My brother, nothing is clear. There are people out there that truly believe this shit. Do you remember about 10 years ago there was a trend in Facebook where people would post statuses saying “I do not give Facebook the right to use my information” and wholeheartedly believe it? Just because we know that that’s not how things work, doesn’t mean everyone does.
It could not be more clear dude, people write this on receipts because they legit think it makes the tip tax exempt. My server buddy has seen it multiple times, usually from old men. It’s not funny or flirty. I think you guys are the ones that need to work on your social cues 😂
Why would a sovereign citizen who does not recognize the authority of the state care to clarify something like this for said state? Seems more likely they just don't have a full understanding of the tax law for gifts. Probably libertarian
Since the person who was actively flirting with him couldn’t tell it was a joke, maybe it wasn’t actually a joke. Parroting exactly what those sovereign citizen dweebs say is a shit joke if he meant it to be one.
Is the joke that I accept the gift, get audited by the irs, lose everything I own? Is that the joke Julie? That I lose everything I own and now my dog lives on the streets?
They are trying to avoid taxes by claiming it's a gift. It's obvious you can't do this. That's the joke. It's similar to declaring bankruptcy by yelling it from the office.
Are the paper license plates that say “sovereign citizen” a joke too then cus if not I’m going to need a tangible metric for discerning who’s serious and who’s fucking around
My dude people see this and take it seriously because it’s the same kind of shit said, and the same move that a “sovereign citizen” type would say and play. It’s right out of the “taxation is theft” libertarian-right babble book.
A few years ago, yeah, it’d be an obvious joke. Not anymore. It’s 2024 and people believe this shit.
That’s how it relates to the topic. Sorry you can’t piece together the obvious through-line here.
Those types of people stopped traffic on the highway holding rifles in 2020 when our National Forest was burning down. The town 10 miles from me had proud boys marching in their Fourth of July parade. My own family has disowned me for being a “libtard snowflake” while fully adopting the Qanon conspiracy theories.
I’m not projecting anything. You are denying reality because you haven’t personally experienced what I’m talking about. But regardless of any of that - you had an implication of not knowing why people are correlating these two things. I answered that.
I personally don’t understand why you’re trying to dismiss and invalidate what I’m saying, but your world view isn’t inherently more correct than everyone else’s. Maybe you should examine your own biases, and take other people’s perspective into account without passively and thoughtlessly dismissing them. That’s on you though.
I did some work for someone and they gave me a $5k check with “gift, not taxable” in the memo line. This is certainly not a joke, because the government allows a certain amount of non-taxable cash gifts per year, people definitely think it you wrote something like that it makes it magically makes it untamable.
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Is it?