@memeorandum@universeodon.comSpanberger slams Trump on 'affordability' in SOTU response -- as Virginia Democrats push new taxes (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/spanberger-slams-trump-affordability-sotu-response-virginia-democrats-push-new-taxes
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p4#a260225p4
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCourt docs: the IRS seeks $16B in back taxes and penalties from Meta, arguing it failed to report ~$54B in overseas profits; in December 2025, Meta sued the IRS (Jesse Drucker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/business/irs-meta-corporate-taxes.html
@cdarwin@c.imTrump broke the promise that he made dozens of times while campaigning:
to stop the Ukraine-Russia war in 24 hours.
Trump has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
but has yet to establish a peace deal.
As the fourth anniversary of Russia’s attack approached, delegations from both sides met in Geneva for U.S. brokered-talks in mid-February
but did not reach a resolution.
About 31% of Trump's campaign promis…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI'm so tired of people blaming each other.
Look, if it wasn't Trump, it would've been someone else. Both Ds and Rs have been aggressively building towards a police state since 9/11. The Federalist Society has rigged our courts, and SCOTUS has done exactly what they intended. Government in the '70s under Reagan started reducing taxes on the obscenely wealthy, who turned around and gutted/purchased media, who convinced people to vote for lower taxes...
We were facin…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Hobbled the I.R.S. This C.E.O. Now Has to Make It Work. (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/politics/trump-irs-taxes-bisignano.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p21#a260126p21
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialThe endgame is simple: Satisfy #Trump's racist constituents.
They literally don't care about anything else. Not healthcare, not groceries, not even taxes.
☑️ Republican governor questions goal of Trump immigration crackdown: ‘What is the endgame?’
@UP8@mastodon.social🥕 Mixing incentives and penalties found key to cutting carbon emissions long term
#carbon
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@villavelius@mastodon.online"Governments must implement taxes on the super-rich now and prioritise reducing inequality. The world cannot continue on this obscene trajectory.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/21/mi…
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaHow many times must I tell #microsoft no? I have said NO several times before and it is still NO!
After taxes are done I will upgrade this machine to #mxlinux
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDemocrats to introduce bill aimed at resurrecting IRS Direct File (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/885225/democrats-irs-direct-file-act-taxes
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p115#a260226p115
@cdarwin@c.imChicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposal to
reenact the corporate head tax has been hotly debated,
But whether corporations should pay more taxes should not be contentious.
Highly concentrated corporate wealth and economic inequality is a scourge on our city and society.
Corporations should pay their fair share to support the public good.
We’ve seen why this is necessary throughout history — over and over again.
I had the privilege of working with lat…
@kurt@nelson.funI just looked it up. The SF Westfield is somehow not in a named commercial district so the vacancy tax will not apply to it. Oops. https://www.sftreasurer.org/business/taxes-fees/commercial-vacancy-tax-cvt
@roland@devdilettante.com
@scott@carfree.cityShot/chaser
Billionaires like Lurie and his buddies prefer philanthropy to taxes because they decide how much to pay and how it's used. We should not believe for a second that it has anything to do with helping non-rich San Franciscans. #sfpol
@StephenRees@mas.toIt's time for Cascadia to impound federal taxes
https://www.cascadia-journal.com/its-time-for-cascadia-to-impound-federal-taxes/?ref=cascadia-journal-newsletter
Where Cascadia is Washington and Oregon only.…
@45names@mastodon.social
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI am wondering why people still pay their Federal taxes?
(I sent my quarterly payment to the IRS about a week ago. And I cringed at the thought of what ill uses it might be used for.)
'How “Bitcoin Jesus” Avoided Prison, Thanks to One of the “Friends of Trump”'
https://www.
@HugeGameArtGD@mastodon.gamedev.place@…
Of course no.
What I meant is that you could try to split a country/state multiple times. The risk should be lower for it to be hostile because it's easier to migrate (like a company evading taxes).
I am rather referring to how the EU is built but each state should be its own country.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOwnwell, which uses AI to let homeowners appeal property taxes, raised a $30M Series B, bringing its total funding to $54M; it also raised $20M in debt (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ownwell-raise-lower-homeowner-propert…
@brichapman@mastodon.socialNew research from UC San Diego and Princeton reveals the winning formula for climate action: carrot AND stick.
