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Just another obvious sign of the drive to privatizing everything. I find it pretty amazing that conservatives would be against Direct File since the government
by FollowingTheDao 2y ago
Just another obvious sign of the drive to privatizing everything.
I find it pretty amazing that conservatives would be against Direct File since the government is forcing people to pay taxes shouldn't the way to pay those taxes not be another tax?
- acdha 2y agoThe current Republican budget proposal incurs roughly five trillion dollars in additional debt and service cuts, all to allow tax cuts which mostly go to the top 10%: https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/2/27/fy2025-house-budget-reconciliation-and-trump-tax-proposals-effects https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/2/27/fy202... If you went to the average person and asked whether they’d like to have services like Medicaid and SNAP cut so their senior management can pay less in taxes, they’d say no. If you demonize the concept of tax collection, however, then they might go for it because they’re reacting out of fear rather than thinking analytically.
- gs17 2y agoThey're okay with it when it's a "tax" paid to corporations.