Evan Hafer
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Okay, let's imagine you're paying 40% in income taxes. Then if you live in California, you pay another 14.4, I think it is, something like that. And then I think it's another 1% if you live in the city of Los Angeles. So now you're down to 30, what, 34%? What do you get there? Somewhere in the high 30s. So then you have sales tax on everything you buy. You have property tax. You have insurance.
You have whatever your house costs. You don't have a lot of money left over. And the government doesn't even have to tell you what they're spending it on. Like you probably get less than they do if you really think about it. If they get 40% โ let's just say you don't have tax shelters and all that good stuff.
You have whatever your house costs. You don't have a lot of money left over. And the government doesn't even have to tell you what they're spending it on. Like you probably get less than they do if you really think about it. If they get 40% โ let's just say you don't have tax shelters and all that good stuff.
You have whatever your house costs. You don't have a lot of money left over. And the government doesn't even have to tell you what they're spending it on. Like you probably get less than they do if you really think about it. If they get 40% โ let's just say you don't have tax shelters and all that good stuff.
But if you pay 40% in income taxes and then after all the shit, like after all property tax and state tax and this tax and sales tax, how much did you get? What did you get? How much money did you actually get? I bet the government got more than you got, bitch.
But if you pay 40% in income taxes and then after all the shit, like after all property tax and state tax and this tax and sales tax, how much did you get? What did you get? How much money did you actually get? I bet the government got more than you got, bitch.
But if you pay 40% in income taxes and then after all the shit, like after all property tax and state tax and this tax and sales tax, how much did you get? What did you get? How much money did you actually get? I bet the government got more than you got, bitch.
That is so bananas that you don't even get an itemized list of what they spend it on.
That is so bananas that you don't even get an itemized list of what they spend it on.
That is so bananas that you don't even get an itemized list of what they spend it on.
The Pentagon. Yeah, the Pentagon. How many times?
The Pentagon. Yeah, the Pentagon. How many times?
The Pentagon. Yeah, the Pentagon. How many times?
Come on, never? Never. Never. Never. Pentagon's accounting records are so convoluted that billions of dollars cannot be accounted for, charges a new government report. Oh my God. Oh my God. That is so crazy. Never?
Come on, never? Never. Never. Never. Pentagon's accounting records are so convoluted that billions of dollars cannot be accounted for, charges a new government report. Oh my God. Oh my God. That is so crazy. Never?
Come on, never? Never. Never. Never. Pentagon's accounting records are so convoluted that billions of dollars cannot be accounted for, charges a new government report. Oh my God. Oh my God. That is so crazy. Never?
You haven't survived an audit. That is so funny. That's so funny. Despite having trillions of dollars in assets and receiving hundreds of billions in federal dollars annually, the department has never detailed its assets and liabilities in a given year.
You haven't survived an audit. That is so funny. That's so funny. Despite having trillions of dollars in assets and receiving hundreds of billions in federal dollars annually, the department has never detailed its assets and liabilities in a given year.
You haven't survived an audit. That is so funny. That's so funny. Despite having trillions of dollars in assets and receiving hundreds of billions in federal dollars annually, the department has never detailed its assets and liabilities in a given year.
For the past three financial years, the Defense Department's audit has resulted in a disclaimer of opinion, meaning the auditor didn't get enough accounting records to form an assessment. Like, sorry, we don't have any paperwork.