Remy: Best Song Ever! (One Direction Parody - Tax Code Edition)
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- Опубліковано 29 січ 2025
- Remy channels One Direction to help us understand the tax code.
Written and performed by Remy. Music tracks and background vocals by Ben Karlstrom. Produced and edited by Meredith Bragg.
Approximately 2 minutes.
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LYRICS:
Make them pay four months of earnings (oh, that's a good one)
Have them look for lost receipts (ooh, I like it!)
They'll have about as much fun
as their last colonoscopy
People everywhere will get ripped off...
the paper version of the Apple Watch
And we'll dance all night, it's the best code ever
Some folks pay a lot, others they pay never
And you'll get tax breaks if you're really clever
It'll take so long, it's the best code ever
They'll be like "oh, oh no"
We'll be like "yeah, yeah, yeah."
We'll be like "awww."
You may have heard that all your info
on our systems can be hacked with ease
But rest assured if they don't get them
they'll be in the care of folks like these
Yes historians will all agree
among the greatest works in history
And we'll dance all night, it's the best code ever
Some folks pay a lot, others they pay never
and if you don't comply you'll go to jail, however
Why would you not file? It's the best code ever
They'll be like "Oh, oh no"
We'll be like "yeah, yeah, yeah"
To put that 4million words into perspective: a book counts as a novel from 50k words. The US tax code is therefore as long as 80 novels.
Well, it is not going to lose any of those pages any time soon Cancer/Government is always hungry for more.
Also any version of the bible is under 1 million words
I think it's twice the length of the entire 10 book fantasy series Malazan Book of the Fallen
That's almost as long as the Wheel of Time (4.4 million words).
But novels are fun to read and the code isn’t so it feels more like 800 than 80. I would know, I’ve read that much.
Greatest Written Works in History
#4 - U.S. Tax Code
#3 - Mein kampf
#2 - Rolling Stone Magazine
#1 - 50 Shades of Grey
Well, "Mein Kampf" really isn't a good read at all. Good thing the author didn't go pro!
@@elchefe7701 😂😂
#5 - Your comment (lol)
#4 friedman #3 hayek #2 adam #1 smith
I had the impulse to share this with a friend, then I remembered -- her husband makes his living as an IRS agent. They wouldn't appreciate it.
more of a reason to share it... not your fault he chose a career as a bureaucrat
Id imagine IRS workers would want a simpler tax code, it would make there jobs easier
Well I don't appreciate him no one likes to face the fact they are a criminal leach upon others.
@@Barskor1 Exactly, let him know that he is a worthless thug who makes a living stealing from the rest of us.
@@fahadsheikh9035 the thing is most of* these people are just trying to feed their families. It's often not them that make calls but must follow orders. Blame the system. I agree compliance is not a good look but think more about it as a fundamental issue of the country. We shouldn't be paying this much in taxes, we should know where it goes exactly and that the people who run the IRS and the Fed and criminals. That's what needs to be reformed. Not the low level workers.
I've never seen a below par video from Remy, they're all so great and true and funny. Another GOLD video Remy!
The current tax code is what happens when politicians and bureaucrats are allowed free reign to design an ad hoc system, pushed and pulled by the tides of special interests. But while a "fair tax", "flat tax", or any of the other proposed solutions would alleviate some of the filing nightmares that Remy rightly mocks in his video, they don't address the underlying disease - exorbitant taxation by an out-of-control government for a host of programs which grossly overstep Constitutional authority. Truly limit the federal government, and the means of taxation will be of negligible importance.
Simon Kanner "unpatriotic" because the government does the most stupid things on earth
S.H. K. Blindly accepting government overreach isn't patriotism. America was founded on the principles of fundamental human rights and limited government. Our government could never honestly be described as American.
Dont wake up in 2020.
Every slave wishes their masters would bother them less and take as little as possible from them.
Defund the TSA. End special interest lobbying. And for God's sake, we need accountability for where the money goes. Fucking Rand Paul is the closest I've seen to disclosure with his yearly Festivus reports lol I love them.
"A tax is a tax. Slavery is slavery," someone wrote below. That is my view of property taxes, which you pay annually to ensure the government can't take your home and land.
Think about that. If you don't pay, then it goes to a tax sale and it's not yours. But if you have to pay taxes to keep it in your name, is it really yours to begin with?
Would you pay the Toyota or Ford dealer annually after you've made the last payment? No, of course not because you've got a clear title. But somehow we pay our local government for the right to keep what is ours -- and don't think twice about it.
I bought a home and acreage according to my deed and my survey. So I don't know how you could possibly suggest that.
If it's true, then my annual property tax bill should be for undeveloped acreage, which of course it's not.
But your suggestion sounds so nutty it just might be true.
***** "You own the house. Not the land."
Fuck that. Fuck "Georgians" or whatever they call themselves. I own it, morally.
