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Originally posted by Sparko View PostUnions exist to make union leaders at the top rich and powerful. Just like political parties.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostI believe it was even mention in Howard Zinn's far left history book, The People's History of the United States, that it didn't take long before you couldn't distinguish a union boss from the owner of a big company. They wore the same tailored clothes, liked diamond pinkie rings and expensive watches, and dined and vacationed in the same luxury spots.
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostI'm not sure I understand all the worry here about the IRS having more ability to crack down on tax evasion. Assuming that the posters here are dutifully paying their own taxes, why aren't you all thrilled that other people who are tax cheats and who aren't paying what they owe like you are, are going to be brought to justice? Or is this forum full of tax cheats who are afraid of enforcement of the law against themselves??
Personally, as someone who pays taxes every year in accordance with the law, I would have nothing to worry about if the tax department audited me, and I would welcome it doing further scrutiny on people who were doing tax evasion because such people are ripping off the entire country and everyone in it.
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostNo. They don't. That's the whole point of this. Trying to disentangle the shell companies and tax evasion tricks that the wealthy use is typically hard and requires quite a lot of IRS resources. That's why previous Republican administrations stripped these IRS resources to make sure their billionaire donors were shielded from tax investigations.
Seriously dude, you don't have to come up with conspiracies about absolutely everything. You're allowed to take a break from making up baseless conspiracy theories once in a while.
It has long been a Progressive priority to reinstate the IRS tax enforcement on the ultra-rich that the Republicans stripped out. This bill finally does that. There seems to be quotes specifically saying these employees are to go after people earning 400k+.
https://theologyweb.com/campus/forum...rest-taxpayers
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I wasn't going to say anything here since you've been slapped around enough in the other thread for delusionally thinking that a law intended to ramp up over multiple years, should have had major effects in 7 weeks. But your above post seems to have gotten 3 amens from the crazies.
So I'll point out here that my take has aged fine (to the extent that 4 months can be considered aging), and you've got absolutely no evidence for critiquing it. Come back to this thread in 3 years and we'll see then how things are going."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostI wasn't going to say anything here since you've been slapped around enough in the other thread for delusionally thinking that a law intended to ramp up over multiple years, should have had major effects in 7 weeks. But your above post seems to have gotten 3 amens from the crazies.
So I'll point out here that my take has aged fine (to the extent that 4 months can be considered aging), and you've got absolutely no evidence for critiquing it. Come back to this thread in 3 years and we'll see then how things are going.
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostBut your above post seems to have gotten 3 amens from the crazies.
Also, does the Inland Revenue Department conduct firearm training with human targets and conducts training on raiding suburban homes as does the IRS (page 17)?
P1) If , then I win.
P2)
C) I win.
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Government departments here by contrast are almost completely toothless. It wouldn't surprise me to hear that sending an angry-sounding letter was pretty much the highest level of escalation for my tax department. I vaguely recall it making headlines 5 years ago or so when they did a single prosecution for tax evasion.Last edited by Starlight; 01-08-2023, 06:43 PM."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostSeems in line with the rest of the US's gun craziness. It wouldn't surprise me if US kindergartens with lethal combat training is a thing.
Government departments here by contrast are almost completely toothless. It wouldn't surprise me to hear that sending an angry-sounding letter was pretty much the highest level of escalation for my tax department. I vaguely recall it making headlines 5 years ago or so when they did a single prosecution for tax evasion.
I assume using a stigmatised word regarding mental health as a pejorative is "progressive" now.P1) If , then I win.
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C) I win.
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Originally posted by Diogenes View PostI assume using a stigmatised word regarding mental health as a pejorative is "progressive" now."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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