Black Day...

Jerry_15

I don't enjoy paying taxes, but I'd pay a little more, (and do ), if they could just spend it decently. In my business I have the luxury of not suffering fools and liars (well not for too long anyway, a few do slip through), we bought it; now we're paying for it. I do feel a lot safer now though. And flying is such a joy.

Mike T., Swampeast MO

Like many self-employed people I wait 'till the last minute for taxes.

51% of my income this year went to things over which I have little or no control--taxes, insurance and utilities. YIKES! Had to kiss the Vitodens again as without it, that percentage would have been even higher!

Al Letellier_9

black tuesday

I don't know about you, Mike, but with taxes and gas and insurance pressures, I've had enough. Hanging them up this summer. So tired of hearing "write yourself a bonus" or "buy a truck", and then give it all back anyway. Time to reduce O/H and make a living doing something that won't tear the old body apart. It's been fun and exciting and a good living, but enough is enough. Would love to just pay the tax and smile, and doing so means we made a profit, but........(Said Tuesday 'casue we get an extra day in New England...Happy Patriot's Day !!!!! )

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Jerry_15

That and a five will get you a double latte.

Jeff Lawrence_25

26 April 2006

That's 'the' day this year.

Think about it.....

[Deleted User]

The day

I started working for me & mine was mid-May in 2000. Seems things have gotten better. But, what do I know?

CHARLES_4

THE DAY

Tax freedom day? I thought that was last week. Either way, working 1/3 of the year JUST to pay the piper (piker?) is working too long. Yeah, we have more than anyone else, but the price of FREEDOM is getting a little steep. Question: What happens when we can't afford it any longer?
I think REAL tax reform would come about if/when EVERYONE had to write out a check for all their taxes on 4/15. No one misses money they never see. And they think think they're AHEAD when they get some of their own money back. Write that BIG check once a year and you see just how big the bite is.
Wait, someone's bringing me some aspirin. I'm feeling better. Back to your regularly scheduled rants...

Jeff Lawrence_24

That's it

Of course, that's what the 'hosts' on the talk radio say.

Tax Freedom Day

Anyone every hear of www.fairtax.org?

Brad White_57

You are deluding yourselves. April? May?

My Tax Freedom Day is July 4th. Like Mike T., I pay about 52% of my income to people other than myself. Put aside the Constitutionally permissible functions of government, that is about 40% too much, not to mention a form of slavery.

Not that I am in that high a tax bracket, but when you add in sales tax, state income tax, real estate taxes, local excise taxes, gasoline taxes (essentially re-taxing after tax income) it works out to about 52%...


When I discussed/debated this with a more tax-loving colleague, she replied (quoting Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.) that taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

Fine, said I. "I have paid taxes all of my working life.
When do I get my civilized society?"

Sorry for the rant...
Flat tax. Post card. Flat tax. Post card....

Mike T., Swampeast MO

What amazes me is that my income while quite low by most standards is actually somewhat above average for my area (poor) of the country! Property tax (house) was only $477 for a home that the insurance company required me to insure for $450K and that with the ground floor FAR from completion! Old neighborhood and local paper always says when "drive-by" reassessments are being done so I make sure that I keep all of the doors at the front of the house (main plus two pair of French doors) wide open. Won't be able to do that the next time as the front rooms will be done and filled with my finest woodworking. I just hope they didn't keep notes and decide to look through windows--or worse yet ever see my master bath...

Steamhead (in transit)

How many pay raises

have your Congresspersons and Senators voted themselves? They sure don't have to pay for it....

If you research and find yours have voted themselves yet another raise- vote them out!

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singh

how your tax dollars are spent

http://www.unitedforpeace.org/downloads/us.pdf

Less than 1/2 a penny out of every dollar you're taxed goes to energy conservation.

I don't mind paying taxes, I do mind how it's spent. Its called taxation without
representation.

Weezbo

Well, after taxes today i cam,e home to a 503 delivery

of fuel oil just over 1200American green favorite presidents.... good thing i turned the boiler off and let it constantly circulate all daaaaaaaaay long

Brad White_57

I thought

all you Alaskans got an annual dividend check and maybe, just maybe, free or discount oil? I mean it is all based on your state's inherent oil wealth, correct?

At least free caribou to eat, right?

Weezbo

dont feel bad its ok

this year i had a chance to deal with immgration whatta bad joke. any way learned that i was just a bit over poverty level ) Damm i am near dead Now!:) and i thought ;

'yup this year is better than last year',

for so many years now,... i felt like Rip Van WInkle when they told me that..sheesh. oh well narrymind the next life time may just be a jot longer than this ...if so i am going to be rich Then

Christian Egli_2

Tax time, T time

The fairtax has gotten some huge popular traction here in southwest Ohio. If it's still true elections go the way Ohio goes (oops), then there is good hope we'll see tax reform.

This year, Ohio has just changed its business taxing method to something closer to what the fairtax is. Still not quite there, but a step the good way towards reform.

The biggest attraction for me with the fairtax is its... fairness.

Right now, if you are a legitimate business, doing everything right with licenses and insurances and everything else, you get whacked by taxes (Inc corporations even get taxed twice), which of course have to pass on as inflated prices to the customer.

Opposite this, is the fly-by-night operator, who isn't afflicted by the same overhead costs, and can thus offer less expensive services. A big bonus to a home owner, big enough to eclipse the problems associated with possibly not doing everything right...

No one will ever figure out how to whack fly-by-night operatives the same way above-ground people are. It is the same delusion to believe criminals would naturally obey anti-crime laws.

So, what else is there to do?

Well, let every legitimate business operate the same way the shady ones do. Think of who has the advantage now. The overhead cost discrepancy is gone and competition is now mostly based on quality, now, the effort of getting licenses and such starts to pay off. There are many other problems besides tax, but that's a big one. And quality work for a lower price has got to be good for the homeowner too.

The fairtax, by capturing revenue from illegitimate commerce will be a big boon to the state, enough I hope that thoughts will be had about lowering tax rates... eventually...

Come on, you guys in Boston, isn't there some boat with some tea you should go do something about? Don't tell me you've all switched over to Starbucks coffee. Check to see if your local politicians are all on your side or just in your back pocket, they're sneaky.

big red_2

weezbo's $$ woes

hey billy bear, why don't you bill out roger for the last 3 houses and raise your rates so you aren't paying the contractor for the privelage of working?? Then.... don't hire that crack head tool thief scott agaian and agian and again and you would be money enough ahead to give your slaves raises.