TAXES

[Templar]

APRIL 15th IS THE LAST DAY TO FILE INCOME TAXES IN AMERICA.....TOMORROW THE GOVERNMENT TAKES ITS POUND OF FLESH.........UNLESS YOU ARE SO POOR THAT YOU HAD NO REAL INCOME OR YOU WERE SO RICH YOU COULD HIDE YOUR INCOME......OOPS........I GUESS THE MIDDLE CLASS GETS IT AGAIN

      YOUR SERVANT.........THE OVERTAXED TEMPLAR

[Nighthawk]

The "middle class" always "get's it", right in the you-know-where!   

[Pocketcoins]

I wish somebody would make up there mind what middle class is. It seem to me no matter what my income is I'm always put in the middle.

[Templar]

OVER THE YEARS I HAVE READ MANY STORIES OF POLLS TAKEN AND MOST PEOPLE SAID THEY WERE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS AS OPPOSED TO LOWWER MIDDLE CLASS............MOST OF THE TIME I THINK I AM UPPER LOWER CLASS........I AM PRETTY SURE I AM NOT LOWER HIGH CLASS......I GUESS MOST OF US WANT TO BE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GROUP......SO MAYBE I AM LOWER MIDDLE CLASS WITH UPPER CLASS DREAMS ON LOWER CLASS INCOME..........OF COURSE SOME OF MY FRIENDS SAY I HAVE NO CLASS AT ALL......BUT THAT IS A DIFFERENT STORY.........WELL I THINK I HAVE MADE MYSELF PERFECTLY CLEAR SO I BID YOU ALL HAPPY TAX DAY NO MATTER WHAT CLASS YOU ARE........

  YOUR FRIEND AND SERVANT.........THE TEMPLAR

[ElleKitty]

I'm pretty sure that I'm middle-middle class. o.o  Okay, possibly lower middle class, but at least we've pulled out of the poverty level we were in a few years ago.  (Thank you Toyota!)

[NoHope587]

I'm 99.9% certain I am lower class and don't care. As for Taxes it was a shock moving from the UK where I paid none due to seafarers exemption to paying Close to 30% of my income. The sad thing is no one understands the tax laws in the USA I ask several different tax "experts" every year about what I should be paying and I get different answers from all of them the lowest one with a guarantee gets my business..

[TwoShadows]

I am sooooooo low when I look up I still see dirt!

Taxes are the legal theft of your hard earned money, which is non-traceable by the average man, and to guarantee that the government finances thousands of pork barrel projects to make sure you can't trace it.
Foreign Aid is the legal transfer of the above mention theft to friends, family and political club members which the above mentioned taxpayers cannot trace or are totally unaware of. Could any of these funds possibly end up in off-shore accounts? They are so good at what they do the IRS cannot even manage the normal weekly income in any of its regional offices. They don't know where it went either!

[Paint Your Wagon]

Where I am going I ain't certain
Where I am going I don't know
All I know is that I am on my way

I was in the 65% marginal tax category for too long ( direct state taxes )
I dropped to the zero % tax category for 7 years
I could not maintain my standard of living without going higher ; so now I pay 12 % 
My taxes go to french speaking and legal or illigal imigrants
We are back to Dickinsonial times where they use children to commit crimes
not because they are so small they can enter anywhere but because they are
soo young they are not punished

[TwoShadows]

I would NEVER complain if everyone PAID their fair share but.........! The rich avoid it all with loopholes and the poor get more back each year than they have ever paid in? Seems to me the only ones getting screwed are the working class folks who are the REAL backbone of the world's economy! I could be mistaken though?

[Paint Your Wagon]

The family BO doubled their income last year to 5.5 million dollar
reports the flemish times
Does a president pay taxes ?
Link is in flemish and only to proof the story
http://www.tijd.be/nieuws/buitenland/Obama_verdubbelde_inkomen_in_2009.8903964-439.art

[TwoShadows]

They claim they do! Of course if I made a few million last year I would be honored to find the loopholes and protect my wealth while paying in a few bucks at the same time. I wonder why the rich does NOT want a national sales tax instead of income taxes?

[green18]

What was it that "Ben" said?  Oh yeah (to paraphrase) nothing is assured except death and taxes........