taxes

[rebel]

When do you say enough? At what percentage do you say screw this, we aren't bailing out the world? I mean why work for 40, 30 or 20 % take home pay while others get the same benifits and do nothing but have children and hate you.

[crashdive123]

Sounds like somebody recently filed their taxes.

[BraggSurvivor]

Guests can not see images in the messages. Please register in the forum. Just eating popcorn and biting my tongue.

[beerrunner13]

I can't go there, already been told I am too political and hard line

[Excalibur]

this reminds me a thread I read earlier cant remember who posted it but I owe them a quarter cause I printed it off for the guys at work they should love it and ill be damned if I can find it but this is the screen shot of it would the actual owner of these lines please dont be offended but I laughed so hard I almost fell on my floor

A number of years ago, I owed the federal government $800 in taxes and I didn't send a check with the tax return. A few weeks later I got a call from them, now I had the money, that wasn't the point. The conversation went something like this:

Tax Guy: I'm calling to inquire about when you intend to pay your outstanding balance.

Me: I don't

Tax Guy: You have to!

Me: Why?

Tax Guy: Everyone has to pay taxes!

Me: Nope, not me.

Tax Guy (getting a little frantic): But, you have to, everyone has to pay their taxes.

Me: Why?

Tax Guy: Think about all the services the government provides for you (lists several)

Me: I don't use any of them

Tax Guy: You don't understand sir, everyone has to pay taxes!

Me: You don't understand, if I go to a store and lay out $800, I come out with a lot of stuff, you guys got nothin' for me.

Tax Guy: But EVERYONE has to pay their taxes. I pay my taxes!

Me: If everyone jumped off a bridge.....

Tax Guy: We'll garnishee your paychecks!

Me: yeah, I know, but I'm trying to get $800 worth of fun out of this, am I pissing you off

*Click* Tax guy hangs up

[Excalibur]

I have no claim to these lines but I loved them so much I had to share with the guys at work

[crashdive123]

Thank Trax for them.

[Excalibur]

Thanks Trax

[Rick]

I've posted this before. So I'll do it again. I don't mind paying taxes and Lord knows I pay my fair share. I also have one of the world's best military to protect me. I have great schools, good roads, a great hospital, an awesome library, an outstanding police, fire and EMT team to protect me. And on and on. You might not have all that where you live so I can only look at my little corner of the world. But I think it buys me a lot. I go so sleep at night with a full tummy and a reasonable expectation that I'll awake in the morning. I don't have to worry about malaria or any of several dozen terrible diseases that many parts of the world live with every day.

[nell67]

where I live Rick,the library is free for those who live in the "city",otherwise,you pay $30 for a library card....

[Rick]

I pay for the card as well. But the building is there and it's stocked with everything from Plato to Playdough.

[nell67]

Never had to pay for a Library card where I lived before,LOL it was FREE public Library!

[rebel]

Taxes provide for some nice things. Can you live without a public library or any of the other things listed? Was life bad before the taxation? If family and friends were your safety net wouldn't you treat people better? If you had to rely on your family to provide for your prison internment...well, once again relationships. Schooling used to be the parents responsibility. When the parents shelled out the bucks the emphasis for the child was to do their best ( relationship ). I think we've allowed the responsibilities of accountability from our government down to our personal lives to run out of control. There is a limit. I don't know what the collective limit is but, there seems to be a limit. My guess is, if we live to see that limit then we will see relationships for survival.

[nell67]

So how many states are there that parents do not have to pay for their children to go to school? We do in Indiana,but I have heard that we are only one of a handful or less that still have to pay.

[Alpine_Sapper]

So how many states are there that parents do not have to pay for their children to go to school? We do in Indiana,but I have heard that we are only one of a handful or less that still have to pay.

You mean, pay to send my kid to that thing they call a public school? They can kiss my a**. I'll pay for private school, but my taxes are supposed to pay for the public school system. It's not up to me to cough up extra funds if they can't manage what they're given.

This would be a no, as far as I am aware, for Texas.

[nell67]

Yes,we pay to send our kids to public school!About 20 years ago,they started to lottery here,and proceeds were supposed to help pay for education...and it hasn't changed for us,except each year,it gets higher to send the kids back to school.

We pay taxes here,that is supposed to pay for education,but we still pay for text book rental,locker fees,gym clothes and meals.

TO add insult to this,in our school system,they do not have enough text books in certain classes for all the students,but they STILL charge each student a book rental fee for those classes.

[crashdive123]

The dirty little secret about states using proceeds from their lotteries to pay for education is that for every dollar of lottery money pumped into education, a dollar of tax money is removed and spent someplace else.

[rebel]

Somehow this post got on two seperate areas. General subjects and General Survival Subjects. Some threads are crossing over and some are not.

[nell67]

I think Rick deleted one of the threads?

[Rick]

Sorry. I meant to move the thread to the General Chat section and Copied it by mistake. I then deleted the post in the General Survival Section. The Copy button and the Move button sit next to each other and I clicked the wrong one.