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Lol love the complete lack of evidence with just a big ol dose of non sequiter fear-mongering, they MIGHT come for you next!!
Okay. Audit me. I have W-2 wages and take a standard deduction. Like why are every day people afraid of being audited.
Because it's a huge hassle and you could end up being fined if they find something they don't like.
The vast majority of people do not have tax returns complicated enough to be worried about an audit. If you're going through the process of itemizing your deductions, keep your receipts and have stuff saved and backed up. It's not hard.
If you're lying on your taxes hoping you don't get audited, that's your problem. The same way if you're driving 20 over the speed limit and get a ticket. You knew the risk and did it anyways.
The speeding analogy is my go-to example. Many people go a little bit over and it's not a huge deal. Some people go 20mph under and they're just weird. Sometimes jerks get away with going 100mph and then you get a ticket for rolling a stop sign. Is what it is, most reasonable people are fine, or you can roll the dice and see what happens.
I'll happily put up with it if it means the 1% finally get to pay their fair share
I love that Republicans seem to have fully embraced a fear campaign based in the idea that if the rich can be forced to obey the law that yOu mIghT bE nExT as though they aren't also the people who gave police broad, sweeping powers to kick in our doors for any or no reason, to seize our money and then make us prove that we didn't commit crimes to get it, to engage in warrantless mass surveillance, to establish huge swaths of America where the 4th amendment just doesn't count if you "look like an illegal immigrant", to establish fetus checkpoints at state borders, to make a dog's opinion legally admissible in court if and only if that dog thinks you've committed a crime, and they're trying to let the police into your bedroom to make sure you're fucking correctly (in a cishet christian way).
We who have been overpoliced our entire lives know what they mean when they say "they might come for you next". They mean that the police might overstep their bounds as thieftakers and thugs to keep the minorities in line and start coming for Real Americans (cishet white men) just because of a few little felonies.
Wow, that was wonderfully said.
100% agree, these are the same people who said about the patriot act that if you don't have anything hide you've nothing to be afraid of. Or, he should have just complied or he wouldn't have been murdered by the cops. Etc
Love the fear mongering for something that A) already happens, B) shouldn't be an issue for people that are in the up and up and C) should be music to the ears of members of the "law and order" party.
But but but doesn't the IRS just make stuff up and take your money?
I didn't catch that part at first. Give me a friggin break. What a load of FUD.
These are probably the same people who say if you don't have anything to hide you've nothing to be afraid of.