Oddbean

The basic ways the government steals your money: - If you earn it: income TAX - If you own property: property TAX - If you spend it: sales TAX - If you save it: “inflation TAX” devaluation through inflation (not a tax per se, but reduces purchasing power) - If you invest it: capital gains TAX - If you start a business: licensing fees “TAX” - If you own a profitable business: corporate TAX - If you gift it: gift TAX - If you pass away: estate TAX - If you travel: tourist or departure TAXes - If you buy fuel: fuel TAX - If you own a vehicle: vehicle registration & road TAX - If you buy certain goods: excise TAX (on items like alcohol, tobacco, & gasoline) - If you use utilities: utility TAX - If you import or export goods: customs duties and tariffs “TAX” - If you extract natural resources: resource royalties and severance TAXes - If you own a pet: pet licensing fees “TAX” - If you engage in certain activities: sin TAXes (on items or activities deemed harmful, like tobacco or gambling) - If you buy or sell property: stamp duty or transfer TAX - If you stay in a hotel: hotel TAX - If you fly: airport TAXes and fees Am I forgetting anything 🥵 #AskNostr 🙋‍♀️❓ #OverTaxed 🪙 💰 #TaxSlave ⛓️🔊 #BostonTeaParty 🚢 🫖 #Bitcoin #BTC 🧡 https://image.nostr.build/085a1bfad825fc5417577d70ecba45ae104a052f84e8282ec7fa1d57d4645496.jpg

oooh, have I got a statist colleague to trigger this with he loves everything, taxes, inflation and tHe LeGaL sYsTeM. He would tell you to vote for lower taxes, fucking moron. sorry I got triggered instead :-E

Omg I can’t believe I didn’t pick up on that 😂🙆‍♀️🤦‍♀️ I was scraping my brain for some tax codes 😂 Yeah that’s cool! Thanks for time stamping it for me 😍 Are you a dev? If so maybe you can create and manage some option for people to switch on a #TimeStamp with each post posted 🤷‍♀️ @damus Could be cute 💜

Omg! Sorry! 😣 my bad! I think they are too busy to do that! 🙏 or maybe they can hire you to manage it so you keep your job and become part of the team :) I think it’s super cool what you are doing 💜💜🧡

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"...They tax you when you sell, they tax you when you buy, they take half when you live and they take half when you die..." - Kottonmouth Kings 'Peace Not Greed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_eLuNX0cRw

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Extortion pure and simple nostr:nevent1qqsrxp9cxsymt36m3796gsveak9fzv60rae53wqp740s7y2uhxy3c6gpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqzyz53x5nkzvpqxc2gv2ujzzarayaty7wcyuvkzwjugrjkd2kk6843wqcyqqqqqqgrtszvf

A primary reason the U.S. Constitution was created was to give the federal government the power to tax. Before that, it basically had to request funds from the States. Kind of like a GoFundMe or value4value. Everything the government does could be funded voluntarily, provided privately, more cheaply, and with greater efficiency. No taxes needed. #GovtIsTheProblem #voluntarism

If you own commercial vehicles in the US you could be paying extra road taxes based on weight, and you can be restricted to certain areas within your state. You also have to pay an emissions and apportion taxes based on the vehicle and the miles that it drives, not based on the emissions the engine actually produces. Whenever someone is ready to talk about the US EPA I think I am ready to have a chat. The EPA does not believe "It is your right to modify a vehicle you own" and has arbitrary punishments with no guidelines to follow to stay legal. It's a setup for failure. Almost everyone in the industry just puts money away to wait for the EPA mafia to come knocking, breath down your neck for a few years then you give them loads of money and they go away for a couple years if you are lucky. If you are unlucky they get access to your surveillance system, watch you for a few months, maybe mix in a little entrapment, then finally kick down the doors to your business (or home in some cases) put you and anyone in your shop in handcuffs, for more than 12 hours, scan their phones and throw a pizza party in your office. Topping it all off usually leave you only with conspiracy charges (still felony), sometimes little jail time or house arrest, but you are now a felon.

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an important one.. IMHO.. Time spent figuring out which taxes on to which amount you have to pay, tax laws everywhere in the world are particularly cumbersome, full of particular cases and forever changing. Moving goal posts all the time. That is a TAX on your time, your freedom and your peace of mind.