Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "Bob Saget Stunned By Dave Rubin's Embarrassingly Bad Ideas" video.

@rob9726 I never would have thought that my seminary education would come into play on this ;-)
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@jonathangeorge787 "When people use "literally' when they mean 'figuratively,' like it literally makes me want to bash in your stupid head." Weird Al, "Word Crimes"
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@derekmeilinger1519 That's because I don't let myself get intimidated. I had to use Turbotax this year, because my return got lost in the mail. Well, never again. They charged me $100 for things that I already knew how to do so I could claim the child tax credit. Turbotax is a scam, and the vast majority of people would be better off doing it themselves. Accountants are really only for people who have very complex tax issues. While I was the county math field day champion in school and a regional champion twice, my dad always filled his out by hand and he only has a high school degree. (He is retired now, so he doesn't have to pay anymore.) Maybe if people didn't let themselves get defeated before they start by saying it's too hard, they wouldn't be so mystified and baffled by it.
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@Bisquick Indeed. I think it was Warren who proposed having the government fill out essentially a short form with the standard deduction and basic things like the EITC and Child Tax Credit, and if you want to claim more things or itemize, then you can fill it out. I remember 12 years ago inverting numbers when claiming the EITC (I understood the process, but I wrote two numbers backward, and it affected my refund by $27), and it got fixed in a week. There's no reason other than greed that they couldn't do the same thing for everyone.
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@brockcarson You're the one defending something stupid that a stupid person said on a channel that you knew sees him as a stupid dummy and laughs at the stupid things he says, so what did you expect?
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@brockcarson I went to seminary. I took a seminar on the Gospel of John. We had to take a test where there was a passage, and we had to identify which chapter it came in (i.e., this comes from Feeding the 5000, so that's Chapter Six). I got them all right. Do I have the entire book memorized? No, I don't. Is it fair to say that I know it? You'd better believe it. If you think that tax lawyers and accountants can't do the same thing, you are mistaken.
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@brockcarson No, but knowing where to find it is sufficient. That is the point. You don't have to know every detail of charity law to know that you would look in Section 503 of the Internal Revenue Code to clarify any questions about it.
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@brockcarson "Children, knowing where to find the answer is more important than memorizing it." Dr. Perry Cox; also, pretty much every professor you will ever encounter in grad school
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@brockcarson Ask a surgeon to recite the textbook verbatim for how to remove an appendix. Could they do it? Probably not. Do they know how to take it out? Of course. How many tax attorneys or accountants do you think can recite Section 401 Paragraph k of the Internal Revenue Code verbatim? Probably not many. Can they apply it to keep you put of trouble with the IRS? Absolutely. If your argument is that someone has to memorize the entire thing in order to "know" it, then that's a pretty narrow definition of knowledge, and it's completely pointless in determining how vague the tax code is.
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@brockcarson You're the one saying that Dave Rubin is right to say that nobody knows. When people gave examples of what knowledge looks like, you specifically said that it didn't count. Maybe you need to figure out what your argument is.
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@brockcarson Seriously, Brock. Make up your mind what your argument is.
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@InternetMameluq The issue is with the loopholes, not with multiple brackets. The other problem is that unearned income (like capital gains) is taxed at a lower rate, and the flat tax crowd wants to eliminate that entirely. They also want to get rid of estate taxes.
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@derekmeilinger1519 I fill mine out in less than an hour. Very few people benefit from itemizing.
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@markfeland2285 That stems from taxing unearned income at a lower rate than earned income.
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calo10able Trump didn't make a successful reality show, Mark Burnett did. Trump was an employee. Oh, and Vox did the math. If Trump had simply put his inherited fortune into an index fund, he would have more money than he does now, even by the inflated Forbes estimate. If you don't care about who you hurt, not paying for anything could also pad your net worth.
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@s0515033 Rupert Murdoch changed his citizenship to buy 20th Century Fox. Jeff Bezos isn't going to give up the American market. If companies benefit from our infrastructure, they need to pay for it.
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Dick Gephardt did the same thing in the early 1980s.
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