Because companies lobby Congress to prohibit major IRS restructuring and spending. If the IRS had auto filing and a bigger budget, it would make more money than ever before.

The IRS could go after and audit rich people while the common person just gets a check in the mall from their returns. Maybe even no check, as the returns are only from miscalculations by the federal system, which is due to a bad system in place.

We need a federal tax system in the US. No one likes paying taxes but we do. The IRS is the center of that for the Feds. And the Republicans gut it because it's easy to say "I'll lower your taxes" but not solve where the money comes from.

Legalized bribery is only bad when the other team is in office. When your team is bribed, it's handy so they can run again in 4 years. Just don't ask them to do any campaign promises that go against their donors.

It is funny that it's only an issue in Lemmy that Trump is doing it. Meanwhile the IRS has been stuck doing this for decades because of corporate lobbying from Intuit.

This as much of a regression to about 2023. When America was already behind on tax filing since the 1980s compared to every other country. Even the "shithole" nations Trump hates have had better tax systems for their citizens.

And that's why we have them here in the states. Right? ...Oh wait.

I had an interaction with one of their mods and it was very disappointing to see them so confidently on the side of silencing voices speaking up about genocide.

Was it JeffW or JordanLund? Both of those dudes can't help defend genocide. Especially JL, he openly hates Black Lives Matter.

Sometimes I get the feeling lemmy.world is run by a bunch of centrists who’s hobby it is to undermine leftism because they are afraid of leftwing beliefs exactly the way pathetic conservatives are, and it makes it hard to take the entire community seriously.

And they call us the Russian Psyop/bot. I've had so many people say things like "I'm a leftist, but [defending the most conservative positions possible]." At least .ml is honest in their intentions.

Some of the prominent very active low effort posters like Pugjesus have absolutely trash views when you actually get into a conversation about their beliefs.

And he's so fucking smug! He will defend his trash opinions, say he's the smartest one in the room, and then act like he's the victim when he says something like "I don't think you should ally with these people when ICE comes knocking" or "I don't have to respect the pronouns of people I don't like."

Lemmy.world is a majority of my blocklist. I like a handful of users from it. But the mods and admins have cultivated a inverted MAGA mentalitt around themselves. Anytime you critize their favorite thing, you'll be banned and blocked. And then they claim it's evil when .ml does the exact same thing.

AOC makes Trump and his shit-lickers afraid. Pelosi and Schumer don't spark any fear.

And the DNC keeps the ones who he can rally around the flag to blame for anything bad. Because no one really likes Pelosi and Schumer. People like AOC.

Remember when calling them weird was working, making them cower and the media loved it? And then they just... Stopped because how dare anyone be rude to fascists.

Mao had the right idea about landlords because they all act like you.

Where was the outrage when AIPAC dropped money bombs on progressive primaries to silence opposition against Israel and the Genocide of Palestinians?

Well when people called it out, Reddit and Lemmy said anyone who saw this was:

• Antisemitic for not wanting murder
• A Tankie/Russian Bot
• Somehow wanting Trump to win by having better candidate to win against Trump
• Sore losers who didn't like a "fair" election like Trump
• A Bernie bro who hates $THING

If you look at the lemmy.world modlog, so many people calling out this were removed and banned, and then the userbase acted dumbfounded when the legitimate users were "quiet" after being banned, so it verified their bias of "everyone who disagrees with what my favorite political tells me is a bot/troll".

Might as well make a bet if the sun will rise tomorrow.

If they fought against fascists like they do to progressives, Trump wouldn't have had any chance at even the nomination in 2016.

Trying to burn digital books. Fascism in 2025.

"Here's a long detailed rebuttal to your badly informed opinion."

"Ad hominem!"

Reddit and its consequences was a mistake.

Well if the DNC doesn't want to win and get Trump out, they don't have to run a candidate. If they want to split the vote from an engaged voter base wanting something new to kick out the fascist, that's on them.

"We can't run a woman, America doesn't want one as president!"

"Here's AOC having some of the biggest rallies in recorded American history, showing people are wanting to follow her lead."

"...Well she's also brown, so clearly no one wants to follow her for that too."

I wonder why they don't want AOC to run as a popular front runner, but have Harris have a second chance at losing again...

At least Hillary has some cajones, Harris never gave me that impression.

Hillary had years of experience on the federal level. Senator and then Head of State. She was used to making choices that had a big impact.

I will always remember Harris for her DNC nomination debate performance. She personally called out Biden's racist policies and how it impacted her. Showing that out of touch white men have lasting impacts on generations children. It was her highest moment. If you check articles they'll say that was one of the highlights of the event.

And then became Biden's VP. Just willing to ignore how he personally wrote a racist bill that harmed you because it's a position of power? Alright. That's sure a message about your morals.

And when asked about why by Steven Colbert: "It was a debate!"

They've gone into hiding so that way when 2028 rolls around they can pretend they were fighting the entire time, and how this time they need to tip the scales in running a candidate who's anti abortion and willing to deport as many brown people to sway the mythical non-Trump republicans.

So she'll win a primary this time, right?

Famously was a strong contender across all of 2020 and won her home state easily!

Wait she fucking flopped in a sea of other milquetoast candidates, which is why they all dropped out before Super Tuesday to help Biden.

Anything a progressive says is evil and must be deplatformed. Anything a Republican thinks must be platformed and normalized.

This place isn’t worth my time or effort anymore.

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