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[An angry kid sits at his desk in school complaining]

Kid: Ugh why don’t you teach us about things we’ll actually need to know as adults?!

[An unamused teacher]

Teacher: Ok, I’m going to teach you how to do your taxes while also dealing the death of a loved one

[The teacher, wearing the same expression, holds a knife in one hand, and a hamster in the other]

Teacher: Please itemize your deductions while I deal with Mister Hamps, the class pet

[A class of shocked and crying kids look on in horror while trying to simultaneously do their taxes. The cries of the hamster off screen are cut off abruptly]

Hamster: SQWEEE- -

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  • Leviathan@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    As funny as this is, I really think an entire year if not a core course on taxes, tax law, rights, law, etc. would have really fucking helped life.

    • PunnyName@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Most people don’t need an education on how to do their taxes. They simply need maths and reading comprehension. It’s not that hard.

      • PunnyName@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        Incorrect. TurboTax and H&R Block don’t want you to know these things. And they lobby to keep the IRS crippled.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      If we get to wish for a public policy to change, then I’d rather we get 100% of our taxes from the rich, calculated by the government. Henry George was right.

      • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
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        8 hours ago

        I’ll say it as much as I can. Tax business, on profit not individuals on their salary. Salary comes from a business paying you, they have accountants, they can pay taxes.

        And when you tax profits, they have the incentive to reinvest in the company, either by hiring more people, or building things, or spending money on research. Instead of giving record profits to shareholders.

        Of course you can have small businesses below certain employee numbers exempt or something like that to help new businesses.

        This of course means you can’t hand out “government help” by just taking less taxes from people already making money, and have to install give real help to people in need irrespective of their salary.

        And of course there might be some details that should be added to make it good.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      in HS I took a class for small business. we learned things like how to use spreadsheets(the paper kind) as well as balancing accounts. we had a whole section based on pricing with supply and demand.

      I think we even covered things like different investment options for money.

      out of all my friends in my youth, I was the only one who knew how to create a budget and balance my accounts.

      wealth intelligence is important to ensure you can not only grow your savings, but protect it as well.

      most people don’t even know what a fiduciary is and why it’s important, let alone why a CD might be better than a savings account.

    • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      A lot of schools do teach laws, rights and the like to students now.

      Taxes, not so useful when filing laws regularly change.