Sorry you are struggling with the new tax laws but the judges may have a lot to do with it if you "resist" paying and wind up in front of one of those judges, especially if you wear your Bernie Bro' shirt into the courtroom.
I don't know of any punishment by color, what specifically made your taxes go up and by how much, your actual taxes not that your refund was lower.
Without knowing exactly each persons circumstance and reasons their tax liability went up your picture of their Tweets is entirely specious. And trying to blame it on their SALT? The first $10K is STILL exempt and for their taxes to go up and additional $5K at an effective rate of 20% would mean they are paying the $10K plus another $25K in SALT taxes for a total of $35K in just SALT taxes. I thought you wanted taxes to go up on the wealth and high earners?
You must have misread what I wrote -- I blame BOTH Republicans and Democrats for doing NOTHING to make the U. S. Tax Code fundamentally fair to all taxpayers. We can only achieve that by establishing what people in each of the income brackets actually must pay as a percentage of their actual incomes -- and then permanently remove all the loopholes, shelters, exclusions, exemptions, deductions, other 'write-off's', and provisions for crap like 'carried-interest' and other unfair provisions for overseas profits that somehow almost always get repatriated eventually with some kind of bullshit "tax holiday".... Putting somebody in a astronomically-high bracket commanding a sky-high tax collects absolutely NOTHING as long as the big-rich can use the tax code to actually pay little or nothing in taxes. This is why they hire armies of tax lawyers and tax accountants! This has been true for decades, under BOTH Republican and Democrat regimes. Have you really not noticed this? How long have you been earning money and paying taxes...? All I want is fairness and equality in the paying of taxes -- for ALL of us....
If you'd flip it off of CNN, you'd realize the world as it really is....all those things have been happening for well over a year.
Sloppy????? How dare you! The "deliberated" for almost an entire work week in the Senate before they rubber stamped (I mean voted) for it! About four hours of strictly ceremonial debate, no hearing, no conference committee, no town halls, nothing. Just slide it over the McConnell, keep Trump from screwing it up, and vote real quick before someone notices.
And if you'd flip on the news, you'd realize that those things have been happening for several years. The increases in those numbers since the implementation of the GOP tax cut is the same or worse as the previous yearly trends.
Then let's get current, Americans' Confidence in Their Finances Keeps Growing https://news.gallup.com/poll/246602/americans-confidence-finances-keeps-growing.aspx
What he's not saying is the federal cap on deductible property tax over $10,000 is lumped in with all those in the middle class that got increases making the benefits look worse.
Don't dodge we've already started here. SALT is about PERSONAL income taxes. Without knowing exactly each persons circumstance and reasons their tax liability went up your picture of their Tweets is entirely specious. And trying to blame it on their SALT? The first $10K is STILL exempt and for their taxes to go up and additional $5K at an effective rate of 20% marginal rate would mean they are paying the $10K plus another $25K in SALT taxes for a total of $35K in just SALT taxes. I thought you wanted taxes to go up on the wealth and high earners?
Started a thread on in the the Opinion section. Just .2% from the ALL TIME HIGH in the Gallop confidence poll. The Democrats better be shaking in their boots.
And if you look at their record, the Republicans make changes that make the tax code LESS FAIR. While you can argue against the Democrats maintaining the status quo, that is mostly due to Republican pressure, but either way it is more fair than the Republicans by a mile.
Yes they shift more of the burden onto the higher earners and eliminate millions at the bottom off the tax rolls altogether.
I am not dodging ****. Trump tried to balance a massive reduction in corporate tax liability off the backs of voters in blue states. If you want to raise tax revenues - something that should be happening in a booming and growing economy - then bring back the taxes on corporations. Because the current plan of reducing their tax liability has not resulted in any significant wage increase, job creation, asset repatriation, or capital investment.