Tax cuts

Why dont they let us keep the money in the first place? The government spent 7 million dollars just sending us our money. Gah bearucarcy!

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Originally Posted by Strike For The South

Why dont they let us keep the money in the first place?

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Because the bureaucracy needs the money to educate American college kids. :book:

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Originally Posted by Strike For The South

Why dont they let us keep the money in the first place? The government spent 7 million dollars just sending us our money. Gah bearucarcy!

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Yep what a waste of 7 Million, they should have just kept it to spend on something worthwhile! :idea2:

Tarxess.

What percentage is $7 million?

But yes, the more complex a tax code, the more costly it is to enforce and more difficult to follow. We in the UK have the most complex in the world thanks to Gordon Brown. Even companies are leaving.

~:smoking:

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Originally Posted by Strike For The South

Why dont they let us keep the money in the first place?

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Funny that you say that.

With the crazy tax rates in Belgium , I often ask myself the question: why don't they just take our salaries in the first place and give us some coupons or tickets for food, oil, gas, water, electricity, etc each month instead?

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Originally Posted by Andres

Funny that you say that.

With the crazy tax rates in Belgium , I often ask myself the question: why don't they just take our salaries in the first place and give us some coupons or tickets for food, oil, gas, water, electricity, etc each month instead?

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Brilliant idea! I just copy-pasted that and send it to my representatives in the European Parliament!

Food coupons for my Flemish friends while I feast on their hard-earned money. :2thumbsup:



Wait..I'm too late. The Walloons got there before me. :smash:

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Originally Posted by Andres

Funny that you say that.

With the crazy tax rates in Belgium , I often ask myself the question: why don't they just take our salaries in the first place and give us some coupons or tickets for food, oil, gas, water, electricity, etc each month instead?

:wall: :bigcry:

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Be careful what you wish for...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

you just might get it.

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Originally Posted by rory_20_uk

What percentage is $7 million?

But yes, the more complex a tax code, the more costly it is to enforce and more difficult to follow. We in the UK have the most complex in the world thanks to Gordon Brown. Even companies are leaving.

~:smoking:

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I know isn't it great?

When I'm finished with 5 years of accounting and 3 years of law I will be a god. You know why? I will understand/know the tax code.

I'm actually considering working for the IRS. Being an accountant with a firearm sounds cool.

:inquisitive:

Um, not to the people who pay taxes it doesn't.

I think the best response is a Dave Barry column:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Pound of Flesh Here, Pound of Flesh There,
First thing you know You got Two Pounds of Flesh
by Dave Barry

Income-Tax Time is here again, and I'm sure that the No. 1 question on the
mind of the anxious taxpayers is: Do we have a new Internal Revenue Service
commissioner named "Fred"?
I am pleased to report that yes, we do. In fact, if you look on page 2 of
your IRS Form 1040 Instruction Booklet Written By Nuclear Physicists For
Nuclear Physicists, you'll find a nice letter from Commissioner Fred, in which
he states, on behalf of all the fine men and women and attack dogs down at the
IRS: "Let us know if we can do more."
I know I speak for taxpayers everywhere when I say: "NO! Really, Fred!
You've done enough!" I am thinking of such helpful IRS innovations as the
Wrong Answer Hotline, wherein, if you're having trouble understanding a
section of the IRS Secret Tax Code, all you have to do is call the IRS
Taxpayer Assistance Program, and in a matter of seconds, thanks to
computerized electronics, you are placed on hold for several hours before
finally being connected to trained IRS personnel dispensing tax advice that is
statistically no more likely to be correct than if you asked Buster the Wonder
Horse to indicate the answer by stomping it in the dirt.
Ha ha! Speaking as a married person filing jointly, let me stress that I
am JUST KIDDING here, because I know that the folks at IRS have a terrific
sense of humor. Down at headquarters, they often pass the time while waiting
for their cattle prods to recharge by sending hilarious tax-related jokes to
each other in triplicate on IRS Humorous Anecdote Form 1092-376-SNORT.
IRS HUMOR EXAMPLE A: " A lawyer, a doctor and a priest were marooned on a
desert island. So we confiscated their homes."
IRS HUMOR EXAMPLE B: "What do you get when you cross Zsa Zsa Gabor and a
kangaroo?" "I don't know, but let's confiscate it's home."
What a wacky bunch of personnel! But all kidding aside, it's very
important that taxpayers be aware of recent mutations in the tax law. For
example, this year everybody connected with the savings and loan industry gets
a free boat. Also, there are strict new regulations concerning how taxpayers
should cheat. "If a taxpayer wishes to deduct an imaginary business expense,"
states the IRS instruction booklet, "then he or she MUST create a pretend
financial record by clumsily altering a receipt from an actual transaction
such as the rental of the videotape 'Big Nostril Mamas.'"
When preparing your return, you should be sure to avoid common mistakes.
The two most common taxpayer mistakes, states the IRS booklet, are (1)
"failure to include a current address," and (2) "failure to be a large
industry that gives humongous contributions to key tax-law-writing
congresspersons."
All of us, at one time or another, have been guilty of these mistakes, but
I'm sure that this year we'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as
citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. Also, we know
our government cannot serve us unless it gets hold of our money, which it
needs for popular federal programs such as the $421,000 fax machine. I am not
making this program up. I found out about it from alert readers Trish Baez
and Rick Haan, who faxed me an article by Mark Thompson of Knight-Ridder
newspapers concerning a U.S. Air Force contract to buy 173 fax machines from
Litton Industries for $73 million, or about $421,000 per machine. Just the
PAPER for this machine costs $100 a roll.
If you're wondering how come, when ordinary civilian fax machines can be
bought for a few hundred dollars, the Air Force needs one that costs as much
as four suburban homes, then you are a bonehead. Clearly, as any taxpayer can
tell you, the Air Force needs a special kind of fax machine, a COMBAT fax
machine. The article quotes an Air Force spokesperson as making the following
statement about it:
"You can drag this through the mud, drop it off the end of a pickup truck,
run it in a rainstorm, and operate it at 30 below zero."
The spokesperson also said (I still am not making this up): "I was looking
at a picture of a squirrel it produced this morning, and if you wanted to sit
there long enough you could count the hairs on the squirrel."
The questions that probably come to your mind are:
1. The Air Force is using a $421,000 fax machine to send pictures of
squirrels?
2. Are these ENEMY squirrels?
3. Or does the combat fax just start spontaneously generating animal
pictures after you drop it off the end of a pickup truck?
The answers are: None of your business. You're a taxpayer, and your
business is to send in money, and if the Air Force wants a special combat fax
machine, or a whole combat OFFICE with combat staplers and combat potted
plants and combat Muzak systems capable of playing Barry Manilow at 45 degrees
below zero, then it will be your pleasure to pay for them. Because this is
America, and - call me sentimental, but this is how I feel - there is
something extremely appealing about the concept of Barry Manilow at 45 degrees
below zero.

