Damn taxes...

[Al B. Sure!]

I got my first paycheck from mcdonald's today. i got hired on the last day of a pay period so I only got a single day's pay which was good for me to get things in perspective (8 hours rather than getting lost in a mess of 40+ hours)... also, all my previous jobs were under the table so i never had to deal with taxes before...

and damn... my raw pay is 47.15 but after 7.03 in taxes, i'm down to 40.12...

thank you, democrats for taking my 7 dollars away (an hour and a half of work! all useless!)... 15% of the check right there...

[Asher]

I get dinged about $250 every 2 weeks now. But I get it all back in March 2004 in a refund, even though I need it now and not then.

[Odin]

You don't like taxes, then get off the street.

[Shi Huangdi]

I'll save my liberal friends the effort on this one.

Ya, damn government, and it's taxes! Who needs roads, schools, jails, and national defenese! Always screwing us over, that sure as hell ain't worth 7 dollars!

[Dinner]

Heck Albert, you're going to get 90%+ of your taxes back at the end of the year. If you're able to fanagle a few deductions then you might even make money off of the tax man but people like me get hosed. I don't make enough to where the tax bite doesn't matter but just enough so that the tax man can take it away.

[Al B. Sure!]

i'm just saying... think about it... of 8 hours of working, a full hour and a half is gone in taxes... don't that sound like quite a bit much? 1.5 out of 8 hours?

[Dinner]

1.5/8 isn't so bad especially since you're going to get most of it back at the end of the year when you file.

[Al B. Sure!]

i dont know... i got bills to pay...

its funny though how there was this dealer right outside the mcdonalds waiting for us to get off cause he knew it was our payday... asking us if we wanted some killer weed... i mean it was like damn we aint even cash the checks yet... it is messed up though that at least two of them probably did buy some... thats a bit off their pay-check already

[Dis]

you know I was watching meet the press again last night, and republicans went on again how the poor don't pay taxes.

How can they not pay taxes, but I do? My yearly wages are low- and would be considered poor- why am I paying taxes, when supposedly other people are not?

I want to find out how to get out of paying taxes dammit! Taxes are for the rich

[Al B. Sure!]

but anyway i dont know... all that **** like welfare, i got no use for it... roads... what do i care? i dont got a car... police... the cops are more likely to be messing with me than protecting me...

i'm not seeing too much good coming from these taxes...

[monkspider]

I actually agree with you Alb, an hour of pay can be a huge thing when you are struggling to make ends meet. That's why I support either a more progressive tax model, or, ideally, libertarian-based communism.

Here's a cheat code for you, when you are filling out those tax forms, always claim head of household for an additional tax bonus.

[Al B. Sure!]

what republicans are saying the poor don't pay taxes? i dont see how anyone could say this nor what the political point would be to say this... aint it better for the anti-tax republicans to say that they are going to take off the burden of taxes for the poor?

although poor might mean unemployed and welfare mothers and what not... anyone with a job i consider lower middle class.

[Dis]

Originally posted by monkspider
I actually agree with you Alb, an hour of pay can be a huge thing when you are struggling to make ends meet. That's why I support either a more progressive tax model, or, ideally, libertarian-based communism.

Here's a cheat code for you, when you are filling out those tax forms, always claim head of household for an additional tax bonus.

you can't legally claim head of household can you?

[Al B. Sure!]

Monkspider:

I will be the head of the household in a month but a household of just me do that count? or will i have to have a family for that?

[monkspider]

Well, I always claim it, if nothing else, as a metaphorical, symbolic household head.

I'm not actually sure of all the legal technicalities of it all, but I am living with the fiance, so maybe I actually could anyway. And if you are head of your own household, well, that is good enough for me.