pbase is pretty cool. I
pbase is pretty cool.
I found out today that I'm being audited... sorta. It's a long story, but the skinny goes something like this: I left old employer for new employer a couple years ago and old employer fucked up some of my tax papers such that it set me up to file an amended return when said papers were un-fucked however, the bloodsucking leeches at the IRS penalized the hell out of me... twice... immediately upon previously mentioned fuck up of ex-employer and started the vic, so the juice has been running for a year and I get a bill for just under three grand from uncle fuckin' sam this afternoon. Unscrupulous pigfuckers. I hate taxes. No, I feel I should correct that statement... I hate our tax system. Paying taxes isn't the issue. It's this fucked up scaled system of checks and balances where we let the government hold our money while they decided how much they're to keep and the laws are written to protect the undeserving and rape the incapable. I say yes to a flat tax. No details. No loopholes. No paperwork. No returns. Uncle Sam gets X% of your income. Period. If you make zero income, you don't pay taxes. If you make $100.23 a year, that bitch government of ours gets X% of $100.23. If you make $5 million a year, they get X% of $5 million. You don't get it back... you don't file a return... you don't get charged more than X% and you don't get charged less than X%... ever. EVER! What's fucking wrong with that? I think it would work great if the rich would stop whining about how they are treated unfairly and the poor would stop wanting something for nothing. What the fuck happened to the spirit of this country. Greedy bastards... all of us.
Even though my birthday isn't until the 13th, Erin Lynn bought me my birthday present. I'm speechless. Really. Yes, it's camera schwag. She's quite amazing.
Speaking of camera schwag... I don't have anything to put it on yet, but this lens makes my mouth water. Bajeezus! I could photograph the pores on a fleas balls with that in my repertoire... umm... if fleas had balls I mean. Err.. whatever. You get the idea.
Goodnight!
I found out today that I'm being audited... sorta. It's a long story, but the skinny goes something like this: I left old employer for new employer a couple years ago and old employer fucked up some of my tax papers such that it set me up to file an amended return when said papers were un-fucked however, the bloodsucking leeches at the IRS penalized the hell out of me... twice... immediately upon previously mentioned fuck up of ex-employer and started the vic, so the juice has been running for a year and I get a bill for just under three grand from uncle fuckin' sam this afternoon. Unscrupulous pigfuckers. I hate taxes. No, I feel I should correct that statement... I hate our tax system. Paying taxes isn't the issue. It's this fucked up scaled system of checks and balances where we let the government hold our money while they decided how much they're to keep and the laws are written to protect the undeserving and rape the incapable. I say yes to a flat tax. No details. No loopholes. No paperwork. No returns. Uncle Sam gets X% of your income. Period. If you make zero income, you don't pay taxes. If you make $100.23 a year, that bitch government of ours gets X% of $100.23. If you make $5 million a year, they get X% of $5 million. You don't get it back... you don't file a return... you don't get charged more than X% and you don't get charged less than X%... ever. EVER! What's fucking wrong with that? I think it would work great if the rich would stop whining about how they are treated unfairly and the poor would stop wanting something for nothing. What the fuck happened to the spirit of this country. Greedy bastards... all of us.
Even though my birthday isn't until the 13th, Erin Lynn bought me my birthday present. I'm speechless. Really. Yes, it's camera schwag. She's quite amazing.
Speaking of camera schwag... I don't have anything to put it on yet, but this lens makes my mouth water. Bajeezus! I could photograph the pores on a fleas balls with that in my repertoire... umm... if fleas had balls I mean. Err.. whatever. You get the idea.
Goodnight!
I agree! It’s *sort* of that way here, although they do make it a little complex. Basically, you get taxed nothing up to £4610, 22% up to £30,500 and 40% if you make over £30,500.
It’s pretty easy, but you do have to add in things like interest earned and so forth. There’s probably way more to it because there are still capital gains taxes, tax credits if you have kids and the like, but I don’t really understand it, so I don’t bother. Heh - probably pretty dangerous!
Lisa
The tax deal is a tough one for me. I am an idealist, and certainly no economist. The fella who works in the grocery store I just don’t believe deserves to have 4 times less disposable income than I do. That is what a flat tax would provide. Some people will have many things, some people will be so swamped with the mundanity of their subsistence living that they have no motivation to reflect, learn, and grow as people. This will keep society stratified, and there will always be an unspoken upper, middle, and lower class. The lines are just grey.
Communism doesn’t work in practice, but the waste we make under capitalism screams for a middle ground. Look at California. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3105425.stm
The way I see it, it is a difference of two ideals. The first being “we should be forced to cooperate”, the second “we should cooperate of our own free will”. The problem that I see is, given the reins – people do not cooperate. The only reliable thing people give money to reliably is organized religion, and that is utterly misguided. Yes, my view comes down to “people need to do what I want them to do, not what they want to do”, which is an antifreedom. I’m not down for giving up liberty as our individualism is what makes us human.
Middle ground. Socialism doesn’t work. Pure laissez faire lacks compassion and fosters little cooperation. Look around us – we need one another. I didn’t iron my clothes, the cleaners did. I didn’t build my camera, a technician did. So on ad infinitum. I’m all about them being able to have the same standard of life I do.
Definitely on the fence on it, I can see both sides.
And man, I gotta have the 80-200mm goodness….
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh1/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=164859&is=USA
Sad thing is it costs more than a lot of folks pay for their house in two months, especially outside of metropolitan areas. Wish we had a good heap of reality injected into our economy, it seems held together with duct tape.
Socialism does work, but not as a whole - only in small amounts. Switzerland is a very good example of this.
As for taxes, I could be happy with a flat tax. If only to piss off the IRS. Those incompetent bureaucrats are almost as bad as the INS. Ruined my credit report for years due to a mistake they made and then realized was wrong.
yeah, I think socialism could work pretty well, actually. We’ve not really seen a completely socialist system as far as I’m aware and to be honest, I’m not 100% sure what it would entail.
Many people think the UK is socialist because we have socialised medicine (which, despite what the naysayers say, works very well in my opinion). When you do it only part way, however, it breaks down.
Dentistry, for example, is offered on the national health service, but also privately. The problem there is that dental care is so stupidly expensive in the private sector that the vast majority of dentists won’t take NHS clients (why would you if you could make a fortune ripping people off - sorry, charging more?). Ordinary people have a really hard time affording £350 just for one filling, so there are huge waiting lists for the very few NHS dentists. This may explain, in part, why the British are known for their less-than-perfect teeth ;-)
Yes, I agree a flat tax would be much less of a headache. But then what all of those poor IRS leaches do for a living? ;)
For a long time I was a proponent of a national sales tax, instead of the income tax. But critics of that scheme say it would be a regressive tax with similar problems to what Michael said above about the flat tax. I’m not sure that’s true since life essentials such as food, clothing, and housing would be tax exempt. But I’m no economist. Food for thought.
The problem with that solution is most likely that it wouldn’t cover the cost of public services. But then, I’m definitely no economist. I can barely balance my chequebook.
too bad the 16th amendment is not legal!!!
you’d think after almost 80 years congress would get thier shit together, and we’ll all live happily ever after.
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