@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialByeBye Ryanair, go pollute someone else's air 👋
(France increased taxes on plane tickets so "in response" #Ryanair cancelled several French destinations)
Le Monde – Ryanair diminue ses activités en France après l’annonce de la hausse de la fiscalité sur les billets d’avion
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIndonesia raises taxes on crypto sellers, from 0.1% to 0.21% in domestic exchanges, and from 0.2% to 1% in overseas exchanges, but removes VAT on buyers (Stefanno Sulaiman/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@cdarwin@c.imTariffs will pay for tax cuts?
-- The White House can’t be serious.
After passing tax cuts that will likely cost $5.5 trillion over the coming decade, the Trump administration is under increasing pressure to rein in soaring budget deficits. So what’s the plan? Tariffs, tariffs and more tariffs.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recently claimed on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that tariff revenue “is going to pay off our deficit.”
Administration estimates of 10-year tari…
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgI've already done the taxes, I don't think I can procrastinate the thing I *really* should be doing any longer /o\
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialOur property tax bill arrives with a detailed list of each and every component of the total due.
Would it be nice if for our Federal taxes that we could get a detailed list that precisely shows how much each part goes, in reality, to each of the various appropriations made by Congress.
That would certainly show us how much of the FFOTUS spending consists of money stolen by FFOTUS and spent in defiance of Congressional appropriations.
@crell@phpc.socialFiling your taxes without paying extra for the privilege is apparently too "woke."
https://news.bloombergtax.com/financial-accounting/irs-chief-says-direct-file-is-gone-other-audit-tech-is-coming
@memeorandum@universeodon.comZohran Mamdani doubles down on plan to target 'whiter neighborhoods' with higher taxes -- and says billionaires shouldn't exist (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/29/us-news/zohran-mamdani-doubles-down-on-plan-to-target-richer-and-whiter-neighborhoods/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p54#a250629p54
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Mark Zuckerberg lobbied President Trump against digital service taxes, which Trump then publicly criticized; Meta confirms they met privately last week (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/zuc…
@45names@mastodon.social
@Dragofix@veganism.socialMost carbon taxes are not designed to lower carbon emissions, study finds #carbon
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social#ContemporaryContradictions #HashTagGames
Rules: include as many contradictions s you'd like. Can be profound or trivial. Each contradiction is stated via exactly 1 or 2 questions, no statements and not more than 2 questions. Try to group yours into a single post, rather than one post per contradiction, so that it's easier to see more voices when scrolling the hash tag.
Why does "race" work according to the "one drop rule" if you have Black ancestors, but according to "blood quantum" if you have Indigenous ancestors? Who benefits from this arrangement?
Why do we think of seeds as merely a reproduction mechanism for trees, instead of thinking of trees as merely a reproduction mechanism for seeds, especially since some plants can spend millennia as seeds but can survive for only part of a year after sprouting? Are metabolic activity or structural complexity really so important?
If Columbus discovered America, did Batu Khan discover Europe? What is an "Age of Discovery?"
Why don't corporations in the US try to lobby the government for a single-payer healthcare system where the government foots the bill for healthcare instead of companies paying to deeply subsidize their employees' healthcare? What benefit do they gain that's worth that cost, which in other countries is paid for via taxes?
Why is the cost of renting (which gets you zero equity) anywhere close to the cost of a mortgage (which eventually gets you ownership)? If the costs are similar but the benefits are so different, why does anyone ever rent?
Why do we obsess over the fruit/vegetable classification of tomatoes, but not corn, okra, cucumbers, zucchini, etc.?
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.pageEnabling Equitable Access to Trustworthy Financial Reasoning
William Jurayj, Nils Holzenberger, Benjamin Van Durme
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21051 https://
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialDUH - for senior citizens NOT paying attention. 🤬
✅ Taxes on Social Security benefits were not eliminated despite what you've heard - USA Today
https://www.
@kctipton@mas.to
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itBetween the "supply" charges, "delivery" charges, sales taxes, and system benefit charge, I calculate that my electricity (from Con Ed, in NYC) costs about 33.5 cents per kWh (plus roughly $30/mo basic service fee & tax surcharges).
Which is.. a lot. I calculate that my two (classic) CR boxes at 50W each cost about $25/mo to run 24/7, so switching to more efficient fans (PC fans or efficient hepa filter units) would pay for themselves reasonably quickly.
