"They" have been at this for as long as I have been paying taxes. It's a punitive system that also fosters division. I can't remember the source of this but way back in the NYT, a Republican talking about taxes referred to people who didn't make enough to pay income tax as "lucky duckys". I knew right then who the enemy was. That was about fifty years ago. My mother was infuriated about it and had brought it to my attention. We were a middle class, single income family. Good luck with that nowadays.
Interesting thought project, I guess I'd feel better about paying the IRS if I knew most everyone else was paying their fair share. I appreciated the link to the article featuring Aaron and I am now a paid subscriber 😉. Your work is incredibly valuable and your long hours in keeping us informed are important!!
I think that we should also consider saying public money instead of taxpayer money. We need to tax the wealthy to help protect democracy. Unfortunately, we’re learning that the wealthy don’t really want democracy, so they have figured out how to corrupt the system for their advantage. All of our US dollars are actually public money because every penny, nickel, dime, dollar bills, etc has been minted by our US Government. All money spent by our US government comes from appropriations by Congress. It seems like Don the Con is bypassing this, but the private money he says he’s collecting originated from our US Government treasury (with the exception of the bitcoin stuff that seems to just be made up out of imagination and corruption). But our US money should all be considered public money. Unfortunately, we currently have a system that allows most of our public money to be hoovered up by the wealthiest citizens who seem to have a lot of connections in the “Epstein class”. Our major concerns need to be for democracy and holding corruption accountable.
I do consider paying taxes to be a patriotic duty.
"They" have been at this for as long as I have been paying taxes. It's a punitive system that also fosters division. I can't remember the source of this but way back in the NYT, a Republican talking about taxes referred to people who didn't make enough to pay income tax as "lucky duckys". I knew right then who the enemy was. That was about fifty years ago. My mother was infuriated about it and had brought it to my attention. We were a middle class, single income family. Good luck with that nowadays.
nice job Paul
Interesting thought project, I guess I'd feel better about paying the IRS if I knew most everyone else was paying their fair share. I appreciated the link to the article featuring Aaron and I am now a paid subscriber 😉. Your work is incredibly valuable and your long hours in keeping us informed are important!!
I think that we should also consider saying public money instead of taxpayer money. We need to tax the wealthy to help protect democracy. Unfortunately, we’re learning that the wealthy don’t really want democracy, so they have figured out how to corrupt the system for their advantage. All of our US dollars are actually public money because every penny, nickel, dime, dollar bills, etc has been minted by our US Government. All money spent by our US government comes from appropriations by Congress. It seems like Don the Con is bypassing this, but the private money he says he’s collecting originated from our US Government treasury (with the exception of the bitcoin stuff that seems to just be made up out of imagination and corruption). But our US money should all be considered public money. Unfortunately, we currently have a system that allows most of our public money to be hoovered up by the wealthiest citizens who seem to have a lot of connections in the “Epstein class”. Our major concerns need to be for democracy and holding corruption accountable.
I do consider paying taxes to be a patriotic duty.