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Doing Your Taxes Is Gonna Suck Next Year

Most people wait until the last frost of the year before even thinking about filing their taxes. The process sucks, and the only way it could suck more is if you had a hungry ocelot in the room with you.

Which is exactly what Trump has done.

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Shrewd businessman that Trump is, he's proposing a 14 percent reduction in the operating budget for the IRS. While you may initially think "Sweet, more money for Big Macs and balloon rides in April!" temper that enthusiasm, bucko. With those cuts also come the potential loss of a few things that assist you during your annual tax-filing adventure. Things like customer service. This has been a trend since 2010, with several reductions in the IRS budget already having occurred.

Enforcement will be another victim of these cuts, and before you say "Yay! Tax Fraud!" we'd like to encourage you to say "Boo! Tax Fraud!" instead. Not only do audits protect you from identity theft and fraud, but they also keep wealthy folk honest, which ultimately reduces your tax burden. Since the series of cuts in 2010, the agency has lost $5 billion in revenue from not being able to audit people.

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Compound all of this with a newly proposed tax structure (which normally would require an agency like the IRS to be fully staffed and operating at the height of its capabilities), and this vital government service which has historically paid for itself could be spread so thin that taxes eventually won't matter and cheese will become the prevailing currency.

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The Gun Industry Is Hurting

One of the stranger effects of a Trump presidency, or really of any Republican presidency, is the damage it does to the gun industry. It just doesn't sound right. Republicans generally love gun rights, so how could gun sales do anything but spike with one of their own in charge?

The answer lies with fear. Fear of Hillary Clinton, of Obama, of any form of gun control, really. Democrats are awesome for gun sales, as evidenced by this handy chart of the number of guns manufactured during the past few years:

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With Trump in office, gun owners aren't afraid that they're about to lose their right to buy penguin rifles or whatever the hot new gun is, so they're not getting them quite as much as they were before. Gun manufacturers like Ruger and American Outdoor Brands (formerly Smith & Wesson) saw a more than 14 percent drop in sales the day after the election. Combine this with an already existing downward trend in the number of gun-owning households ...

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Trump's Constant Vacations Leave A Trail Of Mayhem

It's a bit of an understatement to say that President Trump likes his vacations, whether it's golfing at his Florida resort, golfing somewhere else, or talking about golf with wealthy donors at his Florida resort. The dude is always on the go.

There's the obvious cost of all these trips to the taxpayers, even if it is a little hard to say exactly how much they cost. It is fair to say that they aren't cheap, though, and again, he does go quite a bit. But these trips have a lot of other hidden costs as well. Trump's frequent jaunts to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida take a variety of tolls on the local economy. When Trump is in town, local residents have to deal with things like detours and restaurant cancellations. Local airspace is shut down, which means local airports lose hundreds of thousands in fuel sales. On top of this, there's all the overtime needed to pay the sheriffs and deputies who guard the many closed roads that come with his visits.

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Even when he's on Air Force One, he has a bubble of restricted airspace surrounding him at all times, which is particularly problematic seeing as he likes to travel back and forth in some of most congested airspace in the country. And while there's already a no-fly zone radius around Trump Tower in Manhattan, when he's in town, that bubble extends to almost the entire island, which is devastating the local aviation industry.

And speaking of his little tower, while traffic around it has never been conducive to a Smokey And The Bandit chase scene, since Trump's election, congestion has massively increased, with predictable impacts to stores and other businesses in the area.

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Tourists Are Scared Of America

How would you encourage someone to come visit America? You'd probably point to some of our admirable qualities, like our theme parks, or our freedom of religion and the press, or our farmer-specific dating websites.

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Athletes Don't Want To Visit Us Either

One thing that persists through war, recession, and shitty presidential administrations is our beloved world of sports. Which isn't to say our various leagues of millionaires don't go through their own tough times. But normally, the sitting president doesn't have much effect on their popularity or financial success.

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Trump's Tweets Are Screwing With The Stock Market

Donald Trump's Twitter feed is an endless string of potshots, half-truths, and exclamation marks. But it's just Twitter. Beyond providing fodder for The Daily Show and John Oliver to goof on, none of this has really affected much in the real world, right?

Well, actually, when President Trump logs into Twitter, the ramifications can be very serious. In March, Trump tweeted that he was working on a system to encourage competition in the pharmaceutical industry, presumably to drive down prices so that people will live longer and he can absorb their life juices. Immediately after posting that, the healthcare index on Wall Street dropped by half a percentage point, with Johnson & Johnson in particular taking a large hit. And when Trump's daughter Ivanka had her clothing line removed from Nordstrom shelves, he lashed out at the department store:

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Although Trump's fans might have responded to this by halting their planned purchases at Nordstrom, his enemies responded even harder with vows to shop there more, and Nordstrom's stock saw a 5 percent leap in value by the end of the day.

These aren't the only examples; over 60 companies have been directly affected by Trump's posts. There are now apps that can track your company's stock value when Trump mentions you in a tweet, and at least some companies are beginning to insure themselves so that they can weather any major dips caused by whatever spews out of the president's smartphone that day. One PR firm even sent out a company-wide directive to treat Trump's tweets same way they would a natural disaster.

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On the plus side, one company has created the "Trump and Dump Bot" which scours Trump's Twitter feed for instances of him taking a public shit on a company and then shorts the stock. The bot's creators donate everything they make to the ASPCA, so it's technically heartwarming too.

Still terrifying, though. Let's not let that go.

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