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialWell, this is an encouraging resolution, and I, for one, will be urging my Supervisor to support it - If you're in SF, I urge you to do the same.
"Resolution urging state legislators to champion legislation allowing cities and counties to decide if they want to implement local wealth and progressive income taxes."
And thanks to the Sponsors: #ChyanneChen,
@paulwermer@sfba.socialWell, this is an encouraging resolution, and I, for one, will be urging my Supervisor to support it - If you're in SF, I urge you to do the same.
"Resolution urging state legislators to champion legislation allowing cities and counties to decide if they want to implement local wealth and progressive income taxes."
And thanks to the Sponsors: #ChyanneChen,
@servelan@newsie.social‘This is about more than burgers and fries’: Boycott of McDonald’s to begin this week | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mcdonalds-boycott-2025-dei-taxes-price-gouging-when-b2775624.html
@steve@s.yelvington.comI keep seeing posts from people who ought to know better advocating that the blue states refuse to send tax money off to Washington. THAT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS. Taxes are sent from employers to the federal government. States are not involved.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialElon Musk calls the Senate tax bill "utterly insane" as it raises taxes on nuclear and geothermal energy and battery storage, which are crucial for AI training (Noah Smith/Noahpinion)
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/would-you-rather-have-cheap-energy
@memeorandum@universeodon.comBillionaires pay a lower tax rate than the rest of America's taxpayers, new study finds (Aimee Picchi/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/income-taxes-billionaire-tax-rate-irs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p58#a250827p58
@lilmikesf@c.imTrade the Cracker Barrel for #Caribbean...Buy a $200k home on one of these 5 isles, and you get free dual #citizenship allowing you #visa-free access to up to 150 other countries ...
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… @… They should go to Mars. No taxes there!
@cdarwin@c.imZohran Mamdani wants to make New York more affordable
by raising taxes on the city’s millionaires.
History shows they won’t leave
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/zohran-mamdani-tax-rich-new-y…
@fgraver@hcommons.socialThere is only one appropriate response to these threats from Trump: fuck off. (Or, some more diplomatically worded version of the same.)
Unfortunately, I doubt European leaders have to backbone to defend EU / EEA sovereignty. https://mastodon.social/@LukaszOlejnik/115093…
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.socialRappel: près des trois quarts des millionnaires interrogés dans les pays du G20 sont favorables Š une augmentation des impôts sur la fortune, et plus de la moitié d'entre eux pensent que l'extrême richesse est une « menace pour la démocratie ».
#TaxTheRich #démocratie
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.pageTaxCalcBench: Evaluating Frontier Models on the Tax Calculation Task
Michael R. Bock, Kara Molisee, Zachary Ozer, Sumit Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16126
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThe platform of 33 year-old Zohran Mamdani, the “Democatic Socialist" immigrant who just won the primary in New York City (setting himself up for Mayor's election in November)
free public buses 🚎
universal childcare 👶
freezing rent in subsidized units 🏚️
city-run grocery stores 🥖🥒🍎
all paid for by new taxes on the rich.🤑
Good people want these things. They are not complicated or extreme.
also:
"strong support of Palestinians and criticism of Israel”
#Socialist #CanPoli
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg6yg7x467o
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgPrix fixe*†
* Les conditions générales s’appliquent. Hors taxes et frais.
† Des achats in-app peuvent être nécessaires pour débloquer des fonctionnalités supplémentaires.
https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2025/articl…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgPrix fixe*†
* Les conditions générales s’appliquent. Hors taxes et frais.
† Des achats in-app peuvent être nécessaires pour débloquer des fonctionnalités supplémentaires.
https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2025/articl…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgPrix fixe*†
* Les conditions générales s’appliquent. Hors taxes et frais.
† Des achats in-app peuvent être nécessaires pour débloquer des fonctionnalités supplémentaires.
https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2025/articl…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsAttention, I've found a positive.
Thanks to the orange moron, I'll be paying less in income tax.
Oh, wait, it's the conservatives who love smaller taxes.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialITV reports H1 2025 adjusted EBITA down 31% YoY to £146M, ITV Studios revenue up 11% YoY to £632M, ITVX digital ad revenue up 12% YoY and MAUs reaching 16.4M (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/itv-half-yearly-profits-drop-1236468600/
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgAnother essential thread from @… ...
