• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Also, tariffs and sales tax mean the wealthy pay a lot less in taxes. Since you’ve got your tongue up Musk’s butthole you’ll be real happy about that.

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 hours ago

        Exactly, you’re proving my point. The rich doesn’t have to pay when they send their goons to extort you out of your life savings. Ask yourself, when has the rich ever paid their fair share?

        This shit will only get worse. People are so naive and think the rich ever pays taxes. Gutting the IRS would only help the rich. As for the poor, they are gonna put 200% sales tax (just as their fascist in chief promised) and if you dont pay, they wouldn’t be needing irs, they send private security to your house.

        You think fascism is gonna need IRS? fascists don’t obey laws, they do what criminal organizations do when they want to collect their “protection fees”.

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      1 day ago

      do you not know that WE pay the tariff charges? or do you honestly believe that, example, Canada is just like “yeah we dont mind paying the 25% in our exports, we’ll just cover that for you”

      sorry but no. they will upcharge the export 25% to counter the tariff, then it gets sold to US for 25% more, then on the store shelf WE pay 25% more so cover the “losses”

      if you dont think this is how it works. let me ask you a simple question scenario.

      you have a lemonade stand. you sell for 1 dollar on the street. suddenly, someone says. hey i own this street. you have to pay me 25 cents to sell here.

      do you continue to sell for 1 dollar and lose 25 cents per sale? or do you charge 1.25 to keep making the same profit?

      if your answer was “id move to a different street” well then you cant comprehend a question and you are dodging it.

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      2 days ago

      Tariffs need someone to collect them. And sales tax is very much the IRS. It’s not automated just because they itemized your receipt.