• krisevol@lemmy.zip
    2·
    8 hours ago

    Last quater the government paied more in interest than they took in from income taxes.

    You’re income tax doesn’t pay for anything but interest on the debt at this point.

        • Albbi@lemmy.ca
          2·
          9 hours ago

          Sorry, wasn’t being sarcastic. I was trying to remember some of my favourite comic strips when I was at the library recently. I knew I was missing a few but couldn’t recall them and I haven’t picked up a newspaper for the comics in years. Pearls Before Swine is one of the strips I was trying to remember, and I haven’t had it cross my path in a while.

  • ActualGrapesTasteGreen@piefed.zipEnglish
    16·
    23 hours ago

    Unless you have a unique tax situation, your taxes have been pulled out of every paycheck throughout the year. You can’t protest by not doing taxes because you’re probably giving Uncle Sam more than you otherwise would have.

    Real tax based protest begins when you get a unique tax situation where your employer stops prepaying taxes for you. Or if you jump through the hoops to break even on your taxes.

    Either way, there’s probably better ways to protest. The IRS will find you they won’t care who was president at the time.

      • BreakerSwitch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 hours ago

        Not sure if sarcasm, but in case you’re not American, Uncle Sam is a personification of the US, best known in the “I WANT YOU” WW2 enlistment posters. iirc, the name goes as far back as the war of 1812, wherein large stocks of rations were engraved with the initials U.S. which was then attributed to the provider “Uncle Sam” despite actually standing for “United States”

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      4·
      21 hours ago

      Unless you have reason to think that you underpaid your taxes last year, exactly this. People filling their tax returns takes money back away from the federal government.

  • melfie@lemmy.zip
    7·
    21 hours ago

    As I was filing my taxes, I was just thinking about the video someone posted here recently where military weapons were firing and it was racking up huge sums as shots were fired. All the US citizens on Lemmy paying taxes amounts to a few air to air missiles.