Legal and moral philosophy aside, I've got this to say: Just finished a two week nightmare of trying to do my wife's taxes. Mine were no problem, I worked at a community college and the government takes care of its own. She had an internship and was billed as an independent contractor (what Stack talked about in the tax code). She made less than a quarter of poverty-level income. Her effective tax was negative 800 dollars, but because she was an independent contractor, she owes the government $250.
I'll repeat this. She made less than one quarter of poverty level income (she was single at the time). She owes the government 10% of her BELOW POVERTY LEVEL income, because she had the audacity to work under the IRS's "self-employed" label.
Stack's not crazy. He just has better access to machinery than most people.
Also, start grouping with bards. These pre-10 levels are terrible.
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