The Treasury sends you a refund if you overpay your taxes, stupid. If you were a taxpayer instead of your parents’ dependent, you’d have had some experience with that.

Well, I mean, you can either try to negotiate, build consensus, and develop political power and influence in excess of theirs; or you can sit there and hope that out of the goodness of their hearts they instruct Republicans to raise their taxes... oh, wait. It turns out, that doesn’t matter, either.

What if he just announced that, “I so object to the policies of Trump and the Republicans that I will pay in almost $1 billion in taxes to the US government next year.”

The dossier didn’t come out until after the election. Nothing about your story makes sense, here.

The author is a dumbass with an agenda.

It was specifically written to be a political hit piece.

My car is paid off, so I’ll be living rent free when it all burns down.

But man, if you think foreign policy and the economy would be any less fucked with a Democrat you are dreaming.

In practice it’s pretty hard to get the bank to admit that they, and not you, are the victim of a crime and thus are the one with the obligation to pursue me (the fraudster in this example.)

When transitioning from a barter system to using currency that’s how you make people sell their cows or grain for coins.

USB flash storage isn’t long-term archival, though. What are you going to do when your flash media just spontaneously loses integrity?

Sure, but on the other hand your bank will cash out your accounts and give me the money if I ask the right person in the right way. Just sayin’.

That was in fact the point of using gold, it was universally accepted by everyone and could travel between empires and kingdoms without a problem

There is a finite amount of Bitcoin that can exist (21 million).

Actual money has actual value, because it is backed by governments and accepted by society.

Can you use Bluetooth on an airplane?

Can you use Bluetooth on an airplane?

but this is what progressives will tell you

I mean I know where the food labelling group sits, but I don’t work with them. I can’t tell you what kind of pressure they experience or don’t experience. I don’t have any reason to doubt their commitment to reflecting the state of the science in the way that best advises the American food consumer, if that’s what…

I’m actually keeping your Eggos from killing you, but you’re welcome, citizen.

Industry pressure to force them to weaken a health-related claim they’d like to make? How do you imagine that working, exactly?