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This is why our tax code is broken. There's so many hidden bullshit codes and requirements, that people are fucked unless they can actually spend a fortune on accountants and tax lawyers, two professional that we don't need that many of btw, but our tax code is written to make money and jobs for the rich.
Fuck the feds.
How can it be broken if it works exactly as intended? Same goes for the tax laws in my shitstain country.
I read an article the other day how taxes are a way - and always have been - to redistribute from the poor to the rich. Sounds about right.
Can you find and link me to the article? Ideally, they're to fund public necessities, schools and other infrastructure, roads, etc, fire departments, sanitation, defense, anything used by the collective.
I don’t have the article but basically when the rich aren’t taxed proportionally, their wealth and therefore power grows, while the lower classes get squeezed harder as they must give up a greater portion of their wealth in order to fund the obligations toward said infrastructure that keeps the whole machine running.
When used inappropriately, they are one piece of the larger system that funnels all the wealth upwards at the expense of everyone and everything else.
Sure, and that's extremely important context that should be included, because
Comes off sounding ancap or USA style libertarian.