Yes, I thought back through them and I can totally remember and visualize them. But I’ve forgotten a lot of the address numbers.

This is dementia

Don’t catch him slippin’ up

Look what he’s whippin’ up

This is dementia

Look at how we’re livin’ now

Police/ICE be trippin’ now

They just want the money

Thanks, it’s good to know that it wouldn’t fall on the employee. I looked it up[1] and you’re right – if your employer withheld the money and you can prove it (either via the W2, or by producing your paycheck stubs showing the amounts withheld if there’s no W2), then the Feds will go after the employer, not the employee.

I also learned that if your employer didn’t pay the feds and/or give you or the Feds a W2, then it falls on you to prove they withheld money by showing the IRS your paycheck stubs (or by managing to get that info from the employer), otherwise you will still have to pay the taxes. So the lesson there is to save your paycheck stubs (or electronic copies thereof), especially the last one of the year showing the totals, just in case!

So, back on the topic of States trying to keep that money from going to the Feds, my previous argument would still apply, except that the employers would be held liable by the Feds instead of the individual employees, under current laws (AFAIK!). So if the State passed a law saying the companies have to give that money to them instead of the IRS, the companies would be in a catch-22 situation of Fed law saying Feds get it and State law saying the State gets it. So again, Fed law would supersede the State law and companies would have to give the money to the Feds.

Do you know a way the States could get around that issue? It would be great if they could but I don’t see how.

[1] https://www.taxaudit.com/tax-audit-blog/2025/what-happens-if-my-employer-doesn-t-pay-my-payroll-taxes

See my answer to glitch1985. I meant to put it here but accidentally clicked reply on their post instead.

The federal government will hold the taxpayer responsible for not paying their federal taxes. The employers withholding federal taxes from paychecks and not forwarding that on to the IRS would be committing a federal crime, but the IRS would still demand their tax payment from each taxpayer, just like how it happens if the employer didn’t withhold enough–the taxpayer has to send in a check.

That’s just how the system and law works. Federal law supersedes State law. You pay federal taxes to the federal government under federal tax laws, and the State has no power to say you don’t owe them.

It’s a great idea, but the problem is people file their federal taxes as individuals and pay the IRS directly, so how are the blue states supposed to withhold the money?

Yeah, I almost typed “(rhetorical question)” there but I figured it was obvious.

Shah Alam had been in the Erie county holding center for the past year, after being arrested by Buffalo police in 2025 on charges of assault, trespassing and possession of a weapon. The arrest stemmed from an incident in which Shah Alam got lost while on a walk and ended up on the porch of a woman’s home. He had been using a curtain rod as a walking stick, according to his attorney. The woman called the police, and when Shah Alam did not follow police commands to drop his curtain rod, they tasered and beat him, his attorney said. He was released on bail, and then transferred to border patrol custody. Border patrol agents then dropped him off at a Tim Hortons about five miles from his home. Neither his attorney nor his family were notified of his release.

Holy shit! Will there be any kind of accountability for this at all?!

charges of assault, trespassing and possession of a weapon.

Sounds bad? Translation: Assault = cops beat him for being disabled/unable to follow instructions; Trespassing = Finding his way to someone’s porch after getting lost and needing help; Possession of a “weapon” = holding a curtain rod he was using as a navigation cane.

As long as his mother doesn’t turn him in he’s safe.

Wish Mastodon had like a default “what’s hot” or “Discover” feed. Really helps find people to follow as well.

You mean like Mastodon’s “Trending” and “Discover” feeds?

Those must be pit vipers.

Um … boomers and gen-x finished raising their kids a long time ago. Even their kids are done or close to done raising their own kids.

No, it isn’t. No more than concentrating on anything else is. It’s kind of sad that so few people read books anymore that it’s perceived as being like a trance. What about daydreaming or watching a movie or playing a video game? Are those trances or like drugs? I’d say those are at least as if not more escapist than reading a book.

She’s a Repedlican, but I can see why you’re confused because everyone likes to pretend she’s somehow less extreme than the other ones. She’s not, just puts on a little show of “being concerned” about things, but always votes right along with the rest of them.

She knows it gives her the best chance of being re-elected.

Do these people think they’re going live forever? Something twists the minds of everyone who gains power. They become absolutely incapable of giving it up voluntarily.

In reverse chronological order:

• The Good Place.
• The Sopranos
• Seinfeld (maybe not the character depth, but the writing)
• Shogun (6-episode miniseries, does that count?)
• The original Bob Newhart show, the one with Suzanne Pleshette.

The suggested 9.5 percent increase would affect more than three million single-family homes, co-ops and condos and over 100,000 commercial buildings, Mr. Mamdani said as he delivered his preliminary spending plan.

The mayor acknowledged that his proposal would not merely force the wealthy to pay more taxes, but would also be a “tax on working- and middle-class New Yorkers,” and stressed that this was not his first choice.

Welp.

Because they want it covered up as much as the US government does.

Go to an ophthalmologist if you haven’t yet, they are a real medical doctor eye specialist. Optometrists only deal with a few basics and while they screen for eye diseases, they mainly just measure and prescribe corrective lenses, they don’t give a diagnosis or prognosis.

BTW my eyes used to get more and more nearsighted over time until I got bifocals. They have a different prescription in the bottom part so when I read or do close up work my eyes aren’t fighting against a far vision Rx. If you read a lot or do a lot of close up stuff you might want to ask about that.

Agreed, everyone should read it all and watch the videos. Warning: prepare yourself first.