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Post by Sean (PickSS) on Apr 14, 2008 17:02:00 GMT -5
I just wrote five checks to pay my taxes  . The way I see it, that would have made for one sweet 67 chevelle parked next to my 66. I owe I Owe it's off to work I go...for what? Ef that ;D Boy I feel better!
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Post by ricks67 on Apr 14, 2008 17:20:45 GMT -5
I know exactly how you feel!
No taxation without representation. HA what good does it do. it's not up to us it's whatever they want to do.
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Post by SpiderDan on Apr 14, 2008 19:08:32 GMT -5
You guys KNOW where I stand.  |
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Post by jchilders on Apr 14, 2008 19:22:07 GMT -5
Taxes suck, but if it makes you feel better I have a client that paid $120 million in taxes in just one year.
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Post by Joe on Apr 14, 2008 20:10:11 GMT -5
Taxes do suck but it worked out for me this year and next...  Although my ex is unhappy they're giving me hers too... ;D |
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Post by Aaron on Apr 15, 2008 11:21:00 GMT -5
i got 350 bucks too much, spent it, then had to send it back....
aaron
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Post by Sean (PickSS) on Apr 15, 2008 14:26:00 GMT -5
Taxes suck, but if it makes you feel better I have a client that paid $120 million in taxes in just one year. I feel much better hearing that one. Let us know when you want to start on your trans...we have acquired much knowledge after Dan's install. ;D |
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Post by SpiderDan on Apr 15, 2008 16:31:36 GMT -5
Some food for thought.....
The insanity of progressive taxation
Exclusive: Joseph Farah marks infamous day by demonstrating irrationality of system
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Posted: April 15, 2008
By Joseph Farah
It's April 15, so everyone is thinking about taxes.
I don't know why we think about them one day a year. Americans should be thinking about them every day – and fighting them.
There are so many frustrating and idiotic reasons to hate the income tax, but let me focus on just one today.
Imagine you want to buy a new car. You find the make and model you like. You're pretty certain about the color and the options. You take your choice for a test drive.
Then you get down to haggling over the price.
"Now what about the price?" you ask the salesman.
"Depends," he says. "How much money do you earn?"
"Why is that any of your business?" you respond.
"Because," he says, "the price of the car depends on your salary."
"Why?" you ask incredulously.
"Oh, yeah," he explains. "If you make $100,000 or more, you pay 50 percent more than someone who only earns, say, $50,000. We're now selling cars the progressive way. We use a graduated cost index – or GCI – to figure out what our customers pay."
I'm sure if this happened to you, you'd be pretty steamed. Imagine if the cost of goods was determined by a sliding scale based on what we earned. It would be outrageous, unthinkable, un-American.
Yet, why is it that we as Americans sit idly by while the federal government uses just such an unfair system of sliding scales to determine what our individual tax burdens are?
Isn't that just what the so-called "progressive" tax system is all about? Isn't that what the graduated income tax is?
In fact, the government's scam is even worse than my hypothetical. We each pay to the federal government according to what we earn. But we don't even necessarily get anything when we pay more. In fact, generally speaking, those who pay nothing or less get more under the Infernal Revenue Disservice plan.
Think about it. My hypothetical example is not so imaginative at all. Have you ever gone to the grocery store and watched the person in line ahead of you present food stamps as payment? In effect, his groceries are cheaper than yours because he earns less. You get to pay for your groceries and his – and you don't have any choice about it, not even about whether he buys groceries that are healthy for him and his family.
Until we dismantle – once and for all – the criminal tax code, more of this fraud and thievery will find its way into American life.
Why do we accept such a system as rational?
Why do we accept this as just?
Why do we accept this as legal?
Why do we accept this as moral?
Why do we accept this as inevitable?
Doesn't such a system clearly diminish our hard work? Doesn't it provide disincentives to make more money, to put capital at risk and provide jobs for others? How is any of that beneficial to society?
In other words, we accept irrational actions from the supposedly accountable government that we would never accept from private industry.
In fact, I'm sure there are laws against charging customers different prices for the same product. Yet, the government believes it has the right and the duty to charge us different amounts for goods and services we may or may not want, and to use force if necessary to extract those funds from us.
Come on! This is not the Soviet Union. It's the United States of America.
It's time for a change. It's time to de-Sovietize America!
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Post by Dave on Apr 15, 2008 19:43:30 GMT -5
I am thinking of moving this to current events ;D
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Post by Joe on Apr 15, 2008 21:12:36 GMT -5
Me too Dave.I was falling asleep reading that one...  |
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Post by chevellianrob on Apr 18, 2008 23:17:44 GMT -5
I don't think you can compare the price of a car to a tax?  ? It just doesn't make sense. So let's say we have a strait tax where everyone payed the same percent, Then the car would cost the same percent for everyone. so if you made $10,000 a year the car would cost $1,000, if you made 100,000 a year the car would cost $10,000 It's like comparing the air/fuel ratio of a gasoline engine to the price of a gallon of gas. It just doesn't make sense. p.s. uncle sam pretty much sucks all the time. |
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Although my ex is unhappy they're giving me hers too... ;D
