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      And if you’re in France, don’t use TurboTax, use the official government website that calculates everything for you reliably every year :o

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      Unfortunately, the tool WealthSimple provides used to be called SimpleTax. It was made by a team in Vancouver and operated as donationware. You could file your taxes then choose however much you wanted to donate to them for the tool. They promised that they’d never sell your data, and never charge for the tool.

      But… then they sold out to WealthSimple, who of course removed that promise to never sell your data.

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    If you believe everything should come with a price, you should vote for those who will give you the most money for voting for them, which is probably the democrats.

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    Turbo tax made 1.6 BILLION in income. And that’s not enough. They need to lobby and change the landscape of the countries tax system to generate even more profit on top of the profit they already made.

    This isn’t capitalism anymore this is something else entirely. It’s a metal disorder. A disease.

    https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-and-others-charged-at-least-14-million-americans-for-tax-prep-that-should-have-been-free-audit-finds#%3A~%3Atext=The+company's+TurboTax+unit+generated%2CSterling+Auty%2C+who+covers+Intuit.

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        Line goes up means businesses are taking advantage of customers.

        Line goes down means customers are taking advantage of businesses.

        Why are customers cheering when line goes up and angry when line goes down? Oh yeah, they’re useful idiots.

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          Well also, most people have been forced into a retirement system that makes line go up make everyday person happy. Cutting off the nose to something…

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      This isn’t capitalism anymore this is something else entirely.

      That’s the thing, it is capitalism. It’s always been about those who have more exploiting those who have less.

      The problem is this generation of workers has been duped into believing that corporate profits are a good thing, rather than an indication of workers getting taken advantage of.

      It’s all bass-ackwards by design. I stopped trying to find rhyme or reason and just settled on “most people are dumb as shit.”

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    i see people are greedy and dumb so they vote one of two parties and pretend it is a democracy? nancy pelosi will rule longer than the elisabeth IV. i fear. did any human order airstrikes in more countries you are not at war with than obama? both parties are nationalistic and selfish like their voters. and thats why it is doomed to fail. both parties cam be seen as collapsed. republicans are taken hostage by maga and dems so crooked they should stop calling themselves democrats.

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      Sure, Timmy is stabbing you repeatedly. And last time he gave it a bit of a twist. Which looked painful.

      Bht remember when Great slapped you?

      Yeah. Sounds like both of these people are terrible.

      Now if you excuse me, its my turn to get stabbed. So excited.

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      Decreasing the exemptions increases the amount of taxes withheld… For most people your advice as written just means letting the govt keep your tax refund every year.

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      Unless you’re wealthy enough to afford a bevy of attorneys, they will still go after you.

      Shit, they’ll probably start using AI to determine who the easiest targets are (spoiler: it’s always the working class).

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    Hypocrite warmongering Robbie Reich forgets to mention Intuit Inc always pays more than 70% to Dems.

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    your political system is already based on legalized bribery and this is where you draw the line? lmao. Lobbying has destroyed america for a century.

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      Legalized bribery is only bad when the other team is in office. When your team is bribed, it’s handy so they can run again in 4 years. Just don’t ask them to do any campaign promises that go against their donors.

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        What other team? A non shit country has like 10 parties that come and go regularly as time moves on.

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      This is from 1889. Literally nothing has changed. Go back 1000 years and it’s the same fucking shit. Even 3000 years ago in Egypt. It’s always rich vs everybody else just in different outfits.

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        I want another Teddy Roosevelt in office.

        Fuck man even after trust busting, those companies were then and still are stupid big and powerful and maddeningly enriching to the 1%

        At least we have shiny toys now built on the backs of global labor exploitation. That’s cool.

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          We really should be moving to direct voting.

          Representative democracies are tool of the ruling class to subvert control from the working class.

          The fact <0.00001% of the people you come across mention direct voting in a democracy should be an indicator at how successful the ruling class has been at controlling the narrative.

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        I’ve realized why this is the case.

        Nations are modern-day fiefdoms. If you’re not a member of the ruling class, then you’re not supposed to have any say in how a nation is run.

        Class traitors need to be ostracized more often.

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        Karl Marx
        The Civil War in France
        Written: July 1870 - May 1871

        Nowhere do “politicians” form a more separate, powerful section of the nation than in North America. There, each of the two great parties which alternately succeed each other in power is itself in turn controlled by people who make a business of politics, who speculate on seats in the legislative assemblies of the Union as well as of the separate states, or who make a living by carrying on agitation for their party and on its victory are rewarded with positions.

        Here we find here two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt means and for the most corrupt ends – and the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians, who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality exploit and plunder it.

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      It was founded on lies and lobbying. Remember “taxation without representation”? Americans were on a 90% tax discount compared to the British. America was founded off the back of the particularly idiotic, greedy and gullible, and they’ve continued on that path to present. And some fool gave them weapons.