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Taxpayers May Be Eligible for Significant Tax Refunds – If They Act by July 10

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Re: Taxpayers May Be Eligible for Significant Tax Refunds – If They Act by July 10

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The designed purpose of the IRS is to raise funds for governance. It's been captured and drained of resources by the capital class so that it's actual operational purpose is making sure that rich people pay as few taxes as possible by looking the other way when they don't obey the law. Yet another insurmountable bug in capitalism - those with the capital make the rules, and usually the new rules allow them to accumul…

A super simple fix is to encourage the rich to have more children. If they have 6 children and divide their wealth 6 ways, that rebalances wealth inequality every generation. Easy enough to do via tax policy too. Eg. 10% tax reduction per child.

This is generally the case anyway. The problem is that one lifetime is plenty of time to accumulate enormous capital and do enormous damage. In fact, I care almost exclusively about the problems that they will cause during my lifetime.

Re: Taxpayers May Be Eligible for Significant Tax Refunds – If They Act by July 10

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You mean the thing that has been the source of many cybersecurity issues for years because fonts w/ ambiguous characters and varying levels of "how closely are you actually reading the URL"? The very thing where sites like gmai1.com that look exactly like the real site phish creds? Or things that even Google has issues with subdomains? https://hoxhunt.com/blog/advanced-phishing-attack-using-goog... The IRS site does…

> You mean the thing that has been the source of many cybersecurity issues for years because fonts w/ ambiguous characters and varying levels of "how closely are you actually reading the URL"? The very thing where sites like gmai1.com that look exactly like the real site phish creds? Yes, that’s the one. If I’m really paranoid, I’ll: 1.) avoid providing data to that page 2.) cross-reference host IP 3.) find the page…

So you dont just read the address bar as claimed

Re: Taxpayers May Be Eligible for Significant Tax Refunds – If They Act by July 10

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post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You mean the thing that has been the source of many cybersecurity issues for years because fonts w/ ambiguous characters and varying levels of "how closely are you actually reading the URL"? The very thing where sites like gmai1.com that look exactly like the real site phish creds? Yes, that’s the one. If I’m really paranoid, I’ll: 1.) avoid providing data to that page 2.) cross-reference host IP 3.) find the page…

So you dont just read the address bar as claimed

I do - unless I’m really paranoid, as claimed!

Much like I often manually type, or OCR, URLs from untrusted sources.

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