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Edwin's avatar

"The fact that the Biden Administration has been using US taxpayer funds for foreign causes only adds insult to injury."

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

100%

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Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

At the same time billions and billions were stolen through the Covid con and they don’t have a clue how to manage money and they just keep printing it! Baloney Biden just keeps making sausage!

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Edwin's avatar

Well, that’s one way to put it. The US prints money, the Communist Block keeps making missiles like sausages, Chinese sausages.

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Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

What is DOD doing? Dancing around a Mulberry bush or building drones and bio weapons with the bird flu GOF to be used against US citizens?

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

They apparently have no idea how much they have given the Chicoms to make viruses deadlier.

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Edwin's avatar

Oh they know, if they want to, what they don’t want, is for us to find out. Google supported them for 15 years, how are we supposed to find out how much that was.

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

Nah, I was in the navy. They probably have no idea. The reason that have no idea is the same as you say, because they do not want us to know. The only way to make that a reality is for them to also not know.

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Edwin's avatar

Yeah, but they know it was a lot, a hell of a lot. There’s just no official records of it, nothing that could incriminate them, as far as they know.

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Edwin's avatar

A little of both?

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ABIGAIL REPORTS's avatar

It's not just the IRS, across the board, rent, food, clothing, medical care, and more.

SHEER GREED. Renters in the trailer park my eldest has lived in for 12 years have demanded new leases, if you have pets your rent goes up $137.00, and If you get rid of your pets it's only $37.00. He has had cats all 12 years, his son has a dog. Third-time owners have changed. The whole park is in horrible shape. If codes were enforced it would be shut down. People can't afford to move and they know it.

Homebuilder warns real estate market is becoming victim to its 'No. 1 killer'

https://www.newsweek.com/www-newsweek-com-housing-market-may-hit-breaking-point-economist-warns-1913688

7 Things the Middle Class Won’t Be Able To Afford in the Next 5 Years

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/7-things-middle-class-won-150007805.html

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

Fines increase with inflation. Amounts triggering reporting or taxes may not. Take FBAR. When it passed in 1970, the thread hold to report on assets held abroad, regardless of country of residence, was $10,000. The threshold remains the same but if adjusted for inflation would be about $80,945.62 according to the Google search I just did. Thus, FBAR targets far more people than it was designed to and not just the rich.

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Momcat's avatar

like the AMTI. When it was enacted, it seemed a huge amount, it would never affect me, but just ten years down the road, it hit us & we were just barely getting by! Biden is using it to squeeze blood out of turnips. Shameful!

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

They call this “Mission Creep” but in reality, all these were designed to grow into monstrosities.

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

That’s nothing! You should see what the U.S. does to its diaspora.

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Edwin's avatar

You (and those like you) are the very reason I posted this article.

Just wait till those 80,000+ new agents get ahold of your tax data. They are going to go nuts!

My brother, who is a fairly successful individual showing what one can do being a near perfect rocket scientist while employed at Vandenberg and Cape Canaveral (his office was at Patrick Air Force Base, he rose to Lt Col)) has gone absolutely insane over what his free Tricare For Life has cost him monthly. And now there is the taxman attacking his mutual funds.

“I don’t know how to politely tell them they are wrong by their own forms.”

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

Thanks.

Your brother has no idea of what lies ahead for him. Tell him to NOT rely on advice from the IRS. Somewhere I have an article on a judge telling the defendant in a tax case that taxpayers “relied on the advice of the IRS at their own peril”. But then again, paid tax professionals may not be any better. Many have claimed that the realities we expats face do not exist, cannot exist as the law is written. Yet, they do.

The tricks used to get 34 felonies against trump are not new to those who have come under the fogged gaze of the IRS.

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Edwin's avatar

Well at least he has no chance of being incarcerated, I hope. He has never done anything illegal in his life, willingly. As a matter of fact, he was subpoenaed to speak to Congress about an article he had written during his appointment to the Pentagon (he hated it). The General said honestly, he could not remember any person who had testified to Congress but was not interrupted even a single time by members of either party.

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

According to the book “Three Felonies a Day” we are all criminals. Then we have the retroactive application of news laws criminalizing our actions before they were criminal. That too is not new.

We now have the precedent of choosing an option from a pull down menu that a DA can later decide is not the best fit for a payment classification and a court to convict on 34 felonies.

Has his ID ever been stolen? If so, he cannot challenge whatever taxes, fines or fees that the ID their ran up in his name until he first pays them, the Flora rule, if I am not mistaken on its name. Then, if he sues the IRS for a refund, he’ll learn that his only recourse is to find the individual/s who ran up these charges in his name and sue them for damages.

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Momcat's avatar

and the tax code is written to be interpreted multiple ways. if you end up in court, you have to pray you get a taxpayer friendly judge, not a tax friendly judge.

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Tami’s Table for Wellness's avatar

Edwin do you sleep?

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Edwin's avatar

Oh yes, typically I am off to bed at 10:00 PM, except for the nights that I have to pick Baby up at work, at 10:20 or so. I get my sleep time just fine.

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Edwin's avatar

Almost forgot, thank you for the restack, it is much appreciated as is the reading.

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Edwin's avatar

Thanks Ahmed, restacks are great, as if reading, many thanks, I appreciate it.

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Edwin's avatar

Abigail, thanks for the restack, reading, and as always, commenting. I appreciate it. Times are hard here too, no thanks to GEICO.

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Edwin's avatar

TexBritta, thank you for the restack, and reading, sure appreciate it, more than you know.

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Edwin's avatar

bvd9701, than you for the restack, and reading, the tragedy only gets worse.

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Edwin's avatar

Thanks DTTG, for the restack and for the reading. Thank you very much.

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Ahmed’s Stack of Subs's avatar

government theft. redundant.

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