Their study shows that combining clean energy subsidies with pollution taxes drives faster adoption of green tech than either approach alone. Economic models prove this dual strategy can deliver rapid emissions cuts in the near term.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comBy All Means Raise Mitt Romney's Taxes (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/by-all-means-raise-mitt-romneys-taxes-5e936cf6
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p50#a251222p50
@UP8@mastodon.social💢 Public backing for taxes falls when unfairness exposed
#taxes
@joe@toot.worksBetween last year and this year, my property taxes apparently went down by 1.8%.
@rafa_font@mastodon.online"In Finland, tax records are considered public data, and every November, the tax authorities release a dataset to the media containing the incomes earned and taxes paid by Finland’s richest."
"At the top spot this year was Mikko ”Miki” Kuusi, founder of food delivery company Wolt and CEO of Deliveroo, whose income was €80.6 million, of which he paid €39.7 million in taxes."
STANDING OVATION
@steve@s.yelvington.comTrump is rushing to conjure up some new tariffs to make sure American consumers continue to pay his national sales taxes.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialThere's no way I'll ever want to do my taxes, mate.
#productivity #businessbro #lifehack
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org«La droite s'inquiète de l'impact de cette mesure sur le porte-monnaie des familles, des agriculteurs ou encore des entreprises.» Mais bien sûr.
https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/vaud/2025/artic…
@45names@mastodon.social
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaI owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a
toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane
@pre@boing.worldThe federal government’s revenue base is essentially a tax on human time. People work, firms pay them, the government takes a cut. Individual income and payroll taxes are the spine of receipts in normal years.
Indeed. Collapse in the labour economy causes a financial state collapse when the state is funded by a tax on labour.
Productivity is surging, but the gains are flowing to capital and compute, not labor.
Which would ideally mean you tax compute and capital but how's that work when compute and capital own the government already?
The output is still there. But it’s no longer routing through households on the way back to firms, which means it’s no longer routing through the IRS either.
@servelan@newsie.socialExcept, of course, Congress has forced them on DC...
States Say No Thanks to Trump Tax Cuts, Drawing Republican Fire - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/business/states-taxes.html?searchResultPosition=1
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialEvery time I switch jobs, the inevitable "you messed up local taxes" happens. Fudge.
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115753827172958693
How many opportunities like this exist in other states?
How many hidden "taxes" - mandated fees - that benefit the fossil fools are out there? Things we pay for without realizing it? Where…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115753827172958693
How many opportunities like this exist in other states?
How many hidden "taxes" - mandated fees - that benefit the fossil fools are out there? Things we pay for without realizing it? Where…
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialIn this world nothing can be said to be certain except death, taxes and LLM will dutifuly exfiltrate your data via a hidden prompt:
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/claude-cowork-exfiltrates-files
@jom@social.kontrollapparat.de
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeGAYINT helped me file my taxes :3
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @scott@carfree.cityInteresting: Minneapolis is actually converting downtown offices to residential, not just using it as an excuse to cut taxes while not converting any, like San Francisco.
Sounds like a bad deal for the public, though. The new units are expensive, up to $4,695 for 1415ft², and to get them the city is waiving all affordability requirements, and MN is considering subsidizing through tax credits as well.
@45names@mastodon.social
@hex@kolektiva.socialOne of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
@timbray@cosocial.caWorld Cup ticket prices.
#worldcup
@cdarwin@c.imI didn’t think she could go this far.
Anna Paulina Luna is
DEFENDING the almost TOTALLY REDACTED Epstein files.
I'm telling you, this is what the government does. Defend the Billionaire class at all costs.
It's Earle Ford, and I've spent my career as an attorney going after them when they try to cheat on their taxes.
I quit that job because I know just how vulnerable Luna is.
FL-13 deserves someone who will do something to level the playing …
@roland@devdilettante.com"yours is a gofundme waiting to happen" LOL OMG :-) so true
https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust/116106119593768664
@j_honegger@swiss.socialFrom #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
BASHKORTOSTAN WITHOUT MONEY, #TAXES PROTESTS ACROSS #RUSSIA Vlog 1251: War in
@gray17@mastodon.socialthe nytimes profile of How Epstein Got His Wings reminds me a lot of Tom Ripley, but with less murder. Ripley had a talent for math, Epstein started as a math teacher. Ripley's entry into wealthy lifestyle began with fixing some rich guy's taxes, Epstein gained access to wealthy patrons with tax-avoidance advice. they both played piano while running all types of self-interested cons on all their charmed associates. etc.
