Poll on Taxes

[Jazz Spazz]

Maybe a tax on cheese?

Blasphemer!!


I shall have to neg rep you when I have spread some rep around.

or maybe the ability to pay with cheese?

Here are some recipes for Cheese Coins, including a Hanukkah version:




this would go well with Bean's ideas too!

And we could put folks to work baking cheese coins and perhaps make a dent in the unemployment numbers too!

I like the idea of paying my taxes with cheese, but I could see LogGrad being offended by the idea.

 

[Cope]

Considering that I pay 40% on my bonuses here at work (50% of my income if not more) and there isn't a damn thing I can do about it because its a Bonus vs. actual pay I voted no. I can claim 7 for my base pay but the monthly bonuses and the 3 to 6k I get monthly before its a kick in teh ***. No away around me paying 40% taxes on that ****.

 

[Scat]

Where's the option to raise everyone else's taxes but not mine?

 

[babe]

Where's the option to raise everyone else's taxes but not mine?

that one failed in ancient Grecian democracy. Democracy can only work so long as folks don't don't realize they've got the keys to the public treasury.

It's what we've been doing for quite a long time too.

 

[The-Joker]

Maybe they should make Tax hikes and such, open ballot propositions. Because it looks like the people of this board, who probably represent a wide variety of American sentiments... are more willing to get things done then Congress is.

 

[sirkickyass]

I will admit that I'm pleasantly surprised by the board. Faith in humanity restored today.

 

[Jazz Spazz]

I will admit that I'm pleasantly surprised by the board. Faith in humanity restored today.

I'm not jumping on that bandwagon so quickly.

So what if you raise taxes if the people spending that money do so improperly?
It won't do a bit of good. That's how we got in this mess in the first place.

Another interesting thought is that money problems are never rooted in money.
Those money problems are never solved by throwing more money at them.

 

[One Brow]

Considering that I pay 40% on my bonuses here at work (50% of my income if not more) and there isn't a damn thing I can do about it because its a Bonus vs. actual pay I voted no. I can claim 7 for my base pay but the monthly bonuses and the 3 to 6k I get monthly before its a kick in teh ***. No away around me paying 40% taxes on that ****.

If the 40% is an overpayment, you'll get the refund on that.

 

[LogGrad98]

If the 40% is an overpayment, you'll get the refund on that.

As another individual who makes a substantial percent of his pay in bonuses I can tell you that over the past 10 years of my career, it always is overpayment. I get really large tax returns. I would much rather have that money each month. Of course, it's not a bad thing getting a big return, we use the money to invest and pay bills. But I agree with Cope that this system needs a change.

 

[LogGrad98]

I'm not jumping on that bandwagon so quickly.

So what if you raise taxes if the people spending that money do so improperly?
It won't do a bit of good. That's how we got in this mess in the first place.

Another interesting thought is that money problems are never rooted in money.
Those money problems are never solved by throwing more money at them.

This.

In fact it is the attitude of people like that which scares me. Lets raise those taxes first. Get the money flowing. Oh yeah and maybe later we can look at trimming off some spending as long as it is under the other party's pork and not our own.

 

[babe]

This.

In fact it is the attitude of people like that which scares me. Lets raise those taxes first. Get the money flowing. Oh yeah and maybe later we can look at trimming off some spending as long as it is under the other party's pork and not our own.

I think my overall contributions in this forum sorta lay out my attitude already. After looking at our military adventurism proclivities, and our bailout idiocy, I consider it a public service to keep money outta the hands of our government. We need to do a thorough criminal investigation of our influence pedlers and the favors/contracts/decisions/policies they've bought, and charge them for it all.

I know we have a lot of people relying on entitlements of some kind, but I heatedly object to "Social Security" being called an "entitlement". Just the opposite. It's a Ponzi Scheme the government has been running, figuring on having enough chumps coming along to keep the ball rolling, while instead of managing the funds collected in the interest of the people whose money it is, have used it to fund other government activities, mostly in the interests of their lobbyists/major corporate support base. The social security system needs to be legitimized by managing it as a true retirement fund, with contributors' funds earning a direct return on their investment. The parts of "social security" that are essentially insurance contracts or welfare payments need to be put in another budget category and funded separately. Until that is done, "Social Security" is really just another income tax, and the obligations are really just "welfare" payments. I say don't give our politicians more money to spend, and make them learn to speak straight English and keep fiduciary accounts solvent.

 

[SaltyDawg]

I think my overall contributions in this forum sorta lay out my attitude already. After looking at our military adventurism proclivities, and our bailout idiocy, I consider it a public service to keep money outta the hands of our government. We need to do a thorough criminal investigation of our influence pedlers and the favors/contracts/decisions/policies they've bought, and charge them for it all.

I know we have a lot of people relying on entitlements of some kind, but I heatedly object to "Social Security" being called an "entitlement". Just the opposite. It's a Ponzi Scheme the government has been running, figuring on having enough chumps coming along to keep the ball rolling, while instead of managing the funds collected in the interest of the people whose money it is, have used it to fund other government activities, mostly in the interests of their lobbyists/major corporate support base. The social security system needs to be legitimized by managing it as a true retirement fund, with contributors' funds earning a direct return on their investment. The parts of "social security" that are essentially insurance contracts or welfare payments need to be put in another budget category and funded separately. Until that is done, "Social Security" is really just another income tax, and the obligations are really just "welfare" payments. I say don't give our politicians more money to spend, and make them learn to speak straight English and keep fiduciary accounts solvent.

I agree that Social Security shouldn't be funding other projects. But you are dead wrong about making it a real retirement plan and only paying everyone what their individual plan has earned.

That goes against the spirit of Social Security.

Where would everyone be right now after the market tanked? Where would they have been a few years ago when it tanked?

I say if you want a true retirement plan, start one. But that isn't what Social Security is intended to be.