Meet TikTok poster NicStanton0 who has some really bad advice for her fellow right-wing lunatics: Stop funding the government by refusing to pay your payroll taxes! It’s easy, she says: simply select “exempt” on your W-4 form to avoid paying taxes! How easy is that??? “Do you know what that means?” she says gleefully (and absolutely incorrectly). “You no longer pay federal income tax! You get to keep all of your money!”
How this individual woman found a way to avoid paying income taxes that literally generations of workers have simply overlooked is astounding! Now NO ONE will ever have to pay ANY federal income tax because they simply checked a box on a form!
Wha–? Checking that box doesn’t exempt you from paying income tax? It just zeroes out the amount of withholdings taken out of each paycheck so you have to pay 100% cash when you fill out your 1040 annual income tax return–which will likely result in a cash flow problem for people like this brainiac? Well, jeez, that doesn’t sound great….