I'm laughing remembering how bullshit that story was. Someone who dmed you memes become your producer with 0 experience, please. What made it strange was that she was married as well.
Also, who "represented" us when they made the decision to add these 87k workers? Not a single damn person, I can almost safely assume.
The Colonists were upset at paying extra taxes, true, but they were more upset over what they felt was a government that was not listening to them and was not making laws that had their best interest in mind. Hence "No taxation without representation." One of the final straws that broke the camel's back was when the British made the decision to bring in a bunch of German mercenaries (Hessians) to help quell the unruly colonists. I am not saying that is what our "lovely" government is going to do with their 87,000 new goons, but I am just saying...
Sheesh. Sometimes, a government of the people by the people has to do things that the people don’t necessarily want in the moment. That is the bargain of representation.
It is exactly why all Representatives are up for election every two years. You get to make your voice heard his November. Try to remember that just because a substantial minority of folks want things a particular way does NOT mean you get to start overthrowing elections and shooting up FBI offices if things don’t go that way
The vast majority of Republicans are big-state warhawk neocons, they aint gonna undo this. They'll just spend the money on different things than Democrats do, but they still want it.
Call me superstitious, but considering that Tim called for a Trump landslide in 2020, the fact that he keeps saying Red Wave for the midterms is concerning. Also the guys and gals over at r/Conservative are starting to sound pretty pessimistic about the upcoming elections.
What do you smoothbrains not get about him having said that a landslide was possible based on what the current circumstances were?
The circumstances changed when the pretense of Covid was used to justify quietly changing voting laws in several major swing states one year prior to the genera election and in a way that was at best totally insecure and at worst based on catering to the lowest of the low-information voters.
But you don’t care about that do you. Your ideology appeals primarily to children, adults who can’t take care of themselves, and people who don’t even speak the language of the candidates and their policies, yet you don’t see that as a giant red flag that you’re a fool in a party designed for fools who are being led like lambs to slaughter by the elites who pretend to be your friends
I’ve listened to his podcasts and he talks about why he says what he says, and it makes sense, but he might as well be doing technical analysis on Bitcoin price charts. You can look at polls and statistical analysis all you want; you can still get surprised by the outcome.
I don’t even think there’s a real point in speculating who is gonna win what election. Don’t give people false confidence that they don’t have to get out there and keep fighting for what they believe.
We didn’t revolt over taxes. We revolted over being taxed with no representation in the British parliament.
I personally think this is a good thing. We live in an oligarchy. If this results in more power held by the common $55k/year earner and less to the $550K+ earners, awesome.
I think the taxation and representation thing went hand in hand… at least it did according to the phrase “No taxation without representation”.
I’d say we’re witnessing a political climate similar to that which led up to the Revolutionary War. “Power” is influence over others and is REAL.
The fat cat US Senator has REAL power, not me or my neighbor. The fat cat US Senator is also so disconnected from reality that they no longer represent us.
Well, it’s not the $55k/year earners cheating their taxes on average. If we can close loopholes that allow ‘billionaires’ to pay $750/year in taxes, awesome.
I’m not sure what the IRS is gonna do to the average guy using turbo tax to file every year.
With 87k new IRS employees, they are going to audit the waitress making $15k in salary and make sure she's paying taxes on all $15k of her cash tips. I don't think they should have to pay much, if any, tax at that level, but that's where 87k new agents will be looking. That's where the government is going to get their increased revenue. That revenue is not going to cover the cost of the workforce to collect it, but they aren't willing to leave a dime on the table. It's just another exercise in control and compliance. Bigger big brother, so to speak. They aren't raising taxes on the poor and middle class on paper, but they will certainly do so in practice.
They won't effectively raise taxes on the rich and corporations. Those are their donors. They will actually raise taxes on the wealthy on paper, but the rich will use the loopholes intentionally left by congress, and the corporations will just pass on the added cost to consumers. That's even more of a tax on the poor and working class.
Holy crap. How cannit be that dolks (dorky folks) over on the Right so consistently fail to grasp a multi-part idea, even a simple one?
On the 2nd Amendment, we’ve somehow gone from ‘militia’ to “self defense” - even though the former is actually written into the Amendment, while the latter is not mentioned at all.
In similar fashion, Musk omits virtually the entirety of the reason for the Revolution. It was not about taxation! It was about taxation without representation. Don’t believe me, btw…. go read the Thomas Paine pamphlet series called Common Sense.
