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Originally Posted By Cecenrse: Every single American owes it to themselves to pay as little in taxes as possible while using every loophole and opportunity that congress enacted. Let rich people keep their money, the poor sure don't pay their fair share either. Fuck that noise about people not paying enough in taxes. #TaxationIsTheft View Quote Many of the poor get our share that we paid in through earned income and child credits in returns. They get more than they paid in. Often they never even paid any in but still get a check from the IRS |
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Originally Posted By Win1300: I guess we will have to agree to disagree. The ultra wealthy have the means to utilize loopholes note available to the average American. From the article: The idea of a regular tax on income, much less on wealth, does not appear in the country’s founding documents. In fact, Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution explicitly prohibits “direct” taxes on citizens under most circumstances. This meant that for decades, the U.S. government mainly funded itself through “indirect” taxes: tariffs and levies on consumer goods like tobacco and alcohol. With the costs of the Civil War looming, Congress imposed a national income tax in 1861. The wealthy helped force its repeal soon after the war ended. (Their pique could only have been exacerbated by the fact that the law required public disclosure. The annual income of the moguls of the day — $1.3 million for William Astor; $576,000 for Cornelius Vanderbilt — was listed in the pages of The New York Times in 1865.) and In the early years, the personal income tax worked as Congress intended, falling squarely on the richest. In 1918, only 15% of American families owed any tax. The top 1% paid 80% of the revenue raised, according to historian W. Elliot Brownlee. But a question remained: What would count as income and what wouldn’t? In 1916, a woman named Myrtle Macomber received a dividend for her Standard Oil of California shares. She owed taxes, thanks to the new law. The dividend had not come in cash, however. It came in the form of an additional share for every two shares she already held. She paid the taxes and then brought a court challenge: Yes, she’d gotten a bit richer, but she hadn’t received any money. Therefore, she argued, she’d received no “income.” Four years later, the Supreme Court agreed. In Eisner v. Macomber, the high court ruled that income derived only from proceeds. A person needed to sell an asset — stock, bond or building — and reap some money before it could be taxed. Since then, the concept that income comes only from proceeds — when gains are “realized” — has been the bedrock of the U.S. tax system. Wages are taxed. Cash dividends are taxed. Gains from selling assets are taxed. But if a taxpayer hasn’t sold anything, there is no income and therefore no tax. Contemporary critics of Macomber were plentiful and prescient. Cordell Hull, the congressman known as the “father” of the income tax, assailed the decision, according to scholar Marjorie Kornhauser. Hull predicted that tax avoidance would become common. The ruling opened a gaping loophole, Hull warned, allowing industrialists to build a company and borrow against the stock to pay living expenses. Anyone could “live upon the value” of their company stock “without selling it, and of course, without ever paying” tax, he said. So if you have an asset - let's say a stock or a house that has appreciated in value greatly - you can "borrow" against that increased value and use the money borrowed on "investments". And the money you "borrowed" will allow you to deduct the interest you paid in some cases. This article points out the absurdity of the federal income tax. It is designed to protect those who typically donate $$ to the elected officials. If you are okay with that - that's fine. I'm not. Note the following Most Americans have to work to live. When they do, they get paid — and they get taxed. The federal government considers almost every dollar workers earn to be “income,” and employers take taxes directly out of their paychecks. The Bezoses of the world have no need to be paid a salary. Bezos’ Amazon wages have long been set at the middle-class level of around $80,000 a year. and Yet this is not the self-effacing gesture it appears to be: Wages are taxed at a high rate. The top 25 wealthiest Americans reported $158 million in wages in 2018, according to the IRS data. That’s a mere 1.1% of what they listed on their tax forms as their total reported income. The rest mostly came from dividends and the sale of stock, bonds or other investments, which are taxed at lower rates than wages. If this doesn't trouble you - I don't know what to say. That is, for every $100 of wealth growth over that period, typical Americans paid $160 in taxes. Bezos paid only $1.09. View Quote Your writing reads like a communist wrote it. |
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Originally Posted By Freakinout: He will be fired soon View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Freakinout: He will be fired soon If I remember correctly, I had a class with her one spring in the 90s. |
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Originally Posted By 30calTBLkid: If I remember correctly, I had a class with her one spring in the 90s. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By 30calTBLkid: Originally Posted By Freakinout: He will be fired soon If I remember correctly, I had a class with her one spring in the 90s. I was wrong. |
