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Here is the link to donate to the Treasury: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/gift/gift.htm http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/gift/gift
by temphn 15y ago
Here is the link to donate to the Treasury:
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/gift/gift.htm http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/gift/gift.htm
Group A wants to raise their own taxes, and a (much larger) Group B does not want their taxes raised. Fantastic, the Treasury's donation program allows both preferences to be satisfied without acrimony.
- randallsquared 15y agoYeah, I think it's obvious that Group A cares about raising Group B's taxes, rather than having an altruistic desire to donate their own money and somehow being unable to figure out how.
- JoachimSchipper 15y agoIf I donate $10 to the treasury, I get -$10 and the treasury gets +$10. If I can pass a $10 tax, I get -$10 and the treasury gets +$3 000 000. It's entirely reasonable to value one dollar in the treasury somewhere between one dollar in my wallet and 1/300 000 of a dollar in my wallet. [Note: I'm not an American.]
- temphn 15y agoThe thing is that people generally feel that taking someone else's money from their pocket at gunpoint is a bad thing. But when a third party, the IRS, does this at their behest then people think it is a good thing. No one would pay taxes if the IRS did not have weapons. It is a strange agency for a pacifist to embrace. I think people really don't give much thought to what the IRS actually is and what it does.