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Sep. 29th, 2020 07:34 pmSunday evening as soon as she heard the tax returns were out, mom came in, crowing already. Trump's not paying taxes has seemed to have touched a nerve, if social media is any indication. I ended up skimming through the NYT's summary. But all I could think was that anyone who didn't have the horse sense to already be voting for Biden at this point was extremely unlikely to either read or believe any of it. Had it come out four years ago, it could've brought him down then, but events have proceeded long past that stage nowadays.
Of course, I've never actually been hit with the kind of huge all-at-once tax bill that my mom's dealt with multiple times, especially since the GOP tax scam passed-except I know already I'm going to be next year, thanks to Trump's little stunt with suspending what us federal employees are supposed to be putting into social security. Though even without that particular deduction, I have about what Trump pays in yearly taxes deducted in federal taxes from my salary each month. (That doesn't take state taxes into account.)
Even so, what really hit me about the whole thing was the slipperiness and how much he's gotten away with just by keeping the IRS tied up in court. This when I've spent this entire pandemic fretting about the error in my taxes I don't know when and where to fix because the clinic we got them done at never reopened near us. This is a game rich people benefit by and force the rest of us to play and usually lose at.
Of course, I've never actually been hit with the kind of huge all-at-once tax bill that my mom's dealt with multiple times, especially since the GOP tax scam passed-except I know already I'm going to be next year, thanks to Trump's little stunt with suspending what us federal employees are supposed to be putting into social security. Though even without that particular deduction, I have about what Trump pays in yearly taxes deducted in federal taxes from my salary each month. (That doesn't take state taxes into account.)
Even so, what really hit me about the whole thing was the slipperiness and how much he's gotten away with just by keeping the IRS tied up in court. This when I've spent this entire pandemic fretting about the error in my taxes I don't know when and where to fix because the clinic we got them done at never reopened near us. This is a game rich people benefit by and force the rest of us to play and usually lose at.
