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Swede

(38,133 posts)
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 08:04 AM Jul 2025

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

If my taxes don’t pave my roads or fix my bridges or keep my schools open 5 days a week or pay local teachers a living wage or help keep my hospital open or help my neighbor’s kid eat lunch or fund public television or my healthcare…

Why the fuck should I pay taxes?

If my taxes don’t pave my roads or fix my bridges or keep my schools open 5 days a week or pay local teachers a living wage or help keep my hospital open or help my neighbor’s kid eat lunch or fund public television or my healthcare…

Why the f’ck should I pay taxes?

Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) 2025-07-19T12:29:32.898Z


We have to pick up the slack for the ultra wealthy, corporations, & churches. All of which have political influence & say while paying minimal or zero taxes.

Brian Manning📎 (@boxdonkey17.bsky.social) 2025-07-19T12:59:07.410Z
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Thank you for your attention to this matter. (Original Post) Swede Jul 2025 OP
And we're allowing this... dlilafae Jul 2025 #1
"We" are not allowing this. Many of us are working many hours a week in the resistance. Amaryllis Jul 2025 #5
Isn't that the fucking truth ZDU Jul 2025 #2
K & R for Jess Piper. She's great. Substack link here: chia Jul 2025 #3
I remember people bemoaning Greece as austerity Farmer-Rick Jul 2025 #4
I've been saying this about our paying taxes for months kkmarie Jul 2025 #6
My guess is military or building structures and roads near the Nazi's new commercial "endeavors". efhmc Jul 2025 #8
Pete Hegseth's makeup studio and Kristi Noem's cosplaying yliza Jul 2025 #10
To service the debt intrepidity Jul 2025 #14
iCE for deporting hard working law-abiding immigrants MadameButterfly Jul 2025 #15
Yet megachurches and their multimillion dollar con artists Ruby the Liberal Jul 2025 #7
Probably because most of those items... SickOfTheOnePct Jul 2025 #9
yeah but if you believe in that, Federal taxes should go down MadameButterfly Jul 2025 #16
Yep. We're just straight-up funding the end of democracy at this point. And little to nothing else. Karasu Jul 2025 #11
Pretty much what i enumerated in #15 MadameButterfly Jul 2025 #17
My kids have started asking me this. AllyCat Jul 2025 #12
Someone suggested to me that with half the IRS cut MadameButterfly Jul 2025 #18
I've reminded them the cuts at IRS were to help the rich AllyCat Jul 2025 #20
330 million vs. 1 dickhead rickyhall Jul 2025 #13
Really unfathomable how we can't overcome MadameButterfly Jul 2025 #19

Amaryllis

(10,909 posts)
5. "We" are not allowing this. Many of us are working many hours a week in the resistance.
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 10:33 AM
Jul 2025

See Indivisible One Million Rising.

Farmer-Rick

(12,384 posts)
4. I remember people bemoaning Greece as austerity
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 09:44 AM
Jul 2025

Was forced down the throats of the average Greek citizen in order to be eligible for an EU loan.

People said Greece allowed their filthy-rich to pay so little in taxes, it lead to the need for constant loans to the government to pay for general functions. It was all Greece's own fault for not holding their rich oligarchs to account.

As federal employees pensions were ended, as the Greek form of Social Security went unfunded, as retirement age was increased, as government services disappeared and roads and infrastructure were left to crumble, Greece was able to dig out of the hole of debt it was put into. All because their filthy-rich refused to pay their taxes.

Austerity, the stupidest idea for paying off the rich ever invented. Coming back soon to a government near you.

kkmarie

(336 posts)
6. I've been saying this about our paying taxes for months
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 11:00 AM
Jul 2025

Doing the math what does the government need our tax money?
The regime is cutting services, programs and workforce. The things our taxes supported if those things are gone or greatly reduced we regular grunts should be getting a tax cut. It's not like we have relied on the rich for their tax contribution in decades now.

Where's our tax money going to go?

efhmc

(16,021 posts)
8. My guess is military or building structures and roads near the Nazi's new commercial "endeavors".
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 02:24 PM
Jul 2025

yliza

(196 posts)
10. Pete Hegseth's makeup studio and Kristi Noem's cosplaying
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 03:13 PM
Jul 2025

Repukes spend taxpayer money like drunken sailors when in office.

MadameButterfly

(3,696 posts)
15. iCE for deporting hard working law-abiding immigrants
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 01:47 AM
Jul 2025

and building detentions centers to keep them in, here and abroad
plus:
Tax cuts for the wealthy
A Cryptocurrency reserve that is guaranteed to lose most of it's value over time
Trump's legal defense and lawsuits
Deploying the military on it's own citizens
Paying farmers for their losses from tarriffs, cutting SNAP, and ending USAID
Trump jetting back and forth between DC and Mara Lago and putting up the Secret Service at luxury hotel rates
Bombing Iran, Panama, and Greenland
Cover loss in tax revenue from:
--cutting the IRS
---dwindling foreign travellers
---tarrifs
---loss of immigrant labor resulting in food scarcity, reduction in housing, people staying home to take care of elderly
---more job loss from closing of universities, fired federal workers, end of Department of Education and other agencies
---explosion of homeless people
---closings of hospitals and nursing homes from Medicaid cuts
---more people staying home to care for sick and eldery or just too sick to go to work themselves
---more people dying

Ruby the Liberal

(26,590 posts)
7. Yet megachurches and their multimillion dollar con artists
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 01:26 PM
Jul 2025

don't have to pay a dime.

Oh, and to that crowd? Jesus' own words (those are the red ones in the book you are using as a paperweight): “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s.”

That means pay your damn taxes so that Caesar can keep the roads and bridges up to date and provide education and healthcare.

SickOfTheOnePct

(8,710 posts)
9. Probably because most of those items...
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 02:26 PM
Jul 2025

...should be paid for with state/local taxes, not federal.

Perhaps federal taxes should supplement, but the bulk of the money for those things should be generated locally.

MadameButterfly

(3,696 posts)
16. yeah but if you believe in that, Federal taxes should go down
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 01:49 AM
Jul 2025

so the states can tax more. You can't shift burdens from feds to states but keep the tax dollars for the Feds.

Karasu

(2,003 posts)
11. Yep. We're just straight-up funding the end of democracy at this point. And little to nothing else.
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 07:40 PM
Jul 2025

Last edited Sat Jul 19, 2025, 09:20 PM - Edit history (1)

AllyCat

(18,443 posts)
12. My kids have started asking me this.
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 07:57 PM
Jul 2025

They are thinking they will just stop paying taxes.

I’ve warned them of the risks but really, what’s the point?

MadameButterfly

(3,696 posts)
18. Someone suggested to me that with half the IRS cut
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 01:55 AM
Jul 2025

they wonder if they could go after tax cheats. They just don't have the manpower.
Not recommending you try it though. Instead of a penalty these days they could throw you in a gulag in a foreign country or a swamp where you either get eaten by mosquitos or alligators.

MadameButterfly

(3,696 posts)
19. Really unfathomable how we can't overcome
Sun Jul 20, 2025, 01:58 AM
Jul 2025

any one man, but an eighty-something-year-old idiot in make up with dementia and a diaper?

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