... AO3 has zero hits for Jeffery Epstein Tom Ripley, hm…
@rberger@hachyderm.ioEliminate billionaires (thru taxes, they don’t taste that good) https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/116050051809082168
@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizzaFIND A PUB
THAT NEEDS YOU
The government's signalled a potential u-turn on pub rates — but nothing's confirmed yet. Pubs still need your support. Find your local. See what they're up against. Buy a pint.
https://www.ismypubfucked.com/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIndia proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers through 2047 on services sold outside the country as long as they run workloads from Indian data centers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/01/india-offers-zero-ta…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWhat if we just stopped paying taxes? (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/minnesota-tax-strike-ice-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p16#a260123p16
@benb@osintua.euRussia’s regions post record $19.9 billion deficit in 2025 as profit taxes fall and spending surges: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/08/russias-regions-post-record-billion.html
@buercher@tooting.chMercuria, un bénéfice net de 1,3 milliard de dollars mais seulement un million de taxes. L’an dernier, le négociant genevois a payé en impôts 0,08% de son bénéfice, selon un rapport financier transmis par une source Š la presse
https://www.letemps.ch/economie/mercuria-un-benefice-net-de-1-3-milliard-de-dollars-mais-seulement-un-million-de-taxes
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sharon Jones and the Dap‐Kings:
🎵 What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes?
#SharonJonesandtheDapKings
https://open.spotify.com/track/54wELgFR64NFOdRHJXBnsd
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyTaxes are for things that we can best do together, organised via government. Given the large-scale challenges of climate change, security, and biodiversity, we'll have to do more together.
And yes, I'm aware that governments don't always spend the money wisely. Same for individuals, btw :)
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@kurtsh@mastodon.socialThe Pulitzer Board is demanding Trump's taxes, financials & medical history if he’s claiming damages in his #defamation #lawsuit.
✅ #Pulitzer Prize Board members dump broad discovery …
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI really need Hochul to figure out how tf we can pay our federal taxes to NY state, because I'm going to have serious qualms about paying federal income taxes this April.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWhereas with our tiny not-for-profit, Small Technology Foundation, we set things up so we don’t have shares/ownership and we only receive a salary and pay all our taxes. Which is how it should be and would be perfectly fine if we taxed these motherfuckers their fair share also.
PS. I know I suck at advocating for ourselves but here’s your infrequent reminder that you can help us continue to exist, should you like to see that, by becoming a patron:
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioReading articles about Mamdani that go out of their way to argue that raising taxes on rich is basically impossible is such a time.
So many logical and linguistic hoops to jump through just to reaffirm continued learned helplessness.
But what if… what if we COULD actually change some stuff?
@nelson@tech.lgbtI hear parts of America are having winter now. Come to California: our high taxes guarantee mild Decembers.
@scott@carfree.cityThis bus is supposed to run every 20 min. Instead I’m walking home in the rain because there’s a missed run and more than half-hour wait.
Daniel Lurie would rather lower Marc Benioff’s taxes than raise enough money to fix this
@newstik@social.heise.deThe electric vehicle boom in Norway is, in part, a result of high taxes. New vehicles are taxed at 25%, but new #EV at 0%. Registration fees are waved, as are (were?) city tolls, and often there is free EV parking. Plus there are income tax deductions for EV.
Businesses, on the other hand, profit from vastly cheaper electricity prices (compared to households) - or they can use the free (!) ele…
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.ioLet's fuckin' go! Ship it!
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/democrats-unveil-wa-income-tax-on-people-earning-over-1-million/
@cdarwin@c.imNothing brings tech titans together like taxes.
This week, as the specter of a California “#billionaire #tax” ballot initiative gained momentum,
the moguls grew furious.
The outrage reached a fever pitch on X,
where the following scenarios were predicted, should the initiative be approved in Nov…
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot‘A silent majority’: MPs underestimate support for green policies, study reveals | Green politics | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/05/mps-underestimate-support-green-policies-study
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.socialEven #Channel4News has fallen for the frothing right wing myth that Reeves "lied". She said taxes would need to be raised. And then did it. The only leader who hasn't fallen for it is Ed Davey. #CiaranJenkins you are usually better than this. Just stop it. It's pathetically po…
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toJust woke up from a nap after lunch. I dreamt our heroine was on the run from the galactic police for a discrepancy surrounding dubious business expense claims in her tax return and finds herself running a popular bar in a humanoid community amongst the gut flora and fauna of a giant space faring lizard fish thing amongst a school or flock of these things. I don't remember much else other than its title had to be `June Callwood Cheats On Her Taxes` for some reason.