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114733317506784669
pluralistic@mamot.fr - A major problem with letting billionaires decide how your country is run is that they will back whichever psycho promises the lowest taxes and least regulation, no matter how completely batshit and unfit that person is:
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/nations-are-people
--
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/23/billionaires-eh/#galen-weston-is-a-rat
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@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.pageExploring the Use of Predictive Analytics by Austrian Tax Authorities: A Qualitative Study within the Task-Technology Fit Model
Simon Staudinger, Christoph G. Schuetz, Marina Luketina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15379
@grumpybozo@toad.socialWe need to reclaim the tradition of imposing taxes on the rich to cover the costs of war. It’s why we got the income tax in the first place.
War is a mechanism that concentrates wealth at the top. If that is not countered with policy, it suggests that part of the purpose of the war is that concentration.
(see the past 25 years as an example)
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineBest way to destroy US tech leadership is to put import taxes (tariffs) on everything they sell overnight.
https://apnews.com/article/apple-trump-computer-tariff-c01b5ce0265b0d294dd10b8966be4436#
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @servelan@newsie.socialIRS considers eliminating ability to file your taxes in language other than English | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/irs-english-tax-filing-trump-b2795612.html
@dsc@mastodon.scotClassic #america
"The price of our goods doesn't include the basic cost of employing our staff, let alone local sales tax and tips"
Why not just charge me for the bun and I'll guess the rest.
#ffsamerica
@benb@osintua.euFerrexpo's Ukrainian mining subsidiary executive charged with $41 million tax evasion scheme: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/ferrexpos-ukrainian-mining-subsidiary-executive.html
@rachel@norfolk.socialUK Gov to review taxes on gambling.
I know what to do - charge a completely random amount between 0 and 100% on winnings. Ask yourself, are you feeling lucky??
#ukpolitics #gambling
@annsev@troet.cafe"The Matrix is everywhere, it's all
around us, here even in this room.
You can see it out your window or
on your television. You feel it
when you go to work, or go to
church or pay your taxes. It is
the world that has been pulled
over your eyes to blind you from
the truth."
— MORPHEUS
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineDemocratic governments* should ALL be against AI - if not for the obvious moral issues, for the fact that
LLMs *pay no taxes*.
When you fire somebody making €60k/year in Germany and replace it with an LLM subscription, you're effectively removing 25K or so from state coffers (because, c'mon, you don't believe OpenAI et al are going to pay taxes, are you?).
* not kleptocracies, of course
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.socialTrump's ending of de minimis exemptions (which would apply 35% taxes to shipments from Canada less than $800)
Means I might have to stop shipping #Accordion swag to customers in the US after August 1
Or at least it will get much more expensive/burdensome/complicated
So if you want any
@buercher@tooting.chLe prix des F-35 pourrait encore augmenter de 15% en taxes, c’est encore un milliard en plus.
https://www.letemps.ch/economie/finance/apres-les-tarifs-douaniers-donald-trump-songe-maintenant-a-taxer-les-exportations-americaines
@lilmikesf@c.im @45names@mastodon.social @memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump strikes Iran hard, and the world waits for what comes next (Dan Balz/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/22/trump-iran-deportations-tariffs-spending-taxes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p12#a250622p12
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngGovernments freeloading on FOSS, not helping with funding (and at the same time collecting taxes on income/donations sourced otherwise) are just as exploitative as privately held companies, maybe even worse...
https://scalie.zone/@aks/115012388922867133
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk @mxp@mastodon.acm.orgOui , la situation n’est pas nouvelle, mais la classe politique suisse ne se souvient pas comment ça s’est terminé la dernière fois.
https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2025/article/la-suisse-face-aux-pressions-america…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgOne thing that the current exorbitant investments in "AI" show is that the investor class and big tech corporations do not pay enough taxes: If you have billions to set on fire for spicy autocomplete we should take some or all of those to do something useful with.
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzWow, just listening to Luxon waffle on about how all the problems his gov't is facing about a failing economy were caused by the past Gov't. He throws huge shade at Clöe Swarbrick and her financial chops, implying his party is far better, and claiming the Greens would hugely increase debt and taxes... None of the fricking jounos there have had the nous to call him on that - this dickhead Gov't has increased our national debt, not reduced it in the slightest..
