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Posted: 4/19/2024 5:45:52 PM EDT
[Last Edit: FDC]
[#1]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HDLS: Retired .mil This. The taxpayers write my retirement check. Of course I'm also a taxpayer so I guess I'm paying myself partly. |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 5:46:09 PM EDT
[#2]
Nearly 50/50.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 7:06:22 PM EDT
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This is absurd. The government spends 6 times the amount of money on Social Security and Medicaid than they do on the entire defense budget, or on the entire federal retirement system, and to top it all off, these are the only people who ever actually did anything for the government.
You want to talk about taxpayer burden, look at all the people collecting SSI who never paid into the system. All of the welfare. The healthcare for low income people. A good percentage of them get more money back in taxes than they pay in a year. They've never done anything except cost the government money. Nowhere in the constitution does it say that the government is under any obligation whatsoever to take care of anyone except their own. |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 7:12:21 PM EDT
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Municipal worker for 38 years , retired . Pension plus SS .
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AR, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 7:12:51 PM EDT
[Last Edit: IronColon]
[#5]
Taxpayers no.
Property Owners Association dues payers yes. 
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Posted: 4/19/2024 7:15:03 PM EDT
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Contractor. If your boat sinks the folks I support will come get you.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 7:30:52 PM EDT
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Social Security. Get back in to work. It ain’t gonna fund itself….
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Posted: 4/19/2024 7:35:31 PM EDT
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They sure do, God bless those magnificent bastards.
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 7:41:10 PM EDT
[#9]
Yep. 31 years in law-enforcement next spring when I retire (if I actually decide to go out on my preprogrammed date that I have in my head right now ). 5 local, 26 federal and a bunch of other time aging back to when I was a 17-year-old in the military.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 7:43:11 PM EDT
[Last Edit: eurotrash]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Stretchman: This is absurd. The government spends 6 times the amount of money on Social Security and Medicaid than they do on the entire defense budget, or on the entire federal retirement system, and to top it all off, these are the only people who ever actually did anything for the government. You want to talk about taxpayer burden, look at all the people collecting SSI who never paid into the system. All of the welfare. The healthcare for low income people. A good percentage of them get more money back in taxes than they pay in a year. They've never done anything except cost the government money. Nowhere in the constitution does it say that the government is under any obligation whatsoever to take care of anyone except their own. I know somebody from a Discord group, a young veteran, who owns a company that provides bullshit tech services to the Space Force. He brags about how you just need to promise a solution and they’ll throw money at you. He hates the US and looks forward to score a big contract so he can sell the company and move to Germany. He won’t share the details, but by his own admission, he’s totally screwing the Space Force and intends to sell the company and renounce his citizenship before anyone notices. Another guy takes pride in shutting down oil and coal plants. All government funded. He is from Pakistan. Pays his taxes. Doesn’t hate the US but is indifferent and intends to take his wealth to Asia when the green subsidies dry up. The federal government needs to be run more like a business. When losses are high, you make cuts everywhere across the board. |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 8:16:34 PM EDT
[Last Edit: GutWrench]
[#11]
Private sector, self employed until I was 35 years old. Went to work for local gov to try and have a positive impact on my community. Stayed for the insurance benefits and the pension.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 8:16:59 PM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FuriousYachtsman: Ewww, gross. No. Monica |
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MS, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 8:19:25 PM EDT
[Last Edit: ExFed1811]
[#13]
Yes. 100 per cent of my retirement. Thank you.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 8:22:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FDC: This. The taxpayers write my retirement check. Of course I'm also a taxpayer so I guess I'm paying myself partly. Thats a valid point. I pay a bunch of taxes. So I help write my own “check”. Guess what GD……Im have dental insurance and am going to collect a fat ass pension! Probably going to move to PA, so it doesn’t get taxed!!! 
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Posted: 4/19/2024 8:25:50 PM EDT
[#15]
Quite the opposite.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 8:30:17 PM EDT
[#16]
Army retirement.
VA Disability (30%). Federal civil service retirement. Social Security. I thank you every April 15th. |
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NC, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 8:31:28 PM EDT
[#17]
Yeah but im also a taxpayer so i thank none of you
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Posted: 4/19/2024 8:32:10 PM EDT
[#18]
Self employed, and I like it that way.
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USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:07:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By USAF-K9: I have been on the 'taxpayer's teet' since 1982. Active duty military 22 years, state government 7 years, and federal government 12 years. I have no guilt. The taxpayer can rest assured they got their money's worth from my labors. I will live the rest of my life with physical pain and emotional scars from the things I have done and seen in their service. 41 years, you sir need to retire and enjoy! 
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:13:45 PM EDT
[#20]
About 33% of my income comes from tax money, being in the National Guard. The rest I make in the private sector.
