This film capitalized on a legitimate concern - the fact that the IRS audits overwhelmingly target the middle class and that tax write-offs require substantial starting capital - as an excuse to push propaganda. And, as usual with anti-tax small government rhetoric, it pushes the idea of gutting government services and programs in order to reduce taxes paid. It's a strategy that's never worked. It always gets implemented as "starve the beast", where obstructionists underfund programs to cause them to fail, in order to gain power. However, the next step is always to siphon tax money into private pockets - not to reduce taxes.
People concerned with high taxes should always keep in mind that *every* tax cut always provides *even higher* benefits to corporations and the most wealthy, while increasing national debt. What we need is not a tax cut, but to ensure that the most wealthy, who gained wealth through exploiting working-class Americans, the poor and publicly-funded resources, are made to pay an even higher tax rate than most Americans. As it stands, most of the wealthy in America pay 1% or less of their gains as taxes. The entire point of adding additional funding was to give the under-staffed IRS the resources to audit millionaires and billionaires. But they're likely to do the easiest thing and keep auditing people without armies of lawyers to defend their wealth hoarding.
Republican congressionals overwhelmingly voted against stopping corporate profiteering (such as by fuel refineries and energy congolmerates), and despite the consistent whinging about high taxes for blue-collar workers, did absolutely nothing to help anyone making less than $200K/year. Which is typical. It's a party that exists solely to exploit the poor by convincing them that they're under attack by other poor minorities. Democrats did a bit better, choosing to fund the IRS and spend tax money on citizens rather than defense contractors. But they also added in the $600 banking limit to catch people venmoing. We need to oust the Republican party entirely and split up the Democratic party, which is basically run by people who make policies that are fiscally the same as a 1980s Republican, but also try to separate Church and State like the founders intended.
Look up ranked choice voting. That's the kind of thing we need if we want minority parties to actually have a voice in Congress that can contest the current two-party system. Get your representatives to pass that. If they won't do it, they're part of the problem.
Lower and middle classes have to pay taxes and *then* pay for everything out of pocket because Republicans consistently run the narrative that *only* the federal government is corrupt - and not state, city, and county governments and law enforcement. And most especially private industry, which now runs many utility companies and private healthcare because of Republican lobbying.
As a nation, we pay the highest percentage of our income for goods and services of any first-world country for maybe a 10% increase in wages for in-demand jobs. Realistically, if we properly legislated single-payer healthcare and education spending, we'd all have "free" healthcare and education - meaning we'd pay no more more taxes than we do now to get it. But no one tries that, because wealthy donors fund trash propaganda like this film to convince them that there's no way to fix it short of civil war, and that other nations are worse off despite having less crime, better health, and a better standard of living.
It's probably a waste of time to even write this, considering the target demographic of this film and their understanding of how government actually works, but I had to do something to counteract the shills posting rave reviews of this blatantly false extremist propaganda.
Please actually look up the text of laws and the cost of things like roads, healthcare, and education, and then ask yourself why we can't get things for the same rates here in the greatest country on earth. It's not because it's impossible. It's because the people yelling the loudest about supporting regular Americans are the biggest thieves.
People concerned with high taxes should always keep in mind that *every* tax cut always provides *even higher* benefits to corporations and the most wealthy, while increasing national debt. What we need is not a tax cut, but to ensure that the most wealthy, who gained wealth through exploiting working-class Americans, the poor and publicly-funded resources, are made to pay an even higher tax rate than most Americans. As it stands, most of the wealthy in America pay 1% or less of their gains as taxes. The entire point of adding additional funding was to give the under-staffed IRS the resources to audit millionaires and billionaires. But they're likely to do the easiest thing and keep auditing people without armies of lawyers to defend their wealth hoarding.
Republican congressionals overwhelmingly voted against stopping corporate profiteering (such as by fuel refineries and energy congolmerates), and despite the consistent whinging about high taxes for blue-collar workers, did absolutely nothing to help anyone making less than $200K/year. Which is typical. It's a party that exists solely to exploit the poor by convincing them that they're under attack by other poor minorities. Democrats did a bit better, choosing to fund the IRS and spend tax money on citizens rather than defense contractors. But they also added in the $600 banking limit to catch people venmoing. We need to oust the Republican party entirely and split up the Democratic party, which is basically run by people who make policies that are fiscally the same as a 1980s Republican, but also try to separate Church and State like the founders intended.
Look up ranked choice voting. That's the kind of thing we need if we want minority parties to actually have a voice in Congress that can contest the current two-party system. Get your representatives to pass that. If they won't do it, they're part of the problem.
Lower and middle classes have to pay taxes and *then* pay for everything out of pocket because Republicans consistently run the narrative that *only* the federal government is corrupt - and not state, city, and county governments and law enforcement. And most especially private industry, which now runs many utility companies and private healthcare because of Republican lobbying.
As a nation, we pay the highest percentage of our income for goods and services of any first-world country for maybe a 10% increase in wages for in-demand jobs. Realistically, if we properly legislated single-payer healthcare and education spending, we'd all have "free" healthcare and education - meaning we'd pay no more more taxes than we do now to get it. But no one tries that, because wealthy donors fund trash propaganda like this film to convince them that there's no way to fix it short of civil war, and that other nations are worse off despite having less crime, better health, and a better standard of living.
It's probably a waste of time to even write this, considering the target demographic of this film and their understanding of how government actually works, but I had to do something to counteract the shills posting rave reviews of this blatantly false extremist propaganda.
Please actually look up the text of laws and the cost of things like roads, healthcare, and education, and then ask yourself why we can't get things for the same rates here in the greatest country on earth. It's not because it's impossible. It's because the people yelling the loudest about supporting regular Americans are the biggest thieves.
