I am disappointed that today I’m paying taxes to fund government efforts to stop preventing disease and starvation overseas rather than paying taxes to support government efforts to prevent disease and starvation overseas.
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Backwards priorities – FUNDING neglect and obstruction over basic human decency and global well-being. #Massroots fights to change those priorities & reinvest in people. #TaxDay #Priorities #ForeignAid #HumanityFirst #InvestInLife
I got a refund…but I feel the same way since getting a refund just means that you paid more than what was required! However, I🩵🫵🏼 for paying…as I’m sure that DJT won’t delay & soon will be sending more innocent people to El Salvador to be imprisoned for nothing more than…because they feel like it🙄🙄🙄🙄
congress is the keeper of the purse. did they authorize giving el salvadore $6 billion, did they authorize paying DOGE participants salary. congress, reighn in the madman. david, miss you on MSNBC. where yah been?
“Say the name! It’s a Trump Fascist Government! The choice has been given to you. Put your tax checks into a separate escrow account made out only to The IRS. Who’s going to monitor or account for taxes paid or unpaid in the IRS? ‘No one is in charge or has personnel to pay taxpayer’s a refund.”
I hate this administration. Everything it believes in, everything it's done, and and the damage it's done. I really hate that my taxes support these MFers.
I am not paying that shit.. Come take my couch or my 30 year old truck with your underfunded discombobulated ass workforce who are constantly in fear of losing their jobs under this regime.. I'll pick back up when our collective constitutional rights aren't being violated every day..
Exactly, as a taxpayer for generations/decades I feel the same way and am being disenfranchised of having my tax dollars to help other which is where I want my money to go.
Withholding is the problem there. Some merit in those who pay on their own recognizance boycotting to jam the system and the courts, but the level of buy in would have to be very high. No less than 10%, probably closer to 25%.
I’m disgusted that I am paying taxes without representation (my district’s rep has been MIA for 16 years!) AND that my tax dollars are now funding terrorism.
Yes! Congress just sits there letting itself be defied and steamrolled in every way!! Republicans shouldn’t even have the house but for their NC 3 seat gerrymander 😒 And these are supposed to be the “small government” people
garsh, I think my tax check fell on the floor of my car and maybe I absentmindedly forgot to swing by the post office. Also, aren’t I supposed to not trust the post office now?Also, is the online portal even ok to use? i mean with the DOGE boys and all. Hmmm what to do? *yawns. sips beer*
As with The Holocaust, the numbers are simply too big to wrap one’s head around. Perversely, if you try to home in on a couple human examples, detractors will claim that’s all you could find.
This is going to be a bumpy ride. The same day the IRS cashed my check it was in the news FEMA turned down Washington State’s request for relief. So let’s see just how much of tax payer funds Musk and Trump are getting.
It sickens me to know I'm paying taxes to fund El Salvador to run a brutal concentration camp holding hundreds of people whose only crime was coming to America in hopes of building a better life.
I long for the days when my taxes supported preventing diseases and starvation overseas.
Can I get a refund for the hundreds of thousands of taxes my wife and I paid for a stable government and institutions the last 40 years ? Can politicians and some judges refund their $ given they completely abducted their responsibilities ?
The US has 17% of the worlds Covid deaths with 4% of it's population because of anti-vax/science brainwashing. MAGA is a suicide cult who want to take us with them.
I’m enraged that I had to write a check to a government that is using my money to fund an unjust war in Gaza, deport human beings to foreign concentration camps with no due process at all, and pay the salaries of people hell bent on dismantling our government and destroying democracy.
We expect our politicians to be strong and stand up , while we obediently follow along and pay our taxes and go to work. I’m not paying taxes until this is over.
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Everything about it feels wrong especially since our fascist president is making all of the decisions about what gets funded and to what degree instead of Congress.
Sorry, but you did not quite get that right -- I believe the last "overseas" should be replaced with the words "at home".
ALSO! In 'historic' American tradition, might I suggest you RESIST by NOT paying your taxes, since (after all) Trump would like to be treated like a "king"??
I am supposedly receiving refunds. If that really happens. I have to say that I was nervous to hit"send". It's creepy thinking some young thug is seeing my personal info.
Today literally not one person voted for Musk to do that. He was appointed by Trump. Also, USAID and the peace corp and every other soft power out reach program is dead. Now gop is killing cdc, nih, DHS, education, irs. Personally, I’d still rather be saving people here and abroad. It’s the GOP.
I am thinking the same. My taxes are essentially funding The Doge Goons to stage a cyberattack within our gov agencies. They are gutting them, stealing data, & firing our dedicated federal government experts.
I pay taxes & i expect to breathe clean air, drink clean water, get accurate health data
Me too David. I used to think paying taxes was the patriotic thing to do. My taxes supported things I believe in like assistance for the less fortunate. Trump has flipped the script to now my taxes go to support the fortunate.
Exactly. And as Trump threatens to pull education funding from specific states and withholds FEMA funds, I am wondering why we are paying federal taxes at all.