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MD, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:51:18 PM EDT
[#21]
USACE GS13 Structural engineer
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Posted: 4/19/2024 9:52:48 PM EDT
[#22]
U R gonna pay me for life.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:01:25 PM EDT
[#23]
Nope, not part of the problem.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:15:50 PM EDT
[#24]
 yet another GD dead horse to kick |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:25:05 PM EDT
[Last Edit: pr24guy]
[#25]
Yes sir. I'm 58 and between Federal and State I have been collecting for 40 years.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:38:44 PM EDT
[#26]
We get plenty of .GOV work.
More private sector work than anything else, but yes, depending on the time of year we might get about half of our work doing .GOV stuff. There was this time we had a contract for some FBI office. Kept getting delays and more delays. Talking about several months here of waiting.....Eventually told to drop the job.  Should have seen all the paperwork we had on it. 
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:39:32 PM EDT
[#27]
Sometimes
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:43:58 PM EDT
[#28]
Kind of. I work for a multilateral development bank; our capital budget comes from a variety of sources which do include the U.S. Government - but which also include many other countries as well.
So basically I'm mooching off the citizens of nearly every developed nation.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:47:50 PM EDT
[#29]
Used to. My pension is primarily funded by returns on investments in the private sector, not a continuous flow of cash from the taxpayer. Well, at least until the rinos in the Oklahoma state legislature raid the pension fund here soon to redistribute the excess funds we have built up to give away to their political supporters at which time hundreds of millions will flow out of the system and we’ll be below the more than fully funded liability we are at now. Any shortages will then fall on the taxpayers because of the shitheads they elected.
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AK, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:52:33 PM EDT
[#30]
100% P&T FTW!
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:54:48 PM EDT
[#31]
Yep and now, they're paying for my retirement.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:57:10 PM EDT
[#32]
Half the time…
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Posted: 4/19/2024 10:57:25 PM EDT
[#33]
The taxpayers pay my salary and I’m in a union, I’m also a super conservative capitalist that thinks we need a smaller .gov (as long as it doesn’t impact me).
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:24:16 PM EDT
[Last Edit: eurotrash]
[#34]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Alex_F: yet another GD dead horse to kick Find the thread where someone asked the same question. I’ll wait. 
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:30:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SiVisPacem: Yes, but no. I am a professional tax preparer for one of the largest tax prep firms in the country. So, while I work for a private employer, it's people filing their taxes who put a roof over my head. What he said, only my part at my company is about helping our clients automate moving financial data more efficiently, accurately, and cheaply so they can do their taxes is less time for less money. Even after paying us. So if Ron Paul's taxes on a postcard ever became a thing, I'd probably still have a job, but it'd get a lot more challenging. Don't fret though, the rest of the world's governments are trying via Pillars I and II to find your cash, wherever you stash it. Lol, so much fruitful human endeavor is completely wasted because of the tax systems around the world. |
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NY, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:31:25 PM EDT
[#36]
Social Security sends me MY MONEY.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:33:11 PM EDT
[#37]
I teach school so yes
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:34:53 PM EDT
[#38]
No, I am a farmer. I drive my F-350 King Ranch to the mailbox to get my money. The money comes from the mailbox just like food comes from the grocery store.
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IL, USA
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:38:51 PM EDT
[#39]
Not really.
I'm sure there are some state and government contracts, but the bulk is private business. |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:42:21 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By The_Like_Button: We do .gov contracts, but don't rely on them to stay open. |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:45:08 PM EDT
[#41]
Hahaha. No. I earn this mofo, then I give the man his cut.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:46:22 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RIP-Yataski: You'd be hard pressed to find a guy that doesn't have .gov anywhere up his wage ladder...  No. Just no. |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:46:29 PM EDT
[#43]
It feels like I write the fucking government's paycheck.
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:46:49 PM EDT
[#44]
Partially. I work in IT for a partially state funded educational institution.
Honestly, I think half the private IT companies I know of are all just contractors for the Federal government, anyway (I think most of them were for the Feds end-run around their own constitutional limitations, which is supposed to be unconstitutional as well, but...). |
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Posted: 4/19/2024 11:48:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RIP-Yataski: You'd be hard pressed to find a guy that doesn't have .gov anywhere up his wage ladder... Oh yeah? Tell me where the .gov is in mine. |
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NY, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 12:12:26 AM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RikWriter: Oh yeah? Tell me where the .gov is in mine. Do you sell to people who are government employees? |
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Posted: 4/20/2024 12:19:40 AM EDT
[#47]
Yes...
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LA, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 12:21:48 AM EDT
[#48]
Nah, I get money from poor people too
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NY, USA
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Posted: 4/20/2024 12:33:27 AM EDT
[#49]
Government is something like a third of the US economy.
Probably more for the world economy. Not many people are going to be truly separate from that huge slice of the pie. Better question is did you do something productive FOR your check. |
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Posted: 4/20/2024 12:46:03 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FDC: This. The taxpayers write my retirement check. Of course I'm also a taxpayer so I guess I'm paying myself partly. |
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