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Originally Posted By Win1300: Federal Income tax is bullshit as presently implemented. If that makes me a communist in your eyes - so be it. View Quote Your rhetoric is correct in part, income tax is bullshit. If you seek economic and individual Liberty, work to repeal the 16th amendment. Set aside envy and childish notions of fairness. Taxation of income takes the bread from the mouth of productivity. |
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Originally Posted By 30calTBLkid: If I remember correctly, I had a class with her one spring in the 90s. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By 30calTBLkid: Originally Posted By Freakinout: He will be fired soon If I remember correctly, I had a class with her one spring in the 90s. Way back machine, never know who ya might run across |
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Originally Posted By mnvwguy02: Taxation of income takes the bread from the mouth of productivity. View Quote On this we agree. And probably on more than a few other things as well. What I posted was taken from the article - those weren't my words. I was pasting them to highlight some of the absurdity of the present system of taxation. Bezos paid zero taxes in a year and claimed the $4,000 child tax credit on top. That's absurd. The fact that Soros who openly hates America and wants to destroy it - yet benefits from all that it offers has multiple years where he paid zero taxes - is absurd. |
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Originally Posted By Freakinout: He will be fired soon View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Freakinout: He will be fired soon Texas State is not UT, Baylor, or SMU. You might be surprised. But then again, nothing, at this point will surprise me. |
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Originally Posted By Win1300: On this we agree. And probably on more than a few other things as well. What I posted was taken from the article - those weren't my words. I was pasting them to highlight some of the absurdity of the present system of taxation. Bezos paid zero taxes in a year and claimed the $4,000 child tax credit on top. That's absurd. The fact that Soros who openly hates America and wants to destroy it - yet benefits from all that it offers has multiple years where he paid zero taxes - is absurd. View Quote I’m glad we agree on things. If I may, the scenarios you’ve noted are not absurd at all. Income is income, gains must be realized to be taxable. Furthermore, deductions are there to be taken (deductions are not “loopholes”, which is pejorative). Corporate income is not individual income. We don’t tax wealth or net worth, nor should we. Capital gains should be taxed at a low enough rate to encourage investment (if we must tax them at all). The correct answer isn’t to tax people more or tax the wealthy more or to use income tax rates to equalize outcomes. The correct answer is to remove the income tax as a lever of government power. The leftist appeal to fairness and envy is effective, it is also a canard. Don’t be swayed by the leftist propaganda. |
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Originally Posted By mnvwguy02: I’m glad we agree on things. If I may, the scenarios you’ve noted are not absurd at all. Income is income, gains must be realized to be taxable. Furthermore, deductions are there to be taken (deductions are not “loopholes”, which is pejorative). Corporate income is not individual income. We don’t tax wealth or net worth, nor should we. Capital gains should be taxed at a low enough rate to encourage investment (if we must tax them at all). The correct answer isn’t to tax people more or tax the wealthy more or to use income tax rates to equalize outcomes. The correct answer is to remove the income tax as a lever of government power. The leftist appeal to fairness and envy is effective, it is also a canard. Don’t be swayed by the leftist propaganda. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By mnvwguy02: Originally Posted By Win1300: On this we agree. And probably on more than a few other things as well. What I posted was taken from the article - those weren't my words. I was pasting them to highlight some of the absurdity of the present system of taxation. Bezos paid zero taxes in a year and claimed the $4,000 child tax credit on top. That's absurd. The fact that Soros who openly hates America and wants to destroy it - yet benefits from all that it offers has multiple years where he paid zero taxes - is absurd. I’m glad we agree on things. If I may, the scenarios you’ve noted are not absurd at all. Income is income, gains must be realized to be taxable. Furthermore, deductions are there to be taken (deductions are not “loopholes”, which is pejorative). Corporate income is not individual income. We don’t tax wealth or net worth, nor should we. Capital gains should be taxed at a low enough rate to encourage investment (if we must tax them at all). The correct answer isn’t to tax people more or tax the wealthy more or to use income tax rates to equalize outcomes. The correct answer is to remove the income tax as a lever of government power. The leftist appeal to fairness and envy is effective, it is also a canard. Don’t be swayed by the leftist propaganda. Thank you. You stated this much more elegantly and thoroughly than I ever could. I believe you and I are in agreement. |
