• GutterRat42@lemmy.world
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    A friend of mine, who is better off than I am, told me that I should always itemize. Itemizing does nothing for me. I don’t have enough deductions to offset taxes. I don’t have a mortgage, my charitable donations are like $200 a year. The tax breaks I want are no tax for war purposes and no tax for ICE purposes.

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      Yeah its kinda annoying to. Like you have to figure out an estimate for giving things to charity that your just basically trying to keep out of the waste stream. Maybe the motivation for charity should just be about the charity. I kinda think we should get rid of all deductions for non profits including religions. The actualy charities can deduct expenses anyway and if they actually make no profit then there should be no tax.

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    He grew up in NYC, and doesn’t know what a Corner Store is. Imagine this dumb fucking hump in a bodega?

    “Where’s the Diet Coke?”

    The clerk just waves in the general direction of the coolers without looking up from his phone.

    “HEY! There’s a fucking CAT back here!”

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      Well, they title is just clickbait, the article quotes Trump saying that he knows what a corner store it. Which is a weird thing to say, sure, but he certainly didn’t say he doesn’t know.

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    He literally sold his first term tax bill by touting people only having to take standard deduction under his plan. No more exhausting deductions! He eliminated a dozen or so deductions that middle class people used. SALT being the most notable.

    He would hold up a piece of paper “this is it! You only have to fill out this ONE form!”

    Now he’s making fun of them. They fell for it, and he doesn’t even remember that scam. Only remembers that they’re stupid. Because, Trump Cult, you’re stupid.

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    Trump’s own tax policies both increased the standard deduction and restricted itemized deductions. Not only that, but most average to low income Americans don’t have enough of the kind of deductible expenses that would make itemized deductions the better choice over standard.

    The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA)slightly increased the standard deduction…

    The The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) eliminated or restricted many itemized deductions for 2018 through 2025. This, together with a higher standard deduction, reduced the number of taxpayers who itemize deductions…

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    Gee, it makes yoU wonder If he wiLL ever even pretend tO give a shiT about anyone but hImself. Not rEally, but… You know.

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    Not to defend Dementia Donnie here…but as a New Yorker, he probably knows them as bodegas?

    Also fuck him, ofc poor people don’t know deductions. We can’t show 0 income while hiding our assets like his island friends.

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      As a non-american, and a non-native english speaker, I’m fully aware of what a corner store is.

      This is just further proof of Trump’s amazing ignorance and poor-grasp of the english language.

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        It’s not even a language issue, it’s just complete lack of experience with how the rest of humanity lives.

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      Not to defend Dementia Donnie here…but as a New Yorker, he probably knows them as bodegas?

      I live in Michigan where we’ll call them party stores and corner stores, and I still know what a bodega is. No point in defending him, he’s really just an idiot.

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      I’m a New Yorker-in-law, and I know what a bodega is, but I also know what a corner store is. The name describes it perfectly.

      Only a virtuosically stupid moron like Trump would have an issue with it, because his entire vocabulary is about 300 words, and half of those have to with money.