• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    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.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      16 days ago

      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.