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It wouldn't be London. "Manifest Destiny" type claims were transferred from the king to the United States government some time in the late 1700s. My dispute would be with them.
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In that case the Bank of London can get in line with all the other parties who think they are owed something because they were stupid enough to loan something to the state a long, long time ago. "With legal authority" as if anyone could do anything to enforce it.
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Yeah, using blue helmets for anything serious is probably not going to work. The problem with embargoes is they wouldn't help the value of any debt owned. That's like the cutting off your nose thing. Most of the world already leeches off of U.S. military power and medical investment among other things.
Taxes, where the government takes your hard earned labor.
S.H. K. - It’s not our fault government can’t control its finances
@@SimonKanner-si3it we also want to cut spending so we can lower taxes
Taxes where slavery happens and most everyone is clueless that it is happening.
Isn't the current tax code, convoluted as it is, the result of a bunch of corporate lobbyists asking for additional clauses to be put in to work in their favor and against that of their competitors?
The only good thing about tax day-a new Remy video! The paper version of the Apple watch 😂
1:26 showing Al Sharpton as he says "some folks pay alot, other they pay never" i just lost it. Especially the mini Remys dancing behind him
Im paying 78% income tax on my IT company(One man, me) it's so much fun to give my government more than half of what I make
@@ericturner2477 it's just not. But who knows maybe he is from North Korea
@@SamLopeZz it is for several things in the US, particularly look at how they tax gamers or small home setups that use GPUs to mine. You cannot deduct electric usage as expense (or really even the GPUs used to mine), but they will tax all profits the instant when it is mined (and it's volitile, so if it crashes, well good news you are still taxed for the high value moment in time, but if it increases and doubled in value don't forget you'll be taxed additionally like investment income). But let's pretend it's stable, so you spend about $150/month on electric, and ~80% of your electric bill is mining (you don't get to deduct this), and maybe you make $150 that month, so really your income was $30, however you have above a 50% tax rate (it's outright over 50%) on $150 not $30 because you aren't allowed to deduct that electricity expense, and don't forget you still had to buy those thousand dollar GPUs WITHOUT a tax exemption, and you cannot deduct the cost or replacement of GPUs/Power supplies/fans or anything else. So when you do the math you indeed will be about $90 income tax on $30 profits... You pay a 300% tax rate (not counting equipment costs and maintenance) So yes, yes you can be taxed in the US far over 100%.
@@ericturner2477 it's all the little taxes combined, think corporate tax, income tax, state tax, etc, he probably have to pay all of them, so in Cali, that would be around 77%
@@jakegarrett8109 sounds like get a valid job instead of hoarding gpus for easy money
Property tax and income tax needs to end
REMY NAILS IT AGAIN! --- I have no choice but to feature this song on today's radio show
I'll be sharing this one!
Oh Remy, you're one of the few satirist who I'd call brilliant!
=)
Always hits the spot!
Munasifi. Extreme contemporary talent.
You are the best. Thank you so much.
So fucking truth. Thank you for your videos!
Awesome! Another amazing video by Remy. We need more Remy
Remy I love you so much!!
Remy has taught me a lot about taxes.
It’s a long time since I had a hero, but REMY is my new idol. He is so very funny. And his sarcasm is spot on.
I laughed my ass off when he said " the paper version of the Apple Watch"
Only Remy could make me laugh at taxes. I'm opposed to taxes because I believe slavery is morally repugnant, and taxes are one of the most insidious forms of slavery. What else would you call a claim on the product of another person's labor?
Liberty4Ever They'd have you believe it's a "right".
Liberty4Ever A tax is a tax. Slavery is slavery. One has nothing to do with another. And you can stop paying taxes in the U.S. any time you like - you can exit at any time. The right of exit is probably the most important, as it's really free association. And the U.S. allows you to disassociate from it whenever you'd like. And please do so, as I'm really getting tired of the hysteria from folks like you.
Now, you can complain that income taxes are theft. You can complain about excise taxes sales taxes or tariffs or Value Added Taxes, or the level of taxation - as I do. But none of those taxes make me a slave because I choose to continue to live here. Just like you. We could even agree that this is worth throwing a revolution over - but that still wouldn't make it slavery. Slavery is the ownership of another human being, and the govt has no ownership of you because it taxes you. Language matters and when you abuse it in this way you are not considered a serious person.
Anarchist libertarians are a big part of the Reason that libertarianism has been marginalized. It's this kind of hysterical, unnecessary rhetoric that does it. Grow up.