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialHow Can the Government ‘Take Back’ a City It Largely Controls?
DC collects taxes and funds its own *balanced* budgets.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/upshot/washington-dc-home-rule.html?unlocked_a…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe government wants AI to fight wars and review your taxes (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/14/trump-ai-government-war-taxes-jobs/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUyNTUyMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUzOTM0Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTI1NTIwMDAsImp0aSI6ImQzYzQzZDM3LTQ0ZDAtNGFmMi1iZWQ2LTk4NjRhMDgzYzA5MCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy8yMDI1LzA3LzE0L3RydW1wLWFpLWdvdmVybm1lbnQtd2FyLXRheGVzLWpvYnMvIn0.kvtXgmZI91Jffp-WZeTWZqUjlzhTWeFUcLPYhZPSGm4&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p127#a250715p127
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialSubtooting since people in the original thread wanted it to be over, but selfishly tagging @… and @… whose opinions I value...
I think that saying "we are not a supply chain" is exactly what open-source maintainers should be doing right now in response to "open source supply chain security" threads.
I can't claim to be an expert and don't maintain any important FOSS stuff, but I do release almost all of my code under open licenses, and I do use many open source libraries, and I have felt the pain of needing to replace an unmaintained library.
There's a certain small-to-mid-scale class of program, including many open-source libraries, which can be built/maintained by a single person, and which to my mind best operate on a "snake growth" model: incremental changes/fixes, punctuated by periodic "skin-shedding" phases where make rewrites or version updates happen. These projects aren't immortal either: as the whole tech landscape around them changes, they become unnecessary and/or people lose interest, so they go unmaintained and eventually break. Each time one of their dependencies breaks (or has a skin-shedding moment) there's a higher probability that they break or shed too, as maintenance needs shoot up at these junctures. Unless you're a company trying to make money from a single long-lived app, it's actually okay that software churns like this, and if you're a company trying to make money, your priorities absolutely should not factor into any decisions people making FOSS software make: we're trying (and to a huge extent succeeding) to make a better world (and/or just have fun with our own hobbies share that fun with others) that leaves behind the corrosive & planet-destroying plague which is capitalism, and you're trying to personally enrich yourself by embracing that plague. The fact that capitalism is *evil* is not an incidental thing in this discussion.
To make an imperfect analogy, imagine that the peasants of some domain have set up a really-free-market, where they provide each other with free stuff to help each other survive, sometimes doing some barter perhaps but mostly just everyone bringing their surplus. Now imagine the lord of the domain, who is the source of these peasants' immiseration, goes to this market secretly & takes some berries, which he uses as one ingredient in delicious tarts that he then sells for profit. But then the berry-bringer stops showing up to the free market, or starts bringing a different kind of fruit, or even ends up bringing rotten berries by accident. And the lord complains "I have a supply chain problem!" Like, fuck off dude! Your problem is that you *didn't* want to build a supply chain and instead thought you would build your profit-focused business in other people's free stuff. If you were paying the berry-picker, you'd have a supply chain problem, but you weren't, so you really have an "I want more free stuff" problem when you can't be arsed to give away your own stuff for free.
There can be all sorts of problems in the really-free-market, like maybe not enough people bring socks, so the peasants who can't afford socks are going barefoot, and having foot problems, and the peasants put their heads together and see if they can convince someone to start bringing socks, and maybe they can't and things are a bit sad, but the really-free-market was never supposed to solve everyone's problems 100% when they're all still being squeezed dry by their taxes: until they are able to get free of the lord & start building a lovely anarchist society, the really-free-market is a best-effort kind of deal that aims to make things better, and sometimes will fall short. When it becomes the main way goods in society are distributed, and when the people who contribute aren't constantly drained by the feudal yoke, at that point the availability of particular goods is a real problem that needs to be solved, but at that point, it's also much easier to solve. And at *no* point does someone coming into the market to take stuff only to turn around and sell it deserve anything from the market or those contributing to it. They are not a supply chain. They're trying to help each other out, but even then they're doing so freely and without obligation. They might discuss amongst themselves how to better coordinate their mutual aid, but they're not going to end up forcing anyone to bring anything or even expecting that a certain person contribute a certain amount, since the whole point is that the thing is voluntary & free, and they've all got changing life circumstances that affect their contributions. Celebrate whatever shows up at the market, express your desire for things that would be useful, but don't impose a burden on anyone else to bring a specific thing, because otherwise it's fair for them to oppose such a burden on you, and now you two are doing your own barter thing that's outside the parameters of the really-free-market.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the Trump admin is pressuring South Korea, Brazil, the EU, and others to drop plans for new taxes on US tech firms as a part of broader trade talks (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-trade-talks-tech-industry-e1061e53
@cdarwin@c.imThe average effective U.S. tariff rate soared to 18.6 percent in early August, the highest level in more than 90 years, from 2.5 percent when Trump took office in January
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/busines
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialIs it time to stop paying Federal taxes yet?