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, 'social justice. |
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, 'social justice. |
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Originally Posted By Win1300: I guess we will have to agree to disagree. The ultra wealthy have the means to utilize loopholes note available to the average American. From the article: The idea of a regular tax on income, much less on wealth, does not appear in the country’s founding documents. In fact, Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution explicitly prohibits “direct” taxes on citizens under most circumstances. This meant that for decades, the U.S. government mainly funded itself through “indirect” taxes: tariffs and levies on consumer goods like tobacco and alcohol. With the costs of the Civil War looming, Congress imposed a national income tax in 1861. The wealthy helped force its repeal soon after the war ended. (Their pique could only have been exacerbated by the fact that the law required public disclosure. The annual income of the moguls of the day — $1.3 million for William Astor; $576,000 for Cornelius Vanderbilt — was listed in the pages of The New York Times in 1865.) and In the early years, the personal income tax worked as Congress intended, falling squarely on the richest. In 1918, only 15% of American families owed any tax. The top 1% paid 80% of the revenue raised, according to historian W. Elliot Brownlee. But a question remained: What would count as income and what wouldn’t? In 1916, a woman named Myrtle Macomber received a dividend for her Standard Oil of California shares. She owed taxes, thanks to the new law. The dividend had not come in cash, however. It came in the form of an additional share for every two shares she already held. She paid the taxes and then brought a court challenge: Yes, she’d gotten a bit richer, but she hadn’t received any money. Therefore, she argued, she’d received no “income.” Four years later, the Supreme Court agreed. In Eisner v. Macomber, the high court ruled that income derived only from proceeds. A person needed to sell an asset — stock, bond or building — and reap some money before it could be taxed. Since then, the concept that income comes only from proceeds — when gains are “realized” — has been the bedrock of the U.S. tax system. Wages are taxed. Cash dividends are taxed. Gains from selling assets are taxed. But if a taxpayer hasn’t sold anything, there is no income and therefore no tax. Contemporary critics of Macomber were plentiful and prescient. Cordell Hull, the congressman known as the “father” of the income tax, assailed the decision, according to scholar Marjorie Kornhauser. Hull predicted that tax avoidance would become common. The ruling opened a gaping loophole, Hull warned, allowing industrialists to build a company and borrow against the stock to pay living expenses. Anyone could “live upon the value” of their company stock “without selling it, and of course, without ever paying” tax, he said. So if you have an asset - let's say a stock or a house that has appreciated in value greatly - you can "borrow" against that increased value and use the money borrowed on "investments". And the money you "borrowed" will allow you to deduct the interest you paid in some cases. This article points out the absurdity of the federal income tax. It is designed to protect those who typically donate $$ to the elected officials. If you are okay with that - that's fine. I'm not. Note the following Most Americans have to work to live. When they do, they get paid — and they get taxed. The federal government considers almost every dollar workers earn to be “income,” and employers take taxes directly out of their paychecks. The Bezoses of the world have no need to be paid a salary. Bezos’ Amazon wages have long been set at the middle-class level of around $80,000 a year. and Yet this is not the self-effacing gesture it appears to be: Wages are taxed at a high rate. The top 25 wealthiest Americans reported $158 million in wages in 2018, according to the IRS data. That’s a mere 1.1% of what they listed on their tax forms as their total reported income. The rest mostly came from dividends and the sale of stock, bonds or other investments, which are taxed at lower rates than wages. If this doesn't trouble you - I don't know what to say. That is, for every $100 of wealth growth over that period, typical Americans paid $160 in taxes. Bezos paid only $1.09. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Win1300: Originally Posted By Cecenrse: Every single American owes it to themselves to pay as little in taxes as possible while using every loophole and opportunity that congress enacted. Let rich people keep their money, the poor sure don't pay their fair share either. Fuck that noise about people not paying enough in taxes. #TaxationIsTheft I guess we will have to agree to disagree. The ultra wealthy have the means to utilize loopholes note available to the average American. From the article: The idea of a regular tax on income, much less on wealth, does not appear in the country’s founding documents. In fact, Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution explicitly prohibits “direct” taxes on citizens under most circumstances. This meant that for decades, the U.S. government mainly funded itself through “indirect” taxes: tariffs and levies on consumer goods like tobacco