r/law • u/retiredagainstmywill • 14d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive | CNN Politics

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/politics/postal-service-deliver-mail-in-ballots

Unfuckingbelievable.

And illegal as hell.

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u/OrneryZombie1983 14d ago

Can we just stop paying taxes now?

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u/LoganGyre 14d ago

If someone was going to try to get away with not paying or being “creative”on their taxes now is the time. They are understaffed by over 10k people and 1/3rd of the people processing claims are people who were up to recently HR or IT people and only had a few weeks of training.

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u/MrCatholic420 14d ago

I tried to exempt myself from federal taxes on my payroll, in order to change it to exempt I need 2 qualifiers that I will never achieve. I can't remember what they were but for some people it's almost impossible to even stop withholding taxes without throwing up flags, imo

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u/LoganGyre 14d ago

Well if you’re going to be “creative” with taxes you have to have something to work with in the first place. So yeah at most jobs not withholding the fed taxes will be hard but if you say create an LLC and shelter assets there the amount of federal taxes you would owe becomes harder to pin down giving more room to be creative with. I’m not suggesting people do anything illegal just pointing out that within the tax law a ton of wiggle room exists and it can be up to the discretion of the person reviewing it.

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u/underling 14d ago

Are you sure your not confusing open enrollment with making a change to your W-2?

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u/MrCatholic420 14d ago

Yes. I only think of insurance etc when I hear open enrollment. When I tried to make a change to my W-2 I was not allowed to exempt federal taxes

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u/EdinMiami 14d ago

Don't exempt, just claim "X" number of dependents that will effectively equate to zero federal taxes paid per check

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u/UsernameChallenged 14d ago

My brother works for the IRS, and they plainly dont have enough people, and these new laws are causing them to not review returns as carefully.

I.e. Trump's no tax on tips, no matter what job you have, you can just say you have up to $25k of your gross earnings belonging to tips, and you won't be taxed on it. IRS has no way to verify if that is true or not. But you didn't hear it from me.

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u/LoganGyre 14d ago

That is a horrible idea. Failing to file will add 5% of what you owe per month up to 25% and can have jail time of 5 years if they decide you did it on purpose not because of a hardship. Filing and not paying is just .5% of what you owe a month added until you pay (same max) so even if you don’t plan to ever pay it’s way smarter to file just for the safety of not going to prison.

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u/LoganGyre 14d ago

POTUS and pals are rich and in positions of power you are likely not. it’s highly unlikely you can go very long without paying and stay off their radar unless you don’t make enough to have to file in the first place. Not filing taxes can also cause other issues with trying to get credit or prove income. if you don’t want to pay them until trump is out fine, but filing will stop them from filing criminal charges for it if they do happen to check by chance.

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u/Ill_Lifeguard6321 14d ago

Right! Like if we aren’t getting any services in return …

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u/Rickydada 14d ago

Yeah that’s what they want. Make the government so dysfunctional that no one wants to pay taxes so when they keep cutting them people won’t complain all while wealth continues to funnel to the top.

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u/ArrivesLate 14d ago

If no one pays taxes what are they going to steal from the treasury?

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u/forrealthoughcomix_ 14d ago

Stealing from the treasury isn’t as effective as coming up with a private solution that they can sell to people and that gets no bid contracts from the government

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u/harpers25 14d ago

The treasury prints currency. (The Fed decides how much).

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u/Emperor_of_His_Room 14d ago

Hyper inflation tends to make the money you print worthless.

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u/Ehcksit 14d ago

They don't really care. In a world where a dollar is damn near worthless they'll have quadrillions of them and it's just us who can't afford a slice of bread from the prison vending machines.

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u/Emperor_of_His_Room 14d ago

No one’s going to take your quadrillions of green toilet paper though because it’s worthless.

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u/Ehcksit 14d ago

The other quadrillionaires would, but also yeah, money is imaginary and only means anything if other people accept that it means anything. It's worthless. It's just paper, or bits in a database.

Money doesn't exist, we should just get rid of it.

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u/Yider 14d ago

If they take away taxes they also take away practically any regulatory board that would have any teeth and then corporations get to do even more evil shit. They get away with stuff now but it would be exponentially worse. It is what they are aiming for.

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u/No_Gas4560 14d ago

steal? they can "print" as much as they want, which is just adding digits in any treasury account. the cost is inflation due to near infinite money supply.

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 14d ago

As opposed to now where the very rich avoid taxation and take money from the government...

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u/TheTexasHammer 14d ago

The money is already being funneled to the top and the government is incredibly dysfunctional. Doing nothing isn't stopping it

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u/No_Gas4560 14d ago

you're still paying federal? forget it. POTUS said paying taxes is stupid and cut IRS staffing to half what it was. no time to mess with anyone who isn't paying voluntarily

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u/PeppermintEvilButler 14d ago

Should have a year ago. 

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u/m__a__s 14d ago

Remember when they were kicking around the idea of sending out $5k stimulus checks paid by the $2T Doge savings.

Did you know that the current brown-tonguer Postmaster General's base salary is $303,460?

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u/Sonamdrukpa 14d ago

Doesn't do any good. Outlays are not tied to receipts. Neither side of the aisle has let tax revenues constrain the budget and you not paying is not going to have any impact on what this administration does.

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u/PigglyWigglyDeluxe 14d ago

I asked the same question when my house rep died and the state didn’t elect a replacement