Since they're cutting everything to the bare bones, why are taxes being taken out of each of our paychecks? We are not going to get Medicare, SS, Medicaid, our 401ks are taking a dive into the abyss. I think we should get our entire earnings in our paychecks, every payday. No services, no taxes.
The way to do that is claim 6 defendants in your W4 for little to no federal tax taken.. just because to put the $ aside Incase they hire back the 30k+ IRS agents
Problem is if you don't pay your taxes that gives Trump an excuse to have you arrested and possibly sent to El Salvador. He would do it without batting an eye. He is thinking of sending home grown criminals to El Salvador. Told the dictator to build 5 more prisons.
The states need to start keeping the taxes and negotiate something with the federal government as to how much we pay them and for what. I cannot pay to send innocent people to hell. Nope. Can't do it.
Same here. The same amount every year and our tax payment keeps going up. Plus $158 each every month for Medicare B and $300 a month each for a supplemental plan. People think Medicare is free...ha!
So stop being a simp and withhold your taxes. If you pay your taxes, you are choosing to support what they are being used for. People who whing but do not act to stop the evils they whing about...well, that's just collaborating, isn't it? 😡
Horrible news: AmeriCorps NCCC has been shuttered. AmeriCorps has changed so many lives for the better. What a loss for our nation with literally ZERO gain. WHY?
I’m paying my taxes today too, and I do not support our government in any of their efforts. And I’m paying a lot more than musk and I’m paying tens of thousands more than Trump.
I'm sickened that there is no student loan debt forgiveness while a convicted Felon sucks up our tax dollars pretending he can golf & ElonTheCon gets more government contracts🖕🏽 📣Student loan debt forgiveness CONTRIBUTES to American prosperity‼️
Your Federal Taxes Pay for Nothing! All "Gov't Spending" comes from the Creation of Money at the Fed, Taxes are to pull Money out of the U.S. Economy to allow for continued Gov't Spending, your SS Tax does not Pay For your Future Benefits either. #MMT https://youtu.be/tEiNLmg2tYA?si=rlkMjn__pqIxSi8j
Not getting much value for our $. If all of us that voted for her pulled our funds till we get satisfaction I am sure that would get their attention. 80m returns not showing up.
And to pay scumbags like elon musk & his basement dwelling incels, tens of millions of our $$ to steal our data & decimate our govt. jail had better be in their future.
I realize an extension does not save you from penalities if you owe, but look where we are. Time for big moves. Who knows where this country will even be in 6 months when they want to collect on the extension? I WILL NOT PAY FOR A FASCIST REGIME WHO DISAPPEARS PEOPLE!
No American should ever pay taxes again while innocent people are being flown off to gulags with the threat it will be American citizens, next. Period.
I had not, but will follow them now.
The IRS has been decimated by doge & I think they'd be better focused going after the big cheats for their monies than us little fish.
And we could have an impact. Just a thought.
I filed but didn't pay because I'm not sure if there is a functional IRS dept anymore. I'll pay if they bill me, which will be the equivalent of wiping my butt with a cheese grater.
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Millions of us are pissed we paying taxes. For example, teachers are writing checks to the federal government. Everybody knows their pay is crap and that they spend a lot of their own money on the students. The Republican budget offers additional tax cuts for the 1%.
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I didn’t sign up for any of this shit.
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They’ve turned into Stalin
It's like Kristi Noem shooting her dog.
He imagines that cruelty makes him look tough.
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I long for the days when my taxes supported preventing diseases and starvation overseas.
RESIST! 💙🇺🇸😎
Be brave and resist now.
He told them not to protect themselves or anyone else, and a large portion darwin awarded themselves and/or innocent bystanders. Usually family.
I believe that was a test to see if they would jump off the cliff when he said so, if he lost the election.
They gave him his answer.
We could LITERALLY Shut the Country Down....
But Americans have been TAUGHT Complacency...
Oh fuck it. You know.
Lmfao
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Yep. Fuck it. We all know this ain’t happening.
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I ask to see if I should care or laugh in your face
The golf is tremendous. The greatest.
ALSO! In 'historic' American tradition, might I suggest you RESIST by NOT paying your taxes, since (after all) Trump would like to be treated like a "king"??
🫖🥳😄 ... 🥊🥊🥊🥊🥊😎
I pay taxes & i expect to breathe clean air, drink clean water, get accurate health data
Why? Fear? Conditioning?
We the People….
Federal taxes keep the assholes employed.
Impossible.
I certainly do not feel *represented*
No taxation without representation 🤔
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Paying
Taxes
The IRS has been decimated by doge & I think they'd be better focused going after the big cheats for their monies than us little fish.
And we could have an impact. Just a thought.
Who’s going to audit you, Grok?
are we great yet?
American Democracy
WHY aren't republicans fighting to defend
DEMOCRACY ????
RULE of LAW ???
This feels like an AMERICAN CRISIS
facing ALL parties
Help us understand?
Benjamin Franklin
I don't pay taxes to fund having due process rights taken away & people sent to concentration camps.
As taxpayers, we should have a say where our money goes!
If we all stop paying our taxes then THEY are in trouble.
My plans are to do exactly the same as this, all of this.
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🍊fuck defies SCOTUS