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About two weeks ago, I unblocked all the users that I had previously blocked because they never posted any rational thoughts, but instead posted stuff that could have been lifted, verbatim, from Stormfront. That was a mistake on my part. I grew-up in rural Eastern North Carolina. I know what's on Stormfront. I heard it every day when I was growing up. It was BS then and it's BS today. Not my day, not my perspective, nor my outlook on life have been widened or bettered by hearing the same stuff spouted here that I heard Klansmen shout in the streets when I was growing up.
 
lawtig02 said:

The agency, its mission and statutory authority | Internal Revenue Service

Review the IRS mission statement and statutory authority.
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The IRS mission​

Provide America's taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and enforce the law with integrity and fairness to all.

This mission statement describes our role and the public’s expectation about how we should perform that role.
  • In the United States, the Congress passes tax laws and requires taxpayers to comply.
  • The taxpayer’s role is to understand and meet his or her tax obligations.
  • The IRS role is to help the large majority of compliant taxpayers with the tax law, while ensuring that the minority who are unwilling to comply pay their fair share.
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Lol couldn't truthfully answer huh? Hard to defend the last administration
 
$600 is the IRS threshold for a 1099 to be issued by the payer, hence income of over $600 from Venmo (who is the record keeper on such transactions) is taxable. Other wise every business would instruct its customers to pay via Venmo so they wouldn't be taxed.

Say you pay the person who cuts your hair via Venmo.....should individual service providers be exempt from income taxes? It is a way of making sure such people report their income which is, rightfully, taxable.

The 87,000 new IRS employees weren't hired to go after Venmo recipients. They were hired to go after Trump's pals.
 
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DHS inserts staffers at FEMA in major shakeup before hurricane season​



“The Department of Homeland Security is inserting more than a half-dozen of its officials into key front office roles at the Federal Emergency Management Agency to effectively run the agency, according to multiple sources and an internal memo obtained by CNN.

The major shakeup comes less than two weeks before the official start of hurricane season. The homeland security officials will replace several longtime FEMA leaders, marking an inflection point in the Trump administration’s takeover of the disaster relief agency.

In a memo issued Wednesday, FEMA leadership formally announced the sweeping reorganization amid confusion, turmoil and a shrinking workforce at the agency under the administration, which has vowed to “eliminate” FEMA altogether.

The new officials will serve in critical advisory positions under new acting FEMA administrator David Richardson, a DHS official himself. They appear to have limited experience managing natural disasters, according to bios included in Wednesday’s announcement. Like Richardson, most of them have been serving in the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction office at DHS, and some will split their time with their other roles at Homeland Security.…”
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Taxes on gambling winnings 🤔😉

Tax Form W-2G should be given to you if you have a gambling win of:

  • $600 or more if the amount is at least 300 times the wager (the payer has the option to reduce the winnings by the wager)
  • $1,200 or more (not reduced by wager) in winnings from bingo or slot machines
  • $1,500 or more in winnings (reduced by wager) from keno
  • More than $5,000 in winnings (reduced by the wager or buy-in) from a poker tournament
  • More than $5,000 from sweepstakes, wagering pools, and lotteries
 
Hey NC MAGAs: you got fucked. They played you for chumps. You were worried about FEMA spying on you? Cool. It's gone. Stein is going to be in office four years and Trump isn't going to authorize any relief during that time, you watch.
 
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A female suspect. That is somewhat odd and irregular. Yes, women do commit and or attempt murder, but an attempt at mass murder - killing random people - is somewhat rare. Yes, there are some examples in the past, bombings, Charles Manson gang murders and so forth. But it’s usually a male perpetrator trying to kill multiple people at one time. Odd.
 


More than 100 National Security Council staffers put on administrative leave​


“The Trump administration has put more than 100 officials at the National Security Council at the White House on administrative leave on Friday as part of a restructuring under interim national security adviser and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to two US officials and another source familiar with the matter.

… An email from NSC chief of staff Brian McCormack went out around 4:20 p.m. informing those being dismissed they’d have 30 minutes to clean out their desks, according to an administration official. If they weren’t on campus, the email read, they could email an address and arrange a time to retrieve their stuff later and turn in devices.

The email subject line read: “Your return to home agency,” indicating that most of those affected were detailed to the NSC from other departments and agencies. …”
 
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