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AdeptusDakkatist t1_j87aesw wrote

Reply to comment by KungFuHamster in Universal Basic Services in the US? by [deleted]

Yeah.....just eliminate all the tax loopholes. That's so easy. Then remove the special status religion has enjoyed since the founding. That'll go over so well. No revolts will be had. No one will die. Such a smart idea šŸ« 

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Dan_Caveman t1_j87bcav wrote

Do you suppose all the ā€œrevoltsā€ you speak of would kill more people than currently die of hunger, homelessness, poverty, etc.? Thatā€™s a pretty high bar.

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AdeptusDakkatist t1_j87bmrq wrote

I may be insane, but I genuinely believe that the Bible belt alone would kill more Americans than starvation, homelessness, and poverty. Just my opinion, but I believe that revoking religious tax exemption would in fact lead to war, and in turn far more death.

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jdragun2 t1_j87fuac wrote

I think pastors are going to have a harder time using their profit margins to motivate their congregations to war. Also, war with who? How about where? You give way too much credit to America's bible belt.

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AdeptusDakkatist t1_j87gkta wrote

War with the federal government. Again, maybe I am giving them too much credit, but if those same pastors would frame "the government" as a satanic force of (expletives for abortion, gay rights, globalization, diversity, etc.).

It would only take a few bad people in a few key positions of influence to take advantage of a bad situation. I hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong, and this is all schizophrenic nonsense, but I would ask you to spend some time on the fringes of Odyssey and Bitchute, and tell me I'm wrong.

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hlessi_newt t1_j87fxxw wrote

the bandaid is gonna have to get ripped off eventually.

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Still_Frame2744 t1_j87k4uj wrote

Only stupid people would die on those hills.

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AdeptusDakkatist t1_j89nw2w wrote

And do you think those "stupid people" will just lay down and die, or do you think they'll crack open the gun safe and take a few (explicit terms for progressives) with them?

You can dismiss their intelligence. You can't deny their access, and pretelection for the use of, firearms.

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Freethecrafts t1_j87eoik wrote

You could get trillions by removing the statute of limitations on tax crimes.

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WollCel t1_j87f285 wrote

This would have zero unintended fallout and would really help strengthen the confidence in the US legal system

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Freethecrafts t1_j87f9lb wrote

Iā€™m good with it. There are whales who disappear for seven years, then magically reappear. The level of investigation it would take to find these people is grade school level.

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WollCel t1_j87frxi wrote

Do you think that perhaps the issue may not be with the laws and rather the investigators? Iā€™m going to give you a hint that the people who end up getting hammered by the federal government and prosecutors arenā€™t the ones with legal teams and financial firms behind them.

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Freethecrafts t1_j87gcv8 wrote

Donā€™t you think flipping the script and changing the rules that allow the whales to violate the system is a better tact than leaving things in place?

The investigators are tied up in red tape and thousand page returns. Youā€™re looking at number of ā€œauditsā€ to declare the system is rigged and the people investigating are corrupt. The IRS has nation state level computer programs to check simple returns. Every time someone misplaces a dollar, miscounts dependents, tries to claim someone elseā€™s dependent, or even counts wrong an exception is generated. Then the IRS sends out a notice of correction and that counts as one of your numbers. People with tax attorneys are far less likely to make simple arithmetic errors, but they do have the means to obfuscate or disappear. The way youā€™re counting is wrong in how youā€™re going about claiming corruption.

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