I mean, we are paying, and we are not getting what we are paying for. And our legitimate representatives who are empowered to decide how to spend Federal $$ are being ignored.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump and GOP's tax bill would sell off USPS's brand-new EVs (Jacob Bogage/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/21/trump-usps-trucks-taxes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p34#a250621p34
@memeorandum@universeodon.comElon Musk's SpaceX Most Likely Doesn't Pay Taxes (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/technology/spacex-musk-government-contracts-taxes.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eU8.9WcD.59w0dEg3_0tz&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250815/p13#a250815p13
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @kurtsh@mastodon.socialThe Republican megabill now before the Senate cuts taxes for high earners & reduces benefits for the poor.
☑️ NYTimes: Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/12/ups…
@servelan@newsie.social'Time to cut that off': Newsom suggests withholding federal taxes from Trump admin - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/newsom-federal-taxes-trump/
@45names@mastodon.social @cdarwin@c.imTrump celebrated the start of his long-awaited tariffs Thursday,
— though economists say the cost of the import taxes will probably get passed on to U.S. consumers and businesses.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the federal government could collect $50 billion a month in tariff revenue,
which Trump administration officials hope will be a boon to the U.S.'s dismal financial health.
U.S. stocks finished mixed Thursday, as investors appeared unbothered by the …
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialFFOTUS' new big awful ugly bill has a rarely noticed provision to effectively eliminate taxes on startup founder's income. It is a gift of prodigious size to the mega-$billionaires who kow tow to FFOTUS.
I am wondering if one could structure a consulting (or other) business as a startup in which you are are the sole holder of voting stock and also the sole holder of a pool of non-voting stock (yup, that's not only allowed, it is rather common practice.)
Then as you d…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk @memeorandum@universeodon.comHospitals stunned by Senate GOP's Medicaid plan (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/17/hospitals-senate-medicaid-megabill-taxes-00410769
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p183#a250617p183
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @45names@mastodon.social @kurtsh@mastodon.socialThe Republican megabill now before the Senate cuts taxes for high earners & reduces benefits for the poor.
☑️ NYTimes: Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/12/ups…
@servelan@newsie.social**This is unconstitutional; the law itself has no such cap.** HUD did this same b.s. 'enforcing' the Brooke Amendment, which prevented increases in rent due to increases in taxes and utilities; HUD put an arbitrary cap on how many increases, and the court said (*Howard v. Pierce*) 're-write the regulation to conform to enabling legislation'
'So disrespectful': This Trump proposal could throw 1.4 million people out of their homes - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/hiousing-trump-homeless/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Jul.17.2025_8.32pm
@cdarwin@c.imAn email sent by the US Social Security Administration (SSA) that claims Donald Trump’s major new spending bill has eliminated taxes on benefits for most recipients is misleading, critics have said.
Jeff Nesbit, who served as a top SSA official under Republican and Democratic presidents, posted on X: “The agency has never issued such a blatant political statement. The fact that Trump and his minion running SSA has done this is unconscionable.”
The reconciliation bill – which the p…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSenate picks fight with House GOP on the "big, beautiful bill" (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/17/senate-trump-budget-bill-medicaid-taxes-salt
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p2#a250617p2
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHere's what's in the Senate GOP's version of Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5353963-senate-medicaid-taxes-green-energy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p166#a250616p166
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialWe see cops going crazy.
There will be lawsuits.
Cops and the places that hire them will incur legal costs and even higher payouts for damages.
