Different social class different rules

As someone who has to pay back half of my COVID relief but so many rich people and corporations don't- I feel this deep in my black soul.

$7000 on top of my student loans👍

Quick question? How come you gave to pay half of it back? On what grounds?
I made a $10,000 payment to close out mine a few years ago. Turns out I was right that Biden wouldn't do anything meaningful on that front, and I was tired of being gouged on the interest.
I still support cancellation though. I wish we were spending 200 billion on that instead of another country's war.
- You should take a second to look up who is in the way of that happening, because it sure as hell isn't Biden.

We should subtract from the military’s budget anything they can’t explain on an audit.

"Why do we have to explain a $880,000 missile that bombed a villiage full of brown people? Or a $72,000 drone made out of consumer parts but the company is owned by my cousin?"

They know exactly where it went. Operation Freedom, abbreviated OF on the ledger...

it's worse than that, they don't know that they don't know. literally no one ever holds them to account, they've never been asked the question so why would they need the answer.
- Congress also throws more money at them than they even ask for.
- Probably bcz the military has all the guns. Who exactly is supposed to hold the group accountable when they could just point a weapon at you and your entire family?

Ha you can't even receive $50 of digital payments (venmo, cashapp, whatever) without passing an invasive KYC check. Fuck big brother.

I'm not reporting that someone sent me their share of the mortgage through an app rather than cash. Get fucked.

That’s a personal transaction and not business so you don’t have to claim it anyway.
- If you're paying a mortgage and someone is paying you for one of the rooms, as far as the IRS is concerned that is income 🙁
- Yeah you do it's still income...
  If someone else is paying you for your mortgage anything past the interest is considered income since it's paying down the principal.
  And you don't have to worry about reporting it venmo will already do that for you :/
you don't have to report anything, thats also why they do random audits.
- Venmo reports it

I'm honestly pretty upset about having to report "income" on reselling random old used shit out of my closet and garage on ebay all of the sudden.

Taxes have fucking been paid. This shit is not the same as wages and shouldn't be treated the same.

The $600 paypal/venmo/etc reporting thing has been postponed and is not a thing for this coming tax season.

Good, this is going to be so annoying. If I send my roommate $1000 to cover my portion of rent (which I used to do every month at my last place) it's not fucking "income" for them lol.

Now, my advice for those who die

Taxman!

Declare the pennies on your eyes

Taxman!

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The Pentagon: we don't know where $2 trillion went.

The IRS: you sent $600 on Venmo. Don't forget to report it.

It's all Stargate wars obviously.

I just got a notification from eBay that said they won't release my money from selling until I provide them with my SSN or tax ID because I've sold over $600 this year. It was probably like a total of $602 because I rarely ever sell anything on there except old tech stuff when I really need money.

That 'we don't know where 2 trillion went' is a myth--that number represents accounting reconciliations between their myriad of different archaic and highly secured systems. It doesn't mean that actual resources are missing or can't be accounted for.

I remember reports of literal pallets of cash going missing during desert storm
- "missing"

Sorry to be that person but this doesn't make sense for a couple legitimate reasons.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/6179467

For sure BS the DoD isn't really improving. Yet this is an apples to oranges comparison.

It's not about taxes, not really. It's the hypocritical and one-sided scrutiny of citizens vs corporations and the military industrial complex.
- It's still wrong. Even when not about taxes directly.
  It demonstrates either ignorance about government responsibilities, ignorance about GAP, or combination of both.
  People passing this around should do better to come up with an applicable comparison regarding oversight the IRS has. There are many examples.
  But the IRS isn't the GAO. Auditing the DoD will never be something the IRS handles.
My reading: Uncle Sam’s Ledger Logic:
$2 trillion vanishes into the Pentagon void? “Oops, slipped through the cracks!”
Your $600 Venmo transfer? “Caught you red-handed! Now, where’s our cut?”
On the other side of the meme, why shouldn't money obtained via a 3rd party platform need to be reported to the IRS? I don't understand the complaint.
Is your business suddenly special and tax-exempt just because you sell your custom knick-knacks on Craigslist on or accept venmo for your at-home dog grooming service or whatever?
- The joke is that they hold taxpayers to ridiculously high standards, to the point where the concept of $600 of unreported income is something the government will harass you for. While they can just accept billions of their own spending going unaccounted for without a second thought.
  And yes someone running their own small business struggling to survive is not worth taxing. Even if they were paying "what they owe" they would contribute nearly nothing compared to the rich people. And suffer far more for it.

And everyone is gonna downvote me for mentioning Monero as the real fucking solution.

No, I down voted you because you brought up votes at all. Begging for down votes is just as lame as begging for ups.
- But I work for the CIA too, man.
If a value overflow incident happened with Monero, it never would have been detected.
- Value is contribution. Not explotation. Hiding that level prevents exactly that level and is no longer manipulative. Especially not the proffesional wall street level of exactly that kind of slavery which totally cannot be done in capitolizm.
Spooky
- Told ya.

The bitching about the DoD is dumb. It's clearly a necessity with even bigger asshole nations being cunts.

"Accountability is dumb because China" 😵‍💫
- Oh right, the US is still out creating vassel states 🙄

"We don't know where 2 trillion went" is a headline similar to the ones we'll be seeing a few years after this debacle in Ukraine.

Weird example, as you're saying pretty explicitly exactly where the money went, and plenty of people would be fine with it
- Well Gary Webb would have had a good argument about the CIA's history of exactly that but he commuted suicide by shooting himself in the head. Twice. Two weeks before he was going to court as a journalist with evidence that the CIA was dealing cocaine to America.