@45names@mastodon.social @memeorandum@universeodon.comLive updates: Trump talks taxes, tariffs and immigration in State of the Union address (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/trump-state-of-union-speech-2026-live-updates-rcna258811#rcrd101779
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p143#a260224p143
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#NowPlaying #Geese
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialIndia's Supreme Court rules Tiger Global's $1.6B Flipkart stake sale to Walmart in 2018 is subject to taxes, a ruling that may shape future cross-border deals (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk @karlauerbach@sfba.socialHere's a piece about $billionaires threatening to leave California because of a proposed 5% wealth tax.
Hey guys (and as far as I can tell they are all guys): Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
They say "oh, California you will lose taxes because we are gone." Boo hoo - don't these guys know the concept of a non-performing asset, you know, a thing that produces no revenue? Well, from the point of view of Calif. these guys already pay no…
@buercher@tooting.chL’arrêt de la Cour suprême remet sèchement Š l’ordre une administration Trump qui s’affranchit de plus en plus des principes sous-tendant la démocratie. C’est un coup d’arrêt majeur Š l’extension affolante du pouvoir présidentiel menée par l’occupant de la Maison-Blanche, qui ne cache plus ses penchants autoritaires. L’un des contrepoids au pouvoir exécutif a tenu. Pour la Cour suprême, faire respecter la séparation des pouvoirs était une question de crédibilité.
https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/editoriaux/taxes-douanieres-le-cuisant-echec-de-donald-trump
@45names@mastodon.social @benb@osintua.eu2026 will not be any better for Russia: high taxes, no money, and the war continues!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/31/will-not-be-any-better.html
@45names@mastodon.social @scott@carfree.cityI'm shocked, shocked, that waiving the transfer tax on downtown office to residential conversions did not result in a single such conversion happening.
Well, not that shocked. (The real point of March 2024 Prop C was the sneaky provision letting the SFBOS reduce the transfer tax altogether without an election. Not to produce housing but to cut downtown landlords' taxes.)
@cdarwin@c.imTo ensure you get a postmark that reflects the day you mail something, you’ll have to go to a post office counter and ask for a manual postmark.
This may affect the eligibility of your mail-in ballot, or tax payment
https://www.
@45names@mastodon.social @karlauerbach@sfba.socialOur taxes are paying for the invasion of Venezuela.
Congress has abandoned the power to control expenditures.
So, how long are we going to keep paying for El Cheato to ravish our nation and other nations?
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk @cdarwin@c.imDid California lose Larry Page?
The Google and Alphabet cofounder, who left day-to-day operations in 2019,
has seen his net worth soar in the years since
—from around $50 billion at the time of his departure to somewhere approximating $260 billion today.
(Leaving his job clearly didn’t hurt his wallet.)
Last year, a proposed ballot initiative in California threatened billionaires like Page with a one-time 5 percent wealth tax
—prompting some of them to con…
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#NowPlaying #Geese
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialUK crypto buyers are required to share their account details with tax officials starting January 1 or face penalties, as the UK seeks to collect unpaid taxes (Rachel Clun/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgl2je65klo
@scott@carfree.city"The governor’s proposed 2026–27 budget includes no funding for existing affordable housing. Federal housing programs face deep uncertainty. Locally, San Francisco is staring down a structural deficit... In this context, proposals to eliminate transfer taxes and weaken development impact fees...are deliberate choices that would lock in housing scarcity for years to come."
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral (Philosopher Count)
https://philiptrammell.substack.com/p/capital-in-the-22nd-century
@cdarwin@c.imThis fall, Americans got to see what it’s like to go without a safety net for the hungry.
With the U.S. government shut down for multiple weeks
and Donald Trump refusing to fund SNAP, the federal food stamp program,
a panic set inamong the more than 40 million people who rely on it.
Families skipped meals,
and babies went unfed.
Food banks ran out of food, and some people turned to dumpster diving.
It was just a glimpse of what’s to come.
Start…
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