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Why is it that when I pay 20$ less on my taxes, the IRS sends me a letter to make sure I pay the right amount, but when the government has to spend that money,
by darth_avocado 4y ago
Why is it that when I pay 20$ less on my taxes, the IRS sends me a letter to make sure I pay the right amount, but when the government has to spend that money, $100B is not a big deal.
- voisin 4y agoBecause taxes are meant to keep you as a serf.
- black6 4y agoYup. The income tax was fundamentally designed to prevent the accumulation of wealth.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> The income tax was fundamentally designed to prevent the accumulation of wealth. Progressive income tax in the abstract was conceptualized to prevent the concentration (persistent inequality of distribution) of wealth, not its accumulation. The actual US implementation has been tuned very carefully to avoid doing even that, via (among other mechanisms) the preferential treatment of capital gains.
- jalk 4y agoBecause very little human labor was involved in determining that you payed too little tax, but proving the fraud currently does