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Honestly isn't about the money it's about sending a message. Miss a few payments and you'll soon see how much money they're willing to throw at you in threats
by whywhywhywhy 5y ago
Honestly isn't about the money it's about sending a message.
Miss a few payments and you'll soon see how much money they're willing to throw at you in threats to drive the message home that your life is over if you don't resume paying, all for very measly amounts like $300. Taking someone to court even for a few minutes is going to cost more than the $300, taking you to prison is going to cost astronomically more than the $300.
Government needs to keep up the meme that taxes are something you owe purely for existing on their land, this meme of course is only aimed towards the working and middle classes, elites are allowed to skirt around it and pay back in other ways.
To the government, the idea that you could know say 5 working/middle class friends who just decided not to pay taxes and had no repercussions is far more dangerous than 1 billionaire not paying taxes. One of these situations is going to make you feel like an idiot for still paying, the other you'll just write off as that 1 person being crooked.
- perl4ever 5y agoIt should be kept in mind that the vast majority of the income tax revenue that sustains the US government comes from the "mass affluent", people who make a lot of money (a few hundred thousand $ per year) but do get it from employment. This is the center of gravity of the tax system, the people who are in aggregate both well off enough and numerous enough to act as cash cows. Plus being employed limits tax shelters. So keeping the upper middle class taxpayers compliant should be the top priority of a competent IRS, irrespective of fairness. I don't know how focused on that they really are, but I would give them the benefit of the doubt without definitive evidence.