🌎 Discussion: Taxes and Taxation

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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

But the rich deserve a tax cut!!!!!

 

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Steve Bannon warns wealthy and corporations will get ‘massive’ tax breaks

Bannon has advocated for raising taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Steve Bannon warns wealthy and corporations will get ‘massive’ tax breaks

Bannon has advocated for raising taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations

www.independent.co.uk

It's the only thing we agree on.

 

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Doing For-Profit Tax Industry's Bidding, GOP Calls On Trump to Cancel Direct File Program | Common Dreams

Outraged by House Republicans' push to end the IRS Direct File program, Rep. Connolly declares: "Republicans want to make your lives more difficult." Why do they want to take away a free, easy way for Americans to file taxes and keep their refunds? #SaveDirectFile #TaxFairness

www.commondreams.org

 

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Trump isn't backing down from his tariff tough talk: 'We have to take it seriously'

Last time, "a lot us thought it was bluster," one expert said. This time around, businesses are ready

qz.com

 

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The tax penalty on married women hiding in plain sight

Millions would be better off if the US changed its joint filing system.

www.vox.com

 

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If everyone paid what they should we wouldn't have all the deficits we do.

 

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Alberta's premier says Americans will pay a lot more for gas if Trump applies 25% tariffs on Canada

The premier of Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta says Americans will pay a lot more for gas if President-elect Donald Trump imposes a 25% tariff on all Canadian products

www.independent.co.uk

 

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If everyone paid what they should we wouldn't have all the deficits we do.

Plus, we would probably have Universal Healthcare, too.

 

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Alberta's premier says Americans will pay a lot more for gas if Trump applies 25% tariffs on Canada

The premier of Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta says Americans will pay a lot more for gas if President-elect Donald Trump imposes a 25% tariff on all Canadian products

www.independent.co.uk

I can hardly wait.

 

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Doug Ford pushing to meet with Donald Trump to talk ‘businessman to businessman’

Ford says he's pressing U.S. contacts for a face-to-face meeting with Trump to persuade the president-elect his threat of 25-per-cent tariffs are a bad idea.

www.thestar.com

 

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Elon Musk Wants to Pay for His Tax Cuts With Your Social Security and Medicare

The point of Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s DOGE is to cut entitlement programs so Donald Trump can cut taxes for the ultra-wealthy and corporations.

www.rollingstone.com

 

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Trump’s 2017 tax cuts expire soon − study shows they made income inequality worse and especially hurt Black Americans

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act from Trump’s first administration harmed many middle-class and low-income taxpayers. But Black people got it the worst, says an expert on race and taxation.

theconversation.com

 

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A million taxpayers will soon receive up to $1,400 from the IRS

Approximately 1 million taxpayers will automatically receive special payments of up to $1,400 from the IRS in the coming weeks

abcnews.go.com

 

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Republicans quietly cut IRS funding by $20 billion in bill to avert government shutdown

The GOP assault on the revenue collecting agency's funding could exacerbate wait times and balloon the deficit.

www.salon.com

 

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Republicans quietly cut IRS funding by $20 billion in bill to avert government shutdown

The GOP assault on the revenue collecting agency's funding could exacerbate wait times and balloon the deficit.

www.salon.com

Can't have those rich guys paying back taxes.

 

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Can't have those rich guys paying back taxes.

That's why the super-rich wanted Trump back in the White House.

 

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Fixing Social Security - Lawyers, Guns & Money

One striking example of how powerful right wing propaganda has been over the last generation in this country is that I constantly run into highly educated people who are sure that Social Security won’t exist when they retire 15 or 20 or 25 years from now. If I’m feeling as evangelical as my...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

 

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Fixing Social Security - Lawyers, Guns & Money

One striking example of how powerful right wing propaganda has been over the last generation in this country is that I constantly run into highly educated people who are sure that Social Security won’t exist when they retire 15 or 20 or 25 years from now. If I’m feeling as evangelical as my...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

I'm not sure it will exist either the way it keeps getting attacked all the time.