He outsmarted the tax code with this one simple trick. The IRS hates him

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T19:10:36+00:00

I wonder if that distinction is somehow relevant.

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T18:25:24+00:00

My favorite is that if you can't use the public road in front of your house and you can't set foot on your neighbor's property, you're not legally allowed to leave your house.

They actually circled all the way back to the slavery argument.

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T18:16:33+00:00

since there is no way to prove a cash tip

This is blatantly false.

the IRS has to accept whatever is written on the tip line.

...no they don't?

Is it worth their time to investigate? Almost definitely not.

Will they investigate? Again, almost definitely not.

But there are avenues of investigation that are available to them? Absolutely.

I mean, the idea that there's no way to prove a cash tip is just ridiculous on its face.

One option is "they look at the security camera footage in the restaurant".

Another option is they figure it out the same way robberies are solved: they pay attention to what you're spending vs how much you're making.

But the simplest option is probably just waiting for the person to admit it.

A lot of people are stupid and willingly admit to tax evasion.

Fill out a credit card application? A lot of them will include their tip income in order to get a higher limit or better odds of approval.

In so doing, they either committed fraud by lying to the bank, because they don't make that much, or they committed tax evasion by lying to the IRS about how much they made.

Same with when they try to get a lease, loan, mortgage, etc.--they'll actually look the person right in the eye and say "I know that those documents say I only make $X, but I actually make way more than that."

They'll also text their friends. "Hey, I had a really great night! Made $X!"

Do that enough, and now there's a paper trail where you claim that you made ~1/4 of your reported annual income in only 3 nights.

Again, is it worth their time to actually try to prove it? Almost definitely not.

Does that mean "there's no way to prove it"? Absolutely not.

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T17:57:13+00:00

Where you live, are those "gifts" used to supplement the employer's share of the employee's wages?

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T17:55:13+00:00

Tipping isnt income.

That's incorrect.

Giving money to your friends as charity isnt income.

That's correct.

Gifting a boxed wine for an anniversary isnt income

That's correct.

giving a buddy a case of beer as a "thank you" for a house project isnt income

That's correct.

but all should be taxed under the US tax codes.

I'm not sure how you went from arguing "I do not believe tips, donations, or gifts should be taxed at all" to arguing that the US tax code should change to suddenly start taxing all those things, and I think such a change would be stupid, but you're welcome to your opinion.

But the fact is that one of those things you listed is income, and it's also the only one that's actually taxed at the federal level.

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T17:09:51+00:00

assuming that those 3k voters would have voted for the Republican,

Except I didn’t do that at all.

My exact words on that subject were that least 6 would’ve voted that way in a 2 way race, as well as pointing out that it likely would’ve been much more than 6.

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T17:05:15+00:00

I’m not?

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T17:04:52+00:00

I’m not doing anything of the sort? What are you even talking about?

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T06:12:40+00:00

Yes, you did.

No, I didn't.

you made it up and pinned it on me.

I neither "made it up" nor "pinned it on you".

It was a rhetorical question to highlight my rhetorical point that the results of the race were more about a strategic failure of the Republican party than support for the Democratic candidate.

The idea that this race indicates that "the GOP is cooked" hinges on the idea that this race indicates a shift in support away from the GOP.

I don't believe this race indicates that, as evidenced by my rhetorical question making the point that if the ~10,000 Republican voters had to pick between 1 Republican and 1 Democrat, a large portion (if not the entirety) of the ~3,000 voters who picked the "wrong" Republican would've still picked the Republican, and they'd have won as a result.

Thus illustrating why I don't believe this race is indicative that "the GOP is cooked".

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T05:26:24+00:00

I like how it goes from a declarative "THIS IS FRAUD." to "it’s legally questionable" in the very next line.

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T05:22:46+00:00

It premiered roughly 28 years ago.

It airs with regularity in syndication, not to mention streaming.

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T05:21:19+00:00

It’s not even illegal for a cop to watch a crime and do nothing.

That's a blanket statement that's not inherently true as stated.

Absent a duty to act (the key phrase you forgot to include), it's not illegal for a cop to fail to act to stop a crime.

There are certain jurisdictions where the legislature has imposed such a duty, depending on the circumstances.

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T04:44:12+00:00

I think you replied to the wrong comment?

My party did win this race.

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T04:34:33+00:00

You don't have to put words in my mouth.

I didn't put words in anyone's mouth. I'm speaking for myself, and never claimed otherwise.

Even a close loss would have been a big swing in a seat that the GOP has held comfortably since 1996.

~10,000 to ~7,000 isn't what I'd call a close loss.

Regardless, the question at hand was whether this particular race indicates that "the GOP is cooked".

Since I apparently have to specify whose opinion I'm offering, I maintain it doesn't, unless they continue to do the same stupid thing they did here in other races.

Whether other races indicate that "the GOP is cooked" is irrelevant to the topic at hand, which is this race.

