🌎 Discussion: Taxes and Taxation

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[blueharvest]

Louisiana lawmakers pass income and corporate tax cuts, raising statewide sales tax to pay for it

Louisiana’s GOP-dominated legislature passed tax cuts on personal and corporate income on Friday in exchange for a statewide sales tax increase.

apnews.com

 

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[squeekness]

Who cares about old people and cripples?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs on BRICS Nations

“President-elect Trump on Saturday threatened to impose 100% tariffs against emerging markets that try to shift away from the U.S. dollar in international trade,” Axios reports.“The threat against the BRICS nations (primarily Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) is the latest es

politicalwire.com

Taxman Trump won’t ST*U about raising taxes.

 

[squeekness]

Trump thinks he's king of the world.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[squeekness]

Hope he loses bigly.

 

[blueharvest]

'The People Always Pay': Report Details How LNG Tax Breaks Harm Gulf Communities | Common Dreams

"These deals essentially pay industry to inflict more suffering on already climate-ravaged communities," said one local opponent of efforts to further expand gas exports in the region.

www.commondreams.org

 

[blueharvest]

Elon Musk’s Real Plan Is Starting to Appear

Musk isn’t just out to make himself even richer via his connection to Trump. He also wants to gut Social Security and Medicare.

newrepublic.com

 

[squeekness]

Elon Musk’s Real Plan Is Starting to Appear

Musk isn’t just out to make himself even richer via his connection to Trump. He also wants to gut Social Security and Medicare.

newrepublic.com

Not like it affects him any, he's a zillionaire.

 

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[Herofan]

A lot of people run on cutting corporate subsidies and then don't do so. And they usually don't even work together to try to do so, they consider each other too extreme on other issues and so just fight about those other issues. Although we did manage to withdraw from wars and not start new ones.

 

[squeekness]

My Republican aunt on social security still doesn't think he means it.

 

[blueharvest]

My Republican aunt on social security still doesn't think he means it.

She'll think differently after Trump and the Republicans get rid of her Social Security after January 20th next month.

 

[Ironfan72]

She'll think differently after Trump and the Republicans get rid of her Social Security after January 20th next month.

Yeah, my mom is very worried, she is on social security and knows Trump and republicans want to eliminate it, i just dont know if americans understand what they are about to do and who it will affect, including many who voted for Trump, funny how the people dead set on getting rid of something millions of americans depend on are the ones who will never need it, i am curious as to what if anything would happen if that not only gets mentioned officially and happens what happens then, how will Trump and his billionair cronies spin this as a good thing for the average american, especially when that first check of the new month doesnt arrive?

 

[squeekness]

She'll think differently after Trump and the Republicans get rid of her Social Security after January 20th next month.

She and a lot of others are in for a big shock.

 

[squeekness]

Yeah, my mom is very worried, she is on social security and knows Trump and republicans want to eliminate it, i just dont know if americans understand what they are about to do and who it will affect, including many who voted for Trump, funny how the people dead set on getting rid of something millions of americans depend on are the ones who will never need it, i am curious as to what if anything would happen if that not only gets mentioned officially and happens what happens then, how will Trump and his billionair cronies spin this as a good thing for the average american, especially when that first check of the new month doesnt arrive?

"Well, we told you there would be some pain..." Just not for them.

 

[Ironfan72]

"Well, we told you there would be some pain..." Just not for them.

I am curious, once they eliminate both SS and Medicare, will they reimburse me for the 35 years i have been puting into that?

 

[squeekness]

I am curious, once they eliminate both SS and Medicare, will they reimburse me for the 35 years i have been puting into that?

Of course not. They won't even thank you for your charitable contribution to the government.

 

[blueharvest]

Trump’s Plan to Turn the IRS Into a Grifter’s Paradise

Billy Long, an anti-tax huckster who doesn’t think the IRS should exist, makes his living promising to cut your tax bill 40 percent.

newrepublic.com

 

[blueharvest]

Wealthy Americans are still ducking the IRS crackdown on non-filers

A quirk in federal tax law may be incentivizing wealthy people who want to avoid paying taxes to simply not file their returns.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

Despite Trump Assurances on Sunday, DOGE Heads Musk and Ramaswamy Signal Social Security Cuts Are Coming

Trump vowed to “not cut one penny” from Social Security, but his other statements and actions suggest that he plans to.

truthout.org

 

[squeekness]

Despite Trump Assurances on Sunday, DOGE Heads Musk and Ramaswamy Signal Social Security Cuts Are Coming

Trump vowed to “not cut one penny” from Social Security, but his other statements and actions suggest that he plans to.

truthout.org

He is certainly going to try. It's a program he personally can't make money from so what does he care?

 

[blueharvest]

How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes

Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.

www.propublica.org