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[–] 56 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I mean, we get lots of tax breaks, they're just highly dependent on increasingly arcane rulesets that are ever-changing and still designed to keep you on the edge of poverty. And then they're paid for with higher taxes in years following.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    If you're a "company" you get to offset money coming in with expenses and even in the most honest of systems only pay tax on the difference (i.e. the profits).

    If you're an "individual" you pay taxes on any money coming in and cannot offset it with expenses.

    So even at the structural level the system is designed to be incredibly unfair. That shit you describe is just adding insult to injury.

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