***** Most productive people in the US pay around 25% in federal taxes, maybe 10% in state taxes, and 8-10% in local taxes. That's 45%, right off the top. Then you pay for stuff with your post-tax earnings and... MORE taxes. Sales taxes. Excise taxes. Hotel taxes. Taxes on cell phones, cable TV, internet service, electricity, water... you name it. Then there are the embedded taxes. Businesses are taxed and they naturally need to pass those expenses on when they sell their products and services. The taxes accumulate as goods and services move up the supply chain, just as pesticides are concentrated as they move up the food chain. The result is 45-55% of the cost of everything we purchase with the money that's left to us after we pay income taxes goes to indirectly pay more taxes. Courtesy of the Federal Reserve, we have a managed 5% inflation that is nothing but a hidden tax, year after year, eating away at the value of any dollar denominated savings we may have. Buy a house or car? Nope. Property taxes mean you pay a large security deposit and you're forever renting your property as long as you "own" it. The entire notion of property is destroyed by property taxes that persist in perpetuity.
Whether I'm 100% a slave or 50% a slave, it's slavery nonetheless. Any difference is at best a difference in degree. The 50% slave is a more efficient slave, because we must earn enough for our master, and then earn enough to pay for our own shelter, food, and other living expenses. The material needs of the 100% slave are fully met by the owner. Our system of tax slavery forces us all to be the best slaves we can be, and progressive taxation ensures that when you make a little more, they take a lot more. It's obviously a method to ensure that the working class has only enough to pay for their own basic needs, and our masters get everything else we produce.
And your suggestion to love it or leave it must be a joke. Show me one acre of land on this entire planet where a person can live free. You can't. There is no place where we can opt out of tax slavery. The only choice we might have is deciding on whose tax plantation we want to live.
You told me to grow up. I'd suggest that you should wake up.
***** Taxation is "Free Range Slavery". Free Range Chickens lay more eggs in the same way that free range slaves are much more profitable for their masters than chattel slaves.
Chattel slaves are fed and housed and are always trying to find ways to escape. They won't work unless someone is standing over them and prodding them along. Free range slaves are responsible for their own food and housing. They also work much harder with far less supervision because they get to choose their jobs. Chattel slavery has fallen out of favor not because the ruling class suddenly realized it was morally wrong but because they realized they could make much more money by "freeing" their slaves.
***** FYI The U.S. government levies taxes against worldwide income. In order to avoid this you would have to renounce your citizenship. That being said, I agree that taxes are not synonymous with slavery; they are the price we pay for the benefits of life in American society.
However, when the government wastes as much money as ours does (and so frivolously to boot) it becomes easier to understand his assertion that forcing someone to work for the benefit of another is a type of indentured servitude (if not outright chattel slavery).
Another right crucial to continued freedom and prosperity is the right to petition the government for the redress of grievances (a type of freedom of speech). After all, the evil of taxation without representation was one of the key principles the founding of the country.
If we fail to acknowledge that, your argument would simply boil down to "If you don't like it, GTFO," which we have been told is a racist / jingoistic / xenophobic thing to say, no?
1:16 Is the greatest truth ever stated.
I'm still ticked off that no one has voted for Tacks Nuhting
GREATEST WRITTEN WORKS IN HISTORY:
#4 - US Tax Code
#3 - Mein Kampf
#2 - Rolling Stone Magazine
#1 - 50 Shades of Grey
If you get audited, just tell them your hard drive crashed. They're obviously cool with that.
It’s crazy he made such a funny video and only 200 people commented on it
genius!!
We need the tax code the way it is. In fact it is important that it becomes more complicated every year. Not only does it prop up and expand both the tax preparation and accounting industries, but also the IRS itself as the IRS itself thus keeping countless people employed doing pointless paperwork to pay for endless wars and reckless spending.
I'd love to see someone try to defend our taxcode though. In my experience even the people who think the main purpose of taxes is to punish the bourgeois oppressors want them to pay a flat 90-200%.
I was being sarcastic. I'm an anarcho-capitalist tbh and against all taxation, I'm also a realist who knows he would be lucky as hell to see a flat tax or something in my lifetime.
My second paragraph in that post was not sarcastic, I really would love to see someone defend our tax code as it is now. Considering the fact that, at this point no one or almost no one truly understands our tax code due to it's complexity, including the politicians we elect, we undeniably have the proverbial "Taxation without Representation" lol.
I should have made it more obvious I was joking. My initial idea for a post was a reference to the works of Isaac Asimov [towards the end of I Robot IIRC] comparing the ever increasing complexity of the tax code to positronic brains becoming so complex that only robots with positronic brains could build them, which is Asimov being more or less prophetic of the constant increases in computing power we are experiencing now. But I didn't write it that way because even if they got the joke no one would find it funny, so I just went with sarcastic instead. I ought to delete this paragraph.
Ahhh, my annual tax theme song.
_Make them pay four months of earnings (oh, that's a good one)_
_Have them look for lost receipts (ooh, I like it!)_
_They'll have about as much fun as their last colonoscopy_
_People everywhere will get ripped off..._
_the paper version of the Apple Watch_
This is like the worst poem _ever._
Lets work hard to get the 'Fair Tax' which is basically a better tax system, passed...
