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In reply to the discussion: You know what, f*ck Capitalism... [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)15. You should be able to contact the IRS about a payment plan for your taxes.
I had to do that after my first business failed. I owed taxes and my income could not cover them. I called the IRS, they looked up my records and then worked out a payment schedule that didn't put me into a bind. Since you will likely have to change your withholding this year (if you have not done that) take that into account when setting up how much you can afford to pay on the IRS agreement. They don't like many people doing it and won't like you doing it year after year, but the option for them is to take you to court eventually, which presents problems for everyone. I was able to pay my back taxes and by working on the side for one of my brothers, accumulate enough money to start another business.
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How many of them rely on a vast underclass of poor laborers to sustain their economies?
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#5
Not to mention dirt cheap energy, which allowed mass production for decades on end.
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#7
Its not just history either, think of what you are talking about as the macro-scale of what...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#14
Japan doesn't rely on a vast underclass of poor laborers to sustain their economy.
betsuni
Mar 2019
#30
What you are saying is that Japan doesn't consume products produced elsewhere in the world...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#58
Here's an example: Reuters: Subaru Success Fueled By Marginalized Foreign Workers
SaintLouisBlues
Mar 2019
#38
A socialist country would assign you a job (or a bread ration if you were more unfortunate).
riverine
Mar 2019
#16
Again with the repeats, and how many impoverished people have to suffer for those economies to be...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#20
So the typical Swede - with their Free Market Capitalist economy is what we need to
riverine
Mar 2019
#22
A typical Swede owes much of their current lifestyle due to the exploitation...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#24
Ha! Humanist_Activist was forced to admit that the Nordic model of capitalism is superior to
riverine
Mar 2019
#35
Never said that, insaid their high standard of living comes at the expense of the working class....
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#42
Socialism has even less success in having produced countries with lifestyles like a typical Swede.nt
pnwmom
Mar 2019
#47
You can't give a single example of an actual country. Maybe it's because it doesn't account
pnwmom
Mar 2019
#68
You do realize that's not the only model that exists or can exist, right?
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#55
That's not the only type of socialism that exists, you really have a lot to learn...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#64
Not necessarily, in its more extreme form, the state is dissolved, a lot of people like being on...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#77
Shit, I didn't even get into the illegal shit, like some of the practices at Wal-Mart I observed...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#19
Powerful post. You've really underscored what's wrong with our system and the mentality
jcmaine72
Mar 2019
#25
Bullshit. Elements of both capitalism and socialism are necesarry, it isn't either or. As for
still_one
Mar 2019
#26
less unions, they can screw the workers. ooh, reaganism was such a DEAL i tells yah.
pansypoo53219
Mar 2019
#29
Let's not even get into it's ageism or how it treats the long-term unemployed.
HughBeaumont
Mar 2019
#37
All of our problems are really one problem. The world has a billionaire problem.
rwsanders
Mar 2019
#51
While I agree that wealth inequities are a huge problem, they are a symptom of how....
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#57
Capitalism doesn't have to operate that way. The Nordic countries practice regulated capitalism
pnwmom
Mar 2019
#69
Can they operate that way without exploiting millions of people in the 3rd world for cheap labor? nt
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#72
Yes, thanks to the advent of robotics. But you still haven't given a single example
pnwmom
Mar 2019
#73
because there is none yet, and actually, that brings up another point, if automation displaces...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#74
They would be fine in a system with regulated capitalism, like in the Nordic countries. n/t
pnwmom
Mar 2019
#76
Because their capitalistic system can already adjust to changes in the work force,
pnwmom
Mar 2019
#79
But it adjusts by finding another population or resource to exploit, but what happens when that...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#85
How would your one-world fantasy socialism work? We saw how the largest socialistic
pnwmom
Mar 2019
#86
Given the history of capitalism, that has yet to be demonstrated. N/T
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2019
#87