PapaSkwat@lemmy.wtf to news@lemmings.worldEnglish · 17 days agoThe informant earned millions working for the DEA. He paid no taxesapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down12
arrow-up116arrow-down1external-linkThe informant earned millions working for the DEA. He paid no taxesapnews.comPapaSkwat@lemmy.wtf to news@lemmings.worldEnglish · 17 days agomessage-square7linkfedilink
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 days ago But also I find it weird that someone paid with tax dollars would need to turn around and pay taxes. So government employees shouldn’t have to pay income tax? Make it make sense.
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·16 days agoThey’re observing that the government gives them X wages and then takes back Y taxes, when they could just skip that step by paying them less in X wages. Not much difference between making 100k and paying 15k than just making 85k and paying 0.
So government employees shouldn’t have to pay income tax?
Make it make sense.
They’re observing that the government gives them X wages and then takes back Y taxes, when they could just skip that step by paying them less in X wages. Not much difference between making 100k and paying 15k than just making 85k and paying 0.