#Tax

Politicians, Taxes, and Your Vanishing Paycheck

#Tax

Politicians, Taxes, and Your Vanishing Paycheck

Ah, taxes—the magical process where the government takes your money, spends half of it figuring out how to spend the other half, and then tells you they need more. Politicians, those ever-charismatic tightrope walkers of public trust, promise tax cuts while approving pay raises for themselves. Meanwhile, the government, an all-knowing entity with the efficiency of a sloth on vacation, assures you that your hard-earned dollars are being put to good use—like funding studies on why pigeons bob their heads. And when you dare question it? Well, that’s just unpatriotic.

IRS Boss to Quit Amid Trump's Order to Share Private Tax Data of Undocumented Migrants

The acting boss of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Melanie Krause, is expected to resign after the Trump administration ordered her department to hand over private tax data of up to seven million undocumented migrants to the Department of Homeland Security. The IRS had assured these individuals that they could file their taxes without fear of deportation. Krause has indicated she will participate in a deferred resignation program and step down from her post on April 28, reportedly due to disagreement with the administration's direction for the agency.

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