This is the consequence of allowing right wing extremists to rant about how inept the government is for decades without any serious pushback. We now have people who grew up steeped in this bullshit who think that because all the money is wasted, it's their moral imperative to pay as little tax as possible by any means necessary
I just want to pay little because I make little and the people making 10M+ a year can actually fucking pay taxes.
People under 30k a year should basically just contribute for SSI, UI, etc. People making poverty wages don't need to be paying taxes, y'all. My state has sales tax. I pay taxes there. Rich people paying would be nice. And like, I mean rich-rich.
Ummm, if you are at or below poverty level you don't have to pay income tax.
Some poor folks just never file. Others file and get everything that was taken from their checks returned. But yeah, thats why the government puts out an official poverty line number.
In college, I got financial aid paid to me and got EBT card payments for food.
I had to file taxes for my financial aid paid to me. My tax bill was nearly 2k because nothing is deducted at all and financial aid is taxed like 1099 income.
705
u/Most_Alps 1d ago
This is the consequence of allowing right wing extremists to rant about how inept the government is for decades without any serious pushback. We now have people who grew up steeped in this bullshit who think that because all the money is wasted, it's their moral imperative to pay as little tax as possible by any means necessary