This is likely to force cities to raise taxes to cover those costs or, more likely, to cover the massive increase in insurance premiums that cities will have to pay in the future.
Of course, ultimately it will be you and me - taxpayers - who foot these bills for the insane excesses of cops.
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialTaxes on Social Security are hardly affected by Trump's bill.
But the increase in the "State & Local Tax" deduction (SALT) from $10k to $40k?
That's a big deal for Californians.
✅ How the New Tax Law Will Actually Affect Your Tax Bill - Retirement Nerds
https://youtub…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe European Commission drops plans to impose a digital tax on tech giants in its upcoming 2028-2034 budget proposal, amid ongoing EU-US trade negotiations (Gregorio Sorgi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/victory-eu-donald-trump-meta-tax-digital/…
@servelan@newsie.socialSpaceX privately brags it may never pay federal taxes - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-2673888515/
@cdarwin@c.imThe Johnson Amendment is not exactly a difficult law to parse.
To keep their sweet tax-exempt status, religious groups can’t endorse political candidates.
But evangelicals want to have their cake and eat it too. -- They don’t want to pay taxes, but they do want ministers to be able to climb into the pulpit and tell their flock who to vote for.
The "Alliance Defending Freedom", the hard-right law firm with a truly staggering track record of getting the United St…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk @memeorandum@universeodon.comNewsom floats withholding federal taxes as Trump threatens California (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/06/newsom-floats-withholding-federal-taxes-00393386
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p147#a250606p147
@45names@mastodon.social @karlauerbach@sfba.socialThose of us who have to pay US Federal taxes on a quarterly basis may find it rather disgusting that the June 16 payment is due two days after FFOTUS self-indulgent, expensive, North Korea style, imperial parade.
@cdarwin@c.imI think it's really underappreciated that solar panels are now about as cheap per unit area as mass-produced building materials like wood, siding, shingles/shakes, etc.
The Republican reconciliation bill aims to make solar expensive again in the US through tariffs and taxes.
https://bsky…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialGlad some MAGA folks are finally waking up to #Trump's lies & deception...
...but now that y'all have taken the red pill, just imagine how much he's LIED to date.
Ex: DYK his dumb bill still fully taxes #SocialSecurity & horrifically slashes
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump signs megabill that slashes taxes, Medicaid while boosting national debt (Zac Anderson/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/04/donald-trump-signs-megabill-taxes-medicaid-border/84470497007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p61#a250704p61
@cdarwin@c.imMillions of low-income Americans could experience
🆘 staggering financial losses
under the domestic policy package that Republicans advanced through the Senate on Tuesday,
💥which reserves its greatest benefits for the rich while threatening to strip health insurance, food stamps and other aid from the poor.
For many of these families, the loss of critical federal support is likely to negate any improvements they might have seen as a result of slightly lower taxes, expe…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Exaggerates His Agenda Bill's Impact on Social Security Taxes (Karoun Demirjian/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/politics/trump-bill-social-security-taxes.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p95#a250701p95
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Says He's Making America More Competitive. Is He? (Jess Bidgood/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/politics/trump-tariffs-taxes-economy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p147#a250709p147
@cdarwin@c.imConservatives are asking Trump for another big tax cut
Currently, an investor who bought stock for $1,000 in 1980 and sold it for $10,000 today would owe capital gains taxes on the increase in value of $9,000.
But under the proposal pitched by Grover Norquist and others, the calculation would start by adjusting up the value of the original purchase to account for inflation
— which would reduce the amount of gain that’s taxable after selling the stock.
Although a 199…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comBessent demands apology from Summers over 'big, beautiful bill' criticism (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5387729-bessent-summers-debate-trump-taxes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p67#a250707p67
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s tax law includes a $40,000 SALT cap. Here’s who qualifies.
The new GOP tax law quadruples how much people can deduct in state and local taxes off their federal returns, offering significant relief to high earners in many Democratic-led states by partially undoing a big change in President Donald Trump’s 2017 law.
That 2017 law, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, limited the deduction to $10,000 a year, imposing a cap for the first time as a way of reducing the bill’s overall cos…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThomas Massie on why fellow Republicans keep folding: 'They're just afraid of Trump' (Sahil Kapur/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-big-beautiful-bill-house-taxes-immigration-live-updates-rcna215840/rcrd84197?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p120#a250702p120
