Stumblinbear

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Okay but RIGHT NOW they don't know. Sure it's possible for them to track it, but they do not, and the infrastructure isn't set up to do that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

They didn't have my new address until I filed my taxes with my new address.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

They don't share that information unless absolutely necessary. All government agencies hold their cards pretty close to themselves for legal and liability reasons. The IRS will complain that you've both claimed a dependent because you have to include that dependent's information and they can tell when you both try to claim the same one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

That's absolutely not the case. They lobby to prevent the IRS making their own version of TurboTax, not lobbying to make the tax code more complex. Taxes are complex because we have little real oversight but a lot of deductions and credits. The IRS literally cannot track everything they offer deductions for, so it goes largely on the honor system until something seems fishy.

If you have a house, you have deductions. If you added solar to your house, you have deductions. If you bought an electric car or a hybrid, you had deductions for a while there. If you rent you have deductions in some states. You have to list your dependents for credits.

The IRS is incapable of tracking all of this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

And I just don't understand how I can walk around so wrong that I end up in jail for trespassing, or vibrate my vocal cords in such a wrong way that I end up in prison for "trying to rob a bank." smh

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It mostly works by forcing companies to pay back their loans rather than keeping them indefinitely, which pulls excess money out of the economy instead of it circulating continuously. When interest rates were near zero and the reserve requirement was dropped for banks, a shitload of this lending was done multiple times, so they're hoping to effectively claw that back

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

... metal ones?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You mean by.... Fixing the bus lines and adding more public transit?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately it's not a "Lemmy issue" it's an "Internet issue." You're more likely to get engagement from those that disagree rather than from those who already agree.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I don't think being inflammatory is helping the situation. I've been surprised before, and just because I'm net negative doesn't mean lurkers haven't read it and listened.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

To be fair I didn't link it directly in my comment (though I doubt it would've changed the outcome). Thanks for tracking that down for me, though!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Imo being out with friends and being out with business partners are two totally different states. I can relax with friends, but being at work functions (even if I consider the co-workers I'm with friends) I have to be "on" and I just end up exhausted, even if I end up doing exactly the same thing.

I wouldn't underestimate the psychological aspect, especially when you have to watch what you say more often than around friends

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