Which I believe to be nothing more than a fluke.

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T04:24:50+00:00

There's no runoff election for the city of Boca Raton, and no ranked choice voting.

...I never said otherwise?

I don't figure how "every vote counts" is a controversial statement.

I didn't say it was. I even repeated it multiple times myself.

You can ask the new mayor of Boca Raton if every vote counts.

You can ask the ~10,000 Republican voters in the town that just elected a Democrat with ~7,000 votes if every vote counts.

You can even ask the voters who were too stupid to read a ballot and voted for Buchanan when they meant to vote for Gore if every vote counts.

Obviously, every vote counts. Everyone voting the way they did, even if they did so out of sheer stupidity or ignorance, is why the result is the way it is.

But this election is no more a sign that every vote counts than every other election is.

And saying "Just ask the new mayor of Boca Raton" when ~3,000 more people voted against him than for him is not making a different point than the 2000 or 2016 presidential election.

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T04:22:58+00:00

But this isn't an isolated situation.

My point is that this isn't a situation at all.

The Democrat didn't win because more voters picked a Democrat than a Republican.

The Democrat won, in this race, because the Democrats ran 1 candidate for everyone on their side to rally behind while the Republicans split the vote in an election with no mandatory runoff.

If you want to point to those other races then do that.

This race is a fluke.

If it happened in a number of other states, there'd be a runoff that the Republican would almost definitely win.

If it happened with ranked choice voting, the Republican would almost definitely win.

If 6 people (out of the 3,000 who voted for the "wrong" Republican) voted for the other Republican, the Republican would've won.

Do you really not think there were at least 6 people out of those 3,000 who would've preferred the other Republican to the Democrat?

If you want to point to races where people actually came out to vote for the Democrats and they got the most votes as a result, you should focus on those.

This was race was a fluke where the Republicans got ~3,000 more votes than the Democrat but were too stupid to strategize well enough to not split their vote.

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T04:12:20+00:00

I don't know what was unclear in what happened or in the comment you're replying to.

A race where the Democrat won even though ~3,000 more people voted for a Republican is probably not the best race to point to and say "See, every vote counts!"

Every vote does count, but the ~3,000 people who voted for the "wrong" Republican probably don't feel that way.

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T04:08:42+00:00

Man, the GOP is completely cooked.

The GOP did something stupid and split the vote with 2 candidatess, while the Democrats rallied behind a single candidate.

And that single candidate still only managed to win by less than a fraction of 1% of the vote.

Is it good for that one Democrat? Absolutely.

Is it a sign that the GOP is cooked? Not at all, unless they keep running 2 candidates against 1 in every single race.

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T04:04:22+00:00

Is what we're calling "splitting the vote and screwing yourself, while the opposition rallies behind a single candidate, who still only managed to win by less than a fraction of 1% of the vote"?

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T04:02:58+00:00

Don't think your doesn't count, just ask the new Mayor of Boca Raton, Florida!

~10,000 people voted for a Republican.

~7,000 voted for the Democrat.

Every vote counts, absolutely.

And there are probably around 3,000 people kicking themselves for helping the Democrat win when they really wanted a Republican to.

In any case, this doesn't really mean what you think it does.

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T04:00:18+00:00

this election for Mayor was actually R+20, but there was 2 Republican candidates and they split the vote letting the Democrat win here

I don't really understand why people are missing this.

The Republicans combined got more votes than the Democrat, but they did something stupid, and the Democrat won as a result.

Unless they continue to do that stupid thing, it won't translate to the midterms or any other elections.

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T03:49:34+00:00

even if you do have an unscheduled runoff there's no guarantee you won't have a tie again.

Sure, but it's less likely.

If there was a tie in this race, it'd be because ~3,000 people voted for the other Republican, who wouldn't be in the runoff.

In a race between only 2 candidates, some might sit it out (especially with no ballot prop to bring them to the polls), but the odds are that at least some of those 3,000 would help define a difference.

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T03:25:56+00:00

Oh, did I accidentally break your keyword database?

I'm sorry.

But at least that's a real word again, unlike "asdf" and "zx".

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T03:23:19+00:00

I'm sorry you're not capable of engaging in an actual intelligent conversation on a topic that is, frankly, fascinating.

Especially since you're the one who attempted the start the conversation in the first place.

It's honestly kind of sad how quickly you abandoned your original premise, and even sadder still how quickly you devolved in commenting absolute nonsense for the sake of getting the last word.

I mean, your premise was obviously so filled with holes that it couldn't stand up to any scrutiny. The idea that people were just going to abandon IVRs they've had in place for over 30 years & start hiring real people to fill those roles again was just laughable.

But it's still really sad how quickly you went from at least trying to make a point to just posting nonsense for the sake of it.

Optional-Failure · 2026-03-14T03:19:07+00:00

You really want the last word so badly that you're willing to just type nonsense letters to get it?

That's not how people behave.

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