I Paid My taxes!

You are not going to retire some day? If not, then refuse the money they offer to pay you based on your contributions.

Sure. And you are the only one who who has to pay. I'd bet you are dishonest because of the character you display here.

If you don't like the system you have two choices:

- Fight it legally

- Move to another country and bitch there

But you are so damned stupid that it indicates that you paid a lot of Liquor tax too.

What a pussy.

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There are a few new tax deductions you may have missed.

Cat food

A junkyard-owning husband and wife routinely sprinkled cat food around the premises to tempt stray cats into hanging around. Their reason? The cats "took care of snakes and rats on the property, making the place safer for customers." Naturally, this attempted deduction did not pass unchallenged. But when the couple made their case that the cat food had been instrumental to keeping dangerous rodents away from their life-sustaining business, the IRS allowed the deduction to stand.

Ostrich depreciation

Businesses are used to depreciating standard equipment like computers, truck fleets and buildings. So, an ostrich farmer from Louisiana submitted a tax return that wrote off the depreciated value of his ostrich. Odd as it may sound, farmers are indeed allowed by the Internal Revenue Code to depreciate the value of their livestock provided they are being used for breeding (rather than producing food products for sale).

-Bill

The interesting point would be how he got all his pets Social Security numbers so he could claim them. Sounds like a BS artist to me. Of course, he'd be in good company in SED.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Several years ago, I knew a spanish fellow that would claim all of his pets as dependents. He got away with it for years. Last time I see him he was retired and hangs out at the local park all day in the summer time. I guess he never got caught. He used to laugh as he spoke about it, telling me how nice it move to live in America!

Jamie

Most likely he used what numbers that look like SS#'s, He's not the only one i knew that did this. Back then, (1975 +/- days) it took way too long to track these people down. Most of those that got caught were turned in. You must remember how the IRS worked back then, they were nothing like they are now when it comes to tracking numbers. Today's computers make it easy now to cross reference usage's of SS#'s as returns are being turned in.

I know for fact, that he did do it.

Jamie

Dumbass, that just means you had too little withheld. I do too, by about $5000 this year (down from almost $8K last year).

What a dumbass.

Christ almighty! And you call us whingeing pommies.

Just pay your taxes. You can afford it.

I am 120% with you on this!

So retired are freeloaders? Sheesh, get a life.

You're a goddamned idiot.

Why? Not liking the forced system doesn't equate to not wanting to at least get your money back.

That's right.

I would suggest that if you don't like freedom of speech that much *YOU* move to the other country. There are plenty that don't protect free speech.

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Roughly 1:1, but theoretically most of the SS tax is for SS, so most of the general needs have to be paid from income tax revenues. The numbers below are the US Treasury estimates(*) for FY2010.

• (The estimates should be very close--the numbers total actual receipts for all but the last month.)

Sorry about the caps in my last post. I was annoyed listening to the tax-the-rich demagoguery / rhetoric from Congress. The proposed increase / "tax cut for millionaires" they're decrying totals $35 billion a year.

The deficit is $1,650 billion. To pretend like that issue that has _any_ relevance to our current fiscal situation is simply misdirection, if not plain lying.

Total income tax revenue is about $885B. We'd have to nearly triple everyone's income taxes to cover our current spending.

We have a spending problem, not a taxation problem.

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Individual Income Taxes ............................. 884,776

Corporation Income Taxes ........................... 180,240

Social Insurance and Retirement Receipts: Employment and General Retirement (Off-Budget) .... 631,164 Employment and General Retirement (On-Budget) .... 184,203 Unemployment Insurance............................ 44,960 Other Retirement .................................... 4,440 ------- 864,767

Excise Taxes ..........................................70,057 Estate and Gift Taxes .................................18,922 Customs Duties ........................................23,461 Miscellaneous Receipts ................................90,682 ------- 203,122

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Yeah, that would have been my guess.

No problem, I can't really pay attention to the current 'silly' budget debate. There are a few people talking sense, but they are drowned out by the political silliness.

Hmm, I think we'll need some of both. But at least people are talking about it.

Hey, my State (NY) got the budget passed on time.... for like the first time in ten years!

George H.

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Hey, here's an idea. This year's estimated deficit is $1,650B. The R's are pushing for $60B in cuts, the D's are crying bloody murder. If we instead slashed spending $500B _per_year_ AND doubled everyone's income tax, that would almost balance Barack's budget. (That assumes interest rates stay the same. They won't.)

The "baseline" Democrats are arguing from now is the too-high Bush level, plus the stimulus package. They're calling anything less than stimulus-level spending "a cut." That's insane.

-- Cheers, James Arthur

"There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Please use in that order, repeat as necessary".

I believe there's some rule that anything that isn't an increase is a "cut," since as a politician you're allowed to assume that, by default, spending

Too bad no one is pushing for the "across-the-board cuts, let's worry about the specifics of which programs are worthy or not when we're not on the verge on bankruptcy" approach that I think both you and I agreed to as useful.

---Joel

I agree whole heartedly.

Ok, I'll pay those taxes with out complaint if you are willing to buy a new car for my wife.

Seeing a new $40k Darrango sitting in the yard just recently purchased by a kid I have living at home at 29 years old, paying 0, eating my food, sucking up my light bill is kind of bothering me at the moment.

Jamie..