DOGE to Shutter DOJ Tax Division

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-to-shutter-doj-tax-division/sharetoken/8fd16926-1f40-48c0-bfde-62115fa2135c

This means no tax enforcement against billionaires.

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15 Comments

andyburke@fedia.io · 104 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Billionaires keep closing pressure release valves. They seem very much to want to find out what happens if there is no legal means to stop them.

Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works · 55 pts · 1y (4 replies)

So far only one ceo has died. Sounds like they are winning.

jjjalljs@ttrpg.network · 28 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Every day I hope that someone will shoot everyone working at DOGE, and all the republicans, but people tell me peaceful revolution is actually more effective long term. I don't know if we really have a long term to work with, but that's what I'm told.

Nofearfrontier@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

There is no such thing as peaceful revolution. People who tell you that never read history.

LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Didn't a tiger shark kill one recently?

HK65@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y

There was a second attempt since

nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 44 pts · 1y (5 replies)

And for the working class? Who's going to audit us, AI?

silence7@slrpnk.net · 26 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Pretty much. Wages are reported to the IRS by your employer, so you can't really evade taxes on them.

Sanctus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Thats if you're a salary person. Plenty of gigs out here that dont operate like that.

silence7@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Sure, if you're getting paid cash with no 1099 and no w2, you can get away with it. Most people, not so much.

massacre@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

In very few lines of work is getting paid cash going to get you the inome that would trigger DOJ Tax Evasion profiling. The only one I can think of is extra-legal. Drugs. It's drugs.

Sanctus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Because 1099s are infallible and totally not filled out by the individual. If you're in the US taxes are designed for fraud. I'd agree with you if I were in a real country with real tax laws.

BigMacHole@lemm.ee · 41 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The BEST way to Reduce Our Deficit is to SHUTTER the People Responsible for getting Taxes that the Country can Use!

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Unless they straight up lie, and they're not above that, there's a 0% chance government revenues will not go down.

theluckyone@discuss.online · 9 pts · 1y

If enough of us just stop paying federal taxes...