That's hilarious CR :laugh4:

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Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

Wait..I'm too late. The Walloons got there before me. :smash:

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You're sooo evil Louis ~:mecry:

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https://i156.photobucket.com/albums/...ng/Daerden.jpg
Walloon minister of sports, Michel Daerden.

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Well, at least it's good to know that the money is well spent...

Very well spent...

Daerden's trip to Beijing only costed Belgian taxpayers a humble 48.000,00 euros.

:mean:

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You're sooo evil Louis ~:mecry:

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I'm experimenting with my posting style again. ~;)
I can't make the same posts 4000 times in a row. Boring both for me and the regular Backroom visitors. From now on, mean and evil posts by Louis. Biting sarcasm to lay bare hidden truths and expose unspoken taboos. http://smileys.sur-la-toile.com/repo...9mons/0002.gif

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Well, at least it's good to know that the money is well spent...

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Classic! :laugh4:

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Originally Posted by Kush

I know isn't it great?

When I'm finished with 5 years of accounting and 3 years of law I will be a god. You know why? I will understand/know the tax code.

I'm actually considering working for the IRS. Being an accountant with a firearm sounds cool.

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Join the FBI they hire a lot of accountants in the past

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Originally Posted by Andres

Funny that you say that.

With the crazy tax rates in Belgium , I often ask myself the question: why don't they just take our salaries in the first place and give us some coupons or tickets for food, oil, gas, water, electricity, etc each month instead?

:wall: :bigcry:

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Australia was like that a few years ago, just under 50% for the highest income bracket.

In my limited knowledge of Australia's tax system, compared to what you guys are saying, it seems ours is not very complicated. We pay the tax, then we can claim some back for donating to charity and recouping our losses.

:shrug: Then again I am only 17 :laugh4:

I Hate the IRS. There's no law that requires US citizens to pay income tax. The 16th Amendment was never properly ratified. The IRS is not part of the government, it's a privately run corporation working FOR the government. That's why its the Internal revenue SERVICE and not the Internal Revenue AGENCY. GAH! i say. GAH! Buearacracy!!!:gah2::gah2::gah2::gah2::gah2::gah2: :gah2:~:pissed:

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Originally Posted by Strike For The South

Why dont they let us keep the money in the first place? The government spent 7 million dollars just sending us our money. Gah bearucarcy!

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The US Postal Service... thanks you. :)

Could be worse, here 11 organisations with over 300 people eating my money were needed to learn 50 pieces of scootertrash how to do wheelies, being able to do stunts would greatly improve their convidence when robbing grannies nothing at all they were busy after all doing wheelies on public roads. Millions, yes actually millions of euro´s, multivultures aren´t cheap, of euro´s went into it, the only good news is that one killed himselve. We feel we pay half of our money to these useless gits, governherds feel we are allowed to keep money to spend it on heavily taxed products, their money after all and we better be grateful. Governments should´s be able to tax us at all it´s legalised theft nothing more, everything that needs to be done we can do better anyway.

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Originally Posted by AlexanderSextus

I Hate the IRS. There's no law that requires US citizens to pay income tax. The 16th Amendment was never properly ratified. The IRS is not part of the government, it's a privately run corporation working FOR the government. That's why its the Internal revenue SERVICE and not the Internal Revenue AGENCY. GAH! i say. GAH! Buearacracy!!!:gah2::gah2::gah2::gah2::gah2::gah2: :gah2:~:pissed:

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VOTE RON PAUL!