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How did the nobility convince the peasants to go to bat for them in the income tax discussion?
You know, I spent around the last decade in tax. At first, with small time tax work in CPA firms as a student, to international CPA firms, to eventually pouring over the code in the corporate side for some of the largest corporations in the world. I still don’t know what these secret loopholes are! Is it trumps infamous “tax depreciation?!?”.
But you know, I’d love CD users to explain these gosh darn loopholes to me so I can impress my big boss man VP and our corporate masters.
I wanna peice of the pie you know?
Hell since more than a third of the IRS is 55 or older, I could come in and skyrocket to GS 12 when I uncover and close down these evil tax payer schemes. Get my old pension locked up.
How did the nobility convince the peasants to go to bat for them in the income tax discussion?
I started poor. I didn't stay that way. My sister started the same. She chose a path that she knows she will always remain poor. She's smart. She understands the graduated income tax rates. Why would she be mad about this?
So you have poor, and you have trash. The two are not the same. How much more housing would be available for the poor if we didn't attempt to house EVERYONE? How many lifestyles would change if there were standards to still be maintained and simply being poor was the qualifier?
You've all done it. Walked into a poor person's home that is tidy, modest but well kept. Walked into a poor person's home that is squalor and an epitome to bad decision making on a continuous basis. I have ADD. Personally I hate other people with ADD that blame everything on the condition. These mofos tend to be the loudest about it as well. It makes it harder for people like me.
Everyone qualifies for income tax. But if 40% of the people are dropping their EIC at the liquor store or corner...and making a mess of things in the process....Maybe even someone that receives it is like....not this isn't working.
My sister called me after the last local election. She said, you know....I heard them keep saying all this stuff would be free for people like me....but I didn't like the definition of people like me. I also didn't hear anyone say how it would be paid for. I knew it wouldn't work. I voted against it.
Are you super rich or are you a fool?
One is a fool if one supports the policies designed for the rich (like tax loopholes that allow them to pay less taxes than a lower middle or middle class person) yet don't reap any of their benefits.
"OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.
While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. Some of us are investment managers who earn billions from our daily labors but are allowed to classify our income as “carried interest,” thereby getting a bargain 15 percent tax rate. Others own stock index futures for 10 minutes and have 60 percent of their gain taxed at 15 percent, as if they’d been long-term investors.
What I paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable income — and that’s actually a lower percentage than was paid by any of the other 20 people in our office. Their tax burdens ranged from 33 percent to 41 percent and averaged 36 percent."
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