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Troy's not even attacking expenditures but their tracking.
No, he's attacking the fascist mentality that all one's earnings belong to the government and what they allow one to keep is a government "expenditure."
Really? How owned do you have to be to buy into fascism?
This reminds me of when I hear all of these liberals constantly talk about "writing things off". I have to laugh. They tell me how foolish I am to have my house paid off. While they pay $10,000 a year in interest payments. They then proceed to tell me how I don't understand because they, "write it off". They claim, "I'm not taking advantage of all of the tax benefits the government is giving out". I try to tell them they're not giving out anything because they are only getting back the percentage of the tax bracket they fall into.
So for example, if they fall into a 20% tax bracket, they're only going to get back $2,000 of the $10,000 they paid. No matter how they cut it, they're still out $8,000 that I'm not. Their "write off" cost them $8K, period. They don't accept it and argue with me.
I frequently have that same argument with liberals. They just don't understand how to manage money.
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I then tell these liberal geniuses I'll make the same deal the government gives them. You pay me $10K over the course of the year. Any way you choose. Just so by December 31st you've given me $10,000. Then, by the following April 15th, I'll give you $2,000 back, and keep the remaining $8K for myself. Then you can run up and down the street, telling everyone who will listen, how badly you screwed me. And they talk about how we don't understand the tax code, all the while believing the bank is giving out free money.
"This exam, given in 23 countries, assessed the thinking abilities and workplace skills of adults. It focused on literacy, math and technological problem-solving. The goal was to figure out how prepared people are to work in a complex, modern society.
And U.S. millennials performed horribly.
...But surely America’s brightest were on top?
Nope. U.S. millennials with master’s degrees and doctorates did better than their peers in only three countries, Ireland, Poland and Spain.
...The ETS study noted that a decade ago the skill level of American adults was judged mediocre. “Now it is below even that.” So Millennials are falling even further behind."
Smart is useless when you are poor and have no money to invest.
That's where thinking skills come into play. One can be book smart but if one has no critical thinking skills, being book smart quickly disadvantages one.
The fact of the matter is in my 63 years of living, the only people I have heard put forth such foolish arguments were in fact LIBERALS. So it has everything to do with it. It's not my fault they're full of crap. It's not as if I went out and solicited them. They were just doing what comes perfectly natural for them.
So you're first response to anything you hate or disagree with is to call it "liberal"..and you're 63 years old? I think that's a cause for some self evaluation.
"Like the frightened baby chipmunk, you are scared by anything that is different"- Jean Girard, French intellectual.
" *Individual income tax rates for the lowest and second lowest quintiles are negative and are netted against the payroll tax rate. A quintile is one fifth of the population."
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