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Depends on the state. Most people I know take all the O T that is offered and O T which is time and a half so that equates to even more reason to take it.
Texas doesn't have a State Income tax, yet ... It's all federal wage deduction in tax. The more you earn, the more they tax.
Bring home on $1,000 earned was $800.00
Amen to that. Going to Washington to serve the people shouldn't be the best job of your life. Racked with fat pockets and book signings, and million dollar penthouses, 4 month's vacation every year...
There should be no politicians, only those that serve for a short while.
Texas doesn't have a State Income tax, yet ... It's all federal wage deduction in tax. The more you earn, the more they tax.
Bring home on $1,000 earned was $800.00
Corporations have to pay their stock holders too. If taxes go higher , it is passed onto the consumer.
Shipping goods is eating up profits of companies .. 5 miles a gallon for a tractor trailer and many have stops and travel coast to coast. Shipping everything will of course raise all costs of everything .
Cutting oil production is committing economic suicide and the people are the ones getting the shaft. Not the corporations, not the stock holders yet. That will come in time when buying power dwindles as time passes and each month the burden grows . If things don't change, we will see a depression.
Communist fosters this behavior. The Communist government tells everyone to turn in their neighbor if they misspeak or harbors resentment against their government. .
Yes, this is true in communist countries. Now give me just one example of that happening in the US. Has our government told us to turn in our neighbor if he “misspeaks”? Will you be put in prison if you harbor resentment against the government? Obviously not, or half the people on this forum would be in jail.
The rest of your post is just more of the same, off the wall paranoia.
And if you're like most success stories. 120 hour work weeks, stamping out your competition, disregarding family and friends etc, you will be judged by those whom you're competing with and if they are either going to accept you or stamp you out.
Fact is that most of us don't have what it takes to become producers.
You aren't judged by those you compete with. You either outrun them or you don't.
Your description is sort of on track but it's a little too dramatic. It's not that binary. There is plenty of good rewarding space to be found somewhere below the brilliant all-consumed one dimensional sociopath with their sights set on the top of Mount Olympus.
Texas doesn't have a State Income tax, yet ... It's all federal wage deduction in tax. The more you earn, the more they tax.
Bring home on $1,000 earned was $800.00
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Originally Posted by Taratova
Corporations have to pay their stock holders too. If taxes go higher , it is passed onto the consumer.
Shipping goods is eating up profits of companies .. 5 miles a gallon for a tractor trailer and many have stops and travel coast to coast. Shipping everything will of course raise all costs of everything .
Cutting oil production is committing economic suicide and the people are the ones getting the shaft. Not the corporations, not the stock holders yet. That will come in time when buying power dwindles as time passes and each month the burden grows . If things don't change, we will see a depression.
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Originally Posted by Taratova
Corporations have to pay their stock holders too. If taxes go higher , it is passed onto the consumer.
The government subsidize Corporations plus they also hire accountants to sift through the tax code, so as to reduce their tax liability.
That pay was for 2 weeks, which means that was $400.00 I missed off of OT in one month's time --- tell me what that $400.00 would look like in the market place, rather than sitting with the IRS ... ?
Yes, this is true in communist countries. Now give me just one example of that happening in the US. Has our government told us to turn in our neighbor if he “misspeaks”? Will you be put in prison if you harbor resentment against the government? Obviously not, or half the people on this forum would be in jail.
The rest of your post is just more of the same, off the wall paranoia.
We saw how supporting a sitting president brought the wrath of the FBI onto them. Plus a 3 year witch hunt documented with lies, and using the FISA courts illegally .
We have government entities going after parents and labeling them domestic terrorists. Yes, they are being tagged.
Yes, Neighbors turn neighbors in for political reasons.. for flying a flag no less.
By himself he's not the blame, you know that right. It took 80 years of Congress to get us here.
The current King is practically an inanimate puppet.
But yes, we've been heading to this end for a long, long time.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."
- Alexander Fraser Tytler
(Later paraphrased by Benjamin Franklin)
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