MRSketch09 Flat tax or no tax.
Bushrod Rust Johnson Fairtax is better than a mere "flat tax" because it gets well rid of our current complicated tax system for something much more straight forward. After all its not a tax that's hampering everyone.. its our current tax system in the US.
MRSketch09
The thing about a flat tax is that there IS no complicated system. It is the most straight forward you can get, besides having no tax at all. All the common "fair tax" ideas are something other-than-flat. Maybe flatter than the current "system", but still with certain exceptions and bullshit. It only takes a few dumb alterations to the flatness of the tax, for it to be easy for rent-seekers to implement even more.
MRSketch09 End the IRS and then the federal government should only get money from state's governments and tariffs. Keep the federal government away from the citizens.
d8d8
No, fuck tariffs too. Tax all goods and services an equal percentage of their cost, or not at all.
2024 still relevant. History doesn't change
End the IRS and the Federal Reserve Bank!
I prepare taxes for a living.... And honestly I find the federal tax code to be pretty damn easy to understand.
State tax codes on the other hand...(looking at you New York, California and Ohio) those are just mind rending.
OKAY I AM HOOKED ON YOU!!!!! DO YOU HAVE TAPES OR CD'S TO PLAY???? I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING FOR OVER AN HOUR!!!!!!
How maddening would it be if taxes were mostly voluntary all this time. Lolol
i bet my lawyer dances and laughs every day too
The tax code is too complex. That’s why we should make all of the deductions and credits automatic transfers with no filing obligations
Nice touch associating the tax code with "Mein Kampf".
I usually love these videos, but this one just makes me angry. We have yet another lobbying group that perpetuates this cycle with tax attorneys and prepairers who can't even understand the entire mess of tax code themselves but make a fortune from it. I've been caught up in their mess before. The IRS will complain about under staffing, but have enough manpower to 'randomly' go through past years of returns and find errors that they can pursue for far less revenue than the cost of resources that were put into the revue.
Just had a TurboTax commercial after this lol
Maybe someone can check my math but using round numbers a man-year in the US is 2,000 hours. This means the US loses 3,000,000 man-years to taxes. Hypothetically if we assume 1/8th of those hours could be used for work, at $8/per hour this would also mean the U.S. loses a dollar per each hour working on taxes.
So glad I come from a country where the taxes are calculated for everyone automatically.
6.1B hrs is about 10,000 human lifetimes (70yrs)
reminds me of my insurance, i pay lot and others without my lawyer pay never.
Is this secretly a TurboTax commercial? Because it makes me very glad that TurboTax exists.*
*This commenter was not paid to make this post.
We have almost 200,000 pages of major federal legislation. The constitution says that anything not explicitly listed in the constitution is illegal for the federal government to do. Think about that.
Yes this help my problem in my school yes tnx
and to think ..it's only gotten worse with the recent trump tax plan .. Like seriously I tried to do it wiht a simple ..but i still think it came out wrong.
1:19 Oh man, too funny
if all ya libertarians could finish building those seasteads you've been talking about so I can move to one of them soon that be great
check out phase one- new hamshire!
I got an ad for turbo tax on this video
They should redo everything in simple language, but they won’t do that. Its this way on purpose you know.
I never understand Americans problems with their taxes.
Come to germany and you will see what a real tax-law looks like...
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In norway you pay 30% a year and you don't have to do anything.They send you a letter, with how much you paid.End of story.
Rey should do a "Lips R Moving" Obama version.
Okay, this one was good. lmao
We pay taxes to ensure access to our God-given rights. Turns out, that transaction does not come with a guarantee.
60% have errors? Who understands the tax codes well enough to make that determination? Pretty sure minimum wage drones check the returns, if anyone, and pretty sure they make mistakes.
Sad part is I have no idea who that lady was.
But... taxes aren't that hard. 95% of the tax code doesnt apply to 95% of people.....
As for property tax, you own property rights, not the property. You can use it as you see fit, but rightful ownership of the physical land is held entirely by the Federal government....
Others pay never🤣🤣🤣🤣
Kafka would have exploded if he heard this...
# bureaucracy
I love my Apple watch
i rather have colon than my insurance
I feel like the Apple Watch is a pretty good deal
I am a liberal and I really hate tax. It took me literally 40 days to prepare my 2020. I think i need to change my political views, but then i can't vote for a part with kkk members. We are stuck.
Just don’t pay them.
HAHAHHAHAHHAHA
Who is that "Caring Employee"?
Lois Lerner lol
😁
A little underwhelming but fun.
for me its the insurance rip off theme
Taxes are a necessary evil
Arresting someone for hurt feelings is not.
It still sounds bad wow
Don't knock it, maybe if you had an Apple Watch you could finally get in shape.