Microsoft owes $29 billion in back taxes plus penalties and interest to IRS::The IRS sent a surprise bill to Microsoft, hitting the company with a $28.9 billion bill for back taxes and penalties spanning a decade, starting in 2003.

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Clash of the titans - government leech vs global corporation.

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In this case IRS but in general, every tax office.

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So where are all those fake democrats complaining that Biden’s funding the IRS is just going to have them go after small businesses and the lower/middle classes?

How’s that go? Gaslight, obstruct, project? lol

The IRS overwhelmingly go after poor people as they don’t have the means to defend themselves and end up settling out of desperation.

I’m sure after they get more money they’ll totally change though lol

Applejacks where you at buddy?

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False dichotomy. They can go for a big, easy target as well as little peeps. Monitoring $600 transactions kind of shows they’re not just interested in big guys.

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Right? It’s so silly that they think it’s an all or nothing process. Then again, it’s the internet lmfao.

How about we uphold that the law and taxes are for ALL people, not just rich or poor. We have graduated/progressive tax brackets for a reason. Everyone should be paying their fair share.

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Yea but the us military depends on them continuing to support xp just for them soooooo, why should they pay? They could literally cripple the world

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At this point, the military should just switch to Linux!

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Problem is, there’s a lot of really specialized, critical software, that is provided by vendors and throws an absolute fit with any change. You could maybe run Windows in a VM, but it may not work with the specialized hardware and networking gear being used, and now you’re spending a bunch of extra time and money setting up a vm if windows inside Linux, which means you also have to train everyone on how to use the VM, adds another management/security issue, and adds another point of failure.

If they ever switch (the entire govt should, it would be so awesome to see the govt resources put into Linux development instead of M$ pockets) it’d have to be a very gradual process, and windows would still be around decades from now for legacy systems. (If the US hasn’t imploded in civil war or the planet melted by then 🫠)

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I mean, the military literally has the guns. Microsoft will support them or it will be nationalized and then support them.

Not exactly a position Microsoft has much actual leverage in.

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Well, they can put Linux requirement to goverment contracts right now.

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I hope they pay up and we just send that to Ukraine as aid.

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Wow I wish I could not pay taxes for 3 decades and like do something nice with all that money…

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Well, in fairness, they didn’t do anything nice with the money either.

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Microsoft has lots of kickass stuff. Just Bing it, bro. Or jump on Teams with me and I’ll explain it while I rock out with my Zune.

/s obv

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Becoming a monopoly and tech giant is pretty nice…

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Okay they aren’t good, but seriously what makes them a monopoly? I haven’t seen anyone make a good argument for this. There isn’t a single industry they’re in, that I know or can think of, that they hold enough market capture to be a monopoly.

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