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Enshittification

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Cant imagine making 30 k a year and having to pay even 1600 in taxes. This is saying it will increase that much.

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[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.org 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

And the toothless knuckledraggers who'll be hit the hardest by this shit will thank the Führer for making America great again.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

They will. Because when they lose everything to his policies, he will toss them the scraps of what they once had, and they will see him as their king.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 23 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, I can image.even more regressive Republican tax cuts. It isn't like this is unusual for them or something unique to Trump. It is just more of the same shifting of the tax and cost burden down the economic ladder.

[–] couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Trump v1 did increase the standard deduction for everyone. It's the only good thing he's ever done that I can list off the top of my head.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

There is zero chance that he came up with the idea or had anything to do with that increase that happened while he was in office.

[–] Kompressor@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago

The 'Food Web' of this civilization and many others on this planet make absolutely no fucking sense its morbidly hilarious.

[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

Well, fuck.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 21 hours ago

America’s largest, consistently profitable corporations saw their effective tax rates fall from an average of 22.0 percent to an average of 12.8 percent after the Trump tax law went into effect in 2018.

The 296 largest and consistently profitable U.S. corporations in this study paid $240 billion less in taxes from 2018 to 2021 than if they had continued to pay the effective rates they’d paid before the Trump tax law.

While profits for the largest, continuously profitable U.S. corporations rose by 44 percent after passage of the Trump tax law, their federal tax bills dropped by 16 percent.

The number of these corporations paying tax rates of less than 10 percent increased from 56 to 95 after the Trump tax law went into effect.

Many of the largest and most well-known corporations in the country — including Walmart, Verizon, Disney, and Meta — had the largest tax reductions after the Trump tax law went into effect.

https://itep.org/corporate-taxes-before-and-after-the-trump-tax-law/

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Needs a source to go with it

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

it's a good thing I'm not paying federal taxes this year then.

[–] sunshine@lemmy.ml 3 points 21 hours ago

Is this for individuals or households?

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world -4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (5 children)

If everyone collectively stopped paying taxes, this problem gets fixed pretty easily. As it is, I have no plans to pay any more into the Dipshit in Chief fund from this moment forward.

America will get my money when America can show that it can be responsible with it.

They can add a 200% sales tax.

What are you gonna do? Grow your own food?

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[–] errer@lemmy.world -4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Where exactly is the dividing line between tax break and tax increase? Not at all clear from the diagram

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