A Bidentastic week and Trump's very bad one

[Sparko]

Unions exist to make union leaders at the top rich and powerful. Just like political parties.

[rogue06]

Unions exist to make union leaders at the top rich and powerful. Just like political parties.

I 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.

[Sparko]

I 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.

Well they do have the incentive to get workers more money. That way they can take more of it from them.

[Gondwanaland]

I'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.

Figured I'd bump this with a link to what actually happened with that 'more ability to crack down on tax evasion' for our dear friend Starlight : https://theologyweb.com/campus/forum...rest-taxpayers

[Gondwanaland]

No. 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+.

This didn't age well.
https://theologyweb.com/campus/forum...rest-taxpayers

[Starlight]

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.

[Ronson]

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.

The "amens" are for an American who is schooling a foreigner on American nuance. Something you'll never understand.

[Diogenes]

But your above post seems to have gotten 3 amens from the crazies.

Is it progressive to to use mental health stigma as a pejorative? Seems kind of ableist.

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)?

[Starlight]

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)?

Seems 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.

[Diogenes]

Seems 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.

Gun safety begins at home.


I assume using a stigmatised word regarding mental health as a pejorative is "progressive" now.

[Starlight]

I assume using a stigmatised word regarding mental health as a pejorative is "progressive" now.

Is this the psudo-woke Stanford-list-of-words thing? All the progressive commentators I know were rolling on the floor laughing at that.