Comment on IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts

• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What a disingenuous take. Surely you can see how no one’s going to take that message seriously, and no one will be convinced?

  Taxes also pay for health care, roads, libraries, arts, and countless other things. Do you hate health care, roads, libraries, and art? I mean, maybe, but I wouldn’t be confident about guessing that based solely on your position on taxation.

  None of this is supporting your initial claim of “taxation is theft”

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• naught101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s just an argument that the military budget should be dramatically reduced (absolutely agree!), and that taxation is a problem in general.

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  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Can’t fund the military without taxation. If you told citizens to donate to support a war effort halfway across the globe that has no impact on their daily lives, they’d be absolutely certain to do it. /s. Now, coerce them with the threat of being thrown in a cage, or at the barrel of a gun, and that’s different.

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    • naught101@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes, but you CAN have taxation without funding the military. You’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

      I don’t think taxation is the only way to do this, but you do need some kind of process for ensuring common social services and infrastructure exist and are maintained. Taxation is what we have now. How would you support those services without it?

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      • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        If you absolutely must have taxation, then have state taxation. Because I don’t see the state of Texas declaring war on Pakistan.

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• Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  So you do not like educated people? Because that is what taxes are used for.

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  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There are these things called homeschools or small community schools. Also, if you are a D-I-N-K type family, why should you have to pay for somebody else’s children?

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    • ChexMax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Because as a dink, other people’s children will serve as your lawyers, nurses, firemen, governor’s, mailmen, cable guy whatever for at least half of your life. You contribute nothing to the next gen except those taxes. Other people are providing the workers, while you benefit from their unpaid labor of raising children. Only dumb dumbs don’t see the value in contributing to education, especially since a lot of they themselves benefited from that exact education or free access to libraries and other social services

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    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Homeschooling isn’t effective. Community schools need funding and a guaranteed level of education. Also yes, if you are a DINK you should

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• Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  So you don’t like education? Because that is what taxes are used for.

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  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Parents should be allowed to homeschool their children, not send them to government-funded indoctrination camps. Also, if you are a D.I.N.K. family, why exactly should you have to pay for other people’s children?

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    • Willy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Because living with educated people is better than not.

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• prototype_g2@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  So you enjoy killing people. Got you. Because that’s what your tax money is used for

  Not in my country. What? You forgot the USA wasn’t the only country in the world?

  It seems like you have a problem with capitalism, not with the concept of taxes.

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