• TouchTheFuckingFrog
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    31 year ago

    Are there that many self employed? Most other countries seem to handle this the, imo, sensible way, where employees are auto-taxed, and the self employed file their own.

    • @wizebin
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      11 year ago

      According to bls.gov

      15 million people were self-employed in 2015, or 10.1 percent of all U.S. workers

      • TouchTheFuckingFrog
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        1 year ago

        So then why not have a system that works for the 90% of people who are employees?

        • @wizebin
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          11 year ago

          100% agreed, the complications are part of the equation but shouldn’t stop us from making a basic system that works for most people. As long as there’s a way to manually enter and categorize exceptions in the form of assets, extra income, investments, etc it would work for almost everyone.