The proposed DOGE rebate is based on currently paid tax savings. If you didn't pay Income Tax during the period they are saving the money in, you won't get a check. This is NOT a stimulus check. Lets hope the plan includes a way to get as much money as possible back from all the decades of theft.
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Thank God... I was pissed with the original "Everyone gets $5,000!" idea. No fucking way. As a biz owner, the Fed has legitimately vacuumed up nearly 50% of all of my company's income for 15 years.
If this is a rebate based on the amount of taxes paid in to the system? I could almost retire.
It's really, really, really fucking bad as a biz owner. They structure the tax laws to basically ignore employee compensation, and structure the income tax as-if I have zero expenses or salary.
To even begin to make me square after this theft would need to be closer to $1mm in what I would consider to be egregious over-taxation. Taxes are the sole reason that I haven't been able to grow the business as quickly as I should. It's the equivalent of an employee being robbed at gunpoint every day they go to work.
It's fucking disgusting. To even consider that I'd be getting a $5,000 check... while my neighbor, who is a fucking clown silver spoon loser who doesn't do shit, would also get $5,000... is a violent slap to the face.
This needs to be either KEPT by DOGE and used to fund important programs, used to eliminate taxes altogether, or, if for some reason they are hellbent on paying people back - it NEEDS to be based on how much tax was stolen from you, not just a flat blanket refund.
Taxes are so insanely unfair and financially damaging, I've actually considered going out of my way to hire a shady "grey" accountant to exploit loopholes and take my chances. Fuck the IRS. Fuck the Fed. Fuck the Banks. Fuck the Hedge Funds. All financial terrorists actively working against the USA.
Don't take this negatively: have you tried caring less about money?
Yeah, and then reality kicks in... you have to realize, some of us are kind of "stuck" in situations where we live in very high cost of living areas. Which I do. Due to family obligations, jobs, location/roots, etc.
Would I like to unplug? Sell my house? Buy a lake front cabin? And go 90% off-grid? Yes! Absolutely.
Would my wife/kids/family like this? No. Not so much.
Also note, that while I witnessed the generation before me overwhelmingly get a pretty sweet deal with very little to worry about - I still grew up in a really shitty area and a pretty terrible economic/social situation. Took a ton of hard work and some insanely risky bets/decisions to get where I am today.
I could move 45 minutes south and be in an area where the real estate/cost of living is 40-50% less of where I'm at; but the circumstances do not allow for that right now.
At the end of the day you simply need to look at a time chart plotting cost of living vs. average earnings, not even focused on geography, to see that our current situation is absolutely horrible when compared to prior generations, until you literally go back to the Depression. The gap between costs/spending power vs. wages earned has never been wider. And it's why an entire generation has spent 5 - 10 years working, only to live with their parents with little to no savings.
Not saying it's impossible; but it's very difficult unless they are extremely frugal and committed to saving as much as possible for many years. Which is only possible if they live with their parents and costs are covered while they save.
Meanwhile, my parents were able to buy their first home from my dad working 2 hourly jobs and my mom staying home w/ the kids.
Could you imagine a situation today in which the father could work @ Applebee's during the day and then nightshift at CostCo... and the mother stayed home... and they could buy a single family house? With today's economy this scenario would barely afford them enough money to pay rent and eat healthy, in a shitty apartment.
It's not the same.
I understand where you are coming from. However:
Here's a tidbit from St. John of Kronstadt
I hope you'll find joy where you didn't before.