• SeaJ
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    3811 months ago

    The charges are centered on at least $1.4 million in taxes Hunter Biden owed during between 2016 and 2019, a period where he has acknowledged struggling with addiction. The back taxes have since been paid.

    So the taxes are paid? Fine him for being a fuck up and move on.

    • @Something_Complex@lemmy.world
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      1511 months ago

      Wait so bro was a junkie all was fine. Now that he’s trying to get his act back together, which is incredibly hard and painful to do. They are jumping on him, shit I wish we could all start seeing addiction as it is, not a crime but a disease.

      I’m not saying that being addicted should make you immune to crimes, or that you shouldn’t deal with the consequences of your own actions.

      But come on… It’s a disgrace, letting people with real mental problems go about without proper treatment. It’s repeating the cycle. This whole persecution campaign from the republicans makes 0 sense.

      He got his shit back together, wich is more then most people who ever had an addiction…it is low key impressive

      • @spudwart@spudwart.com
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        211 months ago

        It makes perfect sense.

        Republicans want to throw anyone not considered normal in prison.

        And if that not-normal person is a politically advantageous target, then it’s twice as sensible.