taxes

[92ss satinsvoice]

anyone elts get a shitty return for the year?

[kimokalihi]

Best return to date actually. $475 back. I usually owe or get little back.

[beatersubi]

Know what the best part of paying taxes is?
Trick question. There's no good part.

[kimokalihi]

I saw a guy break down all the taxes we pay including gas taxes social security federal state sales etc and his figure was 62% of his earnings! I never thought of it like that. No wonder I don't have any money!

[Someperson]

we spend 25x more than the next three countries below us on military alone...... of course they tax the fuck out of us.... then theres political grafts and payoffs...

[beatersubi]

Not to mention foreign aid. I don't know why we're giving away so much money and we can't even fix our own budget.
Anyone else aware that we recently gave a handful of F16 fighter jets and hundreds of M1 Abrams tanks to Egypt? Muslim brotherhood-controlled Egypt.
The only solution I can see is term limits and a executive-appointed panel to set congress' salary and benefits.

[kimokalihi]

Yeah I saw that and aren't they against israel which is our ally? Or am I mistaken?

[Someperson]

i've lost track... on a brighter note..... 1800 back for state and federal

[kimokalihi]

Damn!

[FundamentalyConfused]

I'm expecting over 10k federal+state refund. Having 3 children to claim helps boost that up there!

Sorry didn't mean to kick you while you're down.

[kimokalihi]

Jesus christ. The tax system is messed up bad. Rewarding marriage and reproducing.

[Grayguy]

Me and the wife are getting just over $4k combined

[FundamentalyConfused]

I call it getting even with the IRS. They gave me shit returns for years until I got married and started claiming the wifes kids.

I only made 23k this year, figure that out. lol

[kimokalihi]

Yeah see I made $36k and got back $475. What's really messed up is anything over $36k gets taxed at 25% and then after like 120k it only goes to 28%.

[daveh]

Don't feel so bad, I paid over $4000 in January! I haven't gotten my 2012 paperwork yet, but I paid close to $30k last year! I hope to get $5k of that back though.

[kimokalihi]

You PAID 30k? Damn bill gates what's your gross?

[fireman2101]

I call it getting even with the IRS. They gave me shit returns for years until I got married and started claiming the wifes kids.

I only made 23k this year, figure that out. lol

Got 7 back this year all because of the wife and 2 kids.

[alexandermf]

Made 36k getting 4k back from state and federal, best I've ever had, usually get around 3 ish back

[MConte05]

Got $3k back this year, no wife or kids. Was only getting $300 back, but factor in mortgage deductions, closing costs, property taxes, losses in long term investments, etc. and got an extra $2700.

If you want a bigger return, then change the number of deductions in your paycheck to 0, but if you want a bigger paycheck, but a smaller return then change your deductions to 2.

Before you guys start complaining about high taxes.... remember that we are one of the LEAST taxed citizens in the world.

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing ... tional.cfm

Lots of other factors go into that, obviously. But it's food for thought.

[kimokalihi]

I already claim 0.

[Someperson]

I claim 0 made say 31.5k

[Legacy777]

All I can say is the government likes me

[beatersubi]

Jesus christ. The tax system is messed up bad. Rewarding marriage and reproducing.

Heck yes! Future taxpayers.

[cj91legss]

< Off the grid FTW!

[James614]

All I can say is the government likes me

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