what will be done in order to “look busy”.
this is no time for plebs like us to try to cheat the taxman, Professor!
Yep… but honestly, I’m a big believer in paying one’s taxes, as it’s the actual patriotic thing to do… Of course, I’d love for my tax dollars to go for the things that help all of us instead of for just killing people in other countries…
I only resent paying a higher percentage of my income than billionaires do.
Exactly.
More’s the pity that staffers didn’t tell all while Trump was still in office.
We could all tell from our various homes around the country (world, really), so why did it take so long for people who worked for him every day to figure it out?
I love lamp.
He’d probably try to blackmail Denmark. “Give us Greenland, or we’ll tell China you did it.”
There’s a Greg Egan book, I forget which one, where people are allowed to specify what their tax goes to, and obviously the military has the biggest advertising budget so they get all the money.
There is an argument to be made that SF authors ought not to go around giving evil people notions…
I’ve heard people push that idea of us deciding where our tax dollars go… Much like the flat tax or a national sales tax, I think it’s pretty much libertarian hooey.
Unfortunately for sci-fi authors, people often mistake their dytopian ideas for aspirational!
They still wont pay it.
