Nothing radicalizes you like seeing all your freelancer friends have to pay 30% taxes on their poverty wages. Everyone is out of work, under employed, underpaid if at all. There are no savings and no safety nets. Groceries cost $80 every trip. It feels like I'm bleeding to death.
My AGI was below the threshold for even having to file, but I had to file because I’m freelance/self-employed. Even after literally thousands of dollars in expenses and deductions I still owed over a grand
But if those were employment wages, it would be $0
Madness.
