• @aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I found it astonishing that there isn’t even a 0% tax bracket anymore federally. It starts at 10% when you make your first fucking dollar. We’ve gone batshit backwards in this country to the point where we’re trying to get every last dime from poor people so we can almost afford to have buy-borrow-die oligarchs that never pay a penny in federal taxes.

    • socsa
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      117 days ago

      Technically the standard deduction is the zero tax bracket.

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        7 days ago

        Yep understood but there’s a reason they made the switch and that reason is so they can keep the shit they took out of checks of those who don’t file.

        I’m sure they did the math on it, they’re sneaky assholes through and through.