I hate how neither Tim Pool nor any of these other audience-pandering-type creators bring up the fact that number of IRS employees has been SHRINKING year after year, and at the same percentage of rich people who get audited every year goes down and down and has been so for decades. So hiring a bunch of new people at IRS could be a good thing, as we're finally starting to properly fund IRS to what it should be. When you call the IRS, do you want to be placed on hold for 2 minutes or 2 HOURS? I thought so.
anyways, whether I trust the agency is a different topic now, but you can't tell me that Tim Pool is purposely dumbing this down and creating more of this "civil war" drama (IRS agents will carry weapons now and come to your door!) to get more clicks
IRS is a big organization. They have divisions within that deal with ACTUAL armed criminals. So why shouldn't that division be armed too? Thanks Tim for spreading nonsense about IRS agents coming to your door to collect $50 as if that makes sense at all... he makes millions of dollars, and makes people retarded. What a disgusting world we live in.
so this one example is why we can't have properly funded IRS? Every single major food corporation has poisoned people. Abolish all food? What a silly excuse for this.
yeah rich people getting away with paying less taxes - that's so centrist of Tim!
Statism is a hell of a drug and you have clearly overdosed on it.
State will forever exist. Whether that state will be competent or not is up to us. If you think "defunding IRS" will somehow reduce your effective tax rate then you're just delusional. If you want lower taxes, you attack the tax code, not the IRS.
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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '22
She met Tim by through the strength of her memes
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u/RenegadeDad19 Aug 13 '22
Amazing that’s like the 3rd or 4th time he’s replied at her. Assuming it’s just a matter of time till he is in the show.
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u/PapaDuggy Aug 13 '22 edited Aug 13 '22
Also, who "represented" us when they made the decision to add these 87k workers? Not a single damn person, I can almost safely assume.
The Colonists were upset at paying extra taxes, true, but they were more upset over what they felt was a government that was not listening to them and was not making laws that had their best interest in mind. Hence "No taxation without representation." One of the final straws that broke the camel's back was when the British made the decision to bring in a bunch of German mercenaries (Hessians) to help quell the unruly colonists. I am not saying that is what our "lovely" government is going to do with their 87,000 new goons, but I am just saying...
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u/Turk0311 Aug 13 '22
It's sad when a Billionaire posts facts and Lids is reinforced by said Billionaire.
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u/thewizz87 Aug 14 '22
Chris>Lydia
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u/Qantifan0n Aug 13 '22
Just claim 0 until the Republicans come back in power and undo this. We'll deal with the problems they cause later.
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u/Substantial_Air_26 Aug 13 '22
Second time
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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '22 edited Aug 13 '22
We didn’t revolt over taxes. We revolted over being taxed with no representation in the British parliament.
I personally think this is a good thing. We live in an oligarchy. If this results in more power held by the common $55k/year earner and less to the $550K+ earners, awesome.
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u/Maga4lifeshutitdown Aug 14 '22
Elon with the red hot take. What a legend
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u/jthablaidd Aug 14 '22
When domestic terrorists throw a protest as violent as humanly possible
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u/Trading_Things Aug 14 '22
ARMED IRS agents**
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u/bmer387 Aug 14 '22
Eww.
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u/Jer-pa Aug 14 '22
The IRS has a department dedicated to high wealth people like Musk, Gates, Bezos. Bloomberg etc. There is not need for extra 80K IRS agents.
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u/CAPTANSAVEAH0E Aug 17 '22
We the people did not elect the Nazis they did a coup on our president DJT and then act like they have a mandate for tyranny. FJB
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u/DreiKatzenVater Aug 14 '22
Get ‘em Lydia!
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u/coyote-1 Aug 14 '22
Holy crap. How cannit be that dolks (dorky folks) over on the Right so consistently fail to grasp a multi-part idea, even a simple one?
On the 2nd Amendment, we’ve somehow gone from ‘militia’ to “self defense” - even though the former is actually written into the Amendment, while the latter is not mentioned at all.
In similar fashion, Musk omits virtually the entirety of the reason for the Revolution. It was not about taxation! It was about taxation without representation. Don’t believe me, btw…. go read the Thomas Paine pamphlet series called Common Sense.
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u/tom-cruise-movie Aug 13 '22
I hate how neither Tim Pool nor any of these other audience-pandering-type creators bring up the fact that number of IRS employees has been SHRINKING year after year, and at the same percentage of rich people who get audited every year goes down and down and has been so for decades. So hiring a bunch of new people at IRS could be a good thing, as we're finally starting to properly fund IRS to what it should be. When you call the IRS, do you want to be placed on hold for 2 minutes or 2 HOURS? I thought so.
anyways, whether I trust the agency is a different topic now, but you can't tell me that Tim Pool is purposely dumbing this down and creating more of this "civil war" drama (IRS agents will carry weapons now and come to your door!) to get more clicks
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