and alcohol. With the costs of the Civil War looming, Congress imposed a national income tax in 1861. The wealthy helped force its repeal soon after the war ended. (Their pique could only have been exacerbated by the fact that the law required public disclosure. The annual income of the moguls of the day — $1.3 million for William Astor; $576,000 for Cornelius Vanderbilt — was listed in the pages of The New York Times in 1865.) and In the early years, the personal income tax worked as Congress intended, falling squarely on the richest. In 1918, only 15% of American families owed any tax. The top 1% paid 80% of the revenue raised, according to historian W. Elliot Brownlee. But a question remained: What would count as income and what wouldn’t? In 1916, a woman named Myrtle Macomber received a dividend for her Standard Oil of California shares. She owed taxes, thanks to the new law. The dividend had not come in cash, however. It came in the form of an additional share for every two shares she already held. She paid the taxes and then brought a court challenge: Yes, she’d gotten a bit richer, but she hadn’t received any money. Therefore, she argued, she’d received no “income.” Four years later, the Supreme Court agreed. In Eisner v. Macomber, the high court ruled that income derived only from proceeds. A person needed to sell an asset — stock, bond or building — and reap some money before it could be taxed. Since then, the concept that income comes only from proceeds — when gains are “realized” — has been the bedrock of the U.S. tax system. Wages are taxed. Cash dividends are taxed. Gains from selling assets are taxed. But if a taxpayer hasn’t sold anything, there is no income and therefore no tax. Contemporary critics of Macomber were plentiful and prescient. Cordell Hull, the congressman known as the “father” of the income tax, assailed the decision, according to scholar Marjorie Kornhauser. Hull predicted that tax avoidance would become common. The ruling opened a gaping loophole, Hull warned, allowing industrialists to build a company and borrow against the stock to pay living expenses. Anyone could “live upon the value” of their company stock “without selling it, and of course, without ever paying” tax, he said. So if you have an asset - let's say a stock or a house that has appreciated in value greatly - you can "borrow" against that increased value and use the money borrowed on "investments". And the money you "borrowed" will allow you to deduct the interest you paid in some cases. This article points out the absurdity of the federal income tax. It is designed to protect those who typically donate $$ to the elected officials. If you are okay with that - that's fine. I'm not. Note the following Most Americans have to work to live. When they do, they get paid — and they get taxed. The federal government considers almost every dollar workers earn to be “income,” and employers take taxes directly out of their paychecks. The Bezoses of the world have no need to be paid a salary. Bezos’ Amazon wages have long been set at the middle-class level of around $80,000 a year. and Yet this is not the self-effacing gesture it appears to be: Wages are taxed at a high rate. The top 25 wealthiest Americans reported $158 million in wages in 2018, according to the IRS data. That’s a mere 1.1% of what they listed on their tax forms as their total reported income. The rest mostly came from dividends and the sale of stock, bonds or other investments, which are taxed at lower rates than wages. If this doesn't trouble you - I don't know what to say. That is, for every $100 of wealth growth over that period, typical Americans paid $160 in taxes. Bezos paid only $1.09. There are no "Loopholes" in the tax code. Everything is in there by design. Tax loopholes are like gunshow loopholes, they are both rhetorical devices used to get an emotional reaction. If capital/dividends were taxed at the same rate as income, we'd trade one set of economic problems for a much larger set of economic problems. |
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Originally Posted By Win1300: On this we agree. And probably on more than a few other things as well. What I posted was taken from the article - those weren't my words. I was pasting them to highlight some of the absurdity of the present system of taxation. Bezos paid zero taxes in a year and claimed the $4,000 child tax credit on top. That's absurd. The fact that Soros who openly hates America and wants to destroy it - yet benefits from all that it offers has multiple years where he paid zero taxes - is absurd. View Quote |
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Originally Posted By ecgRN: Train like you fish. Fish like you train. https://i.imgur.com/ytrMY6N.jpg?1 View Quote In Florida we'd put a hook in that a use it for bait. |
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Originally Posted By Cecenrse: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/733391165159768155/852004163545595955/image0.png?width=433&height=398 This seems awfully convenient with all the current ransomware supposedly originating with "Russian" hackers where our people are able to track them down and confiscate the bitcoin payments. Just saying.................... View Quote What's interesting is that only 85% of the BTC was recovered, so the other 15% was probably paid to an affiliate before the decision was made to return the rest. They didn't even attempt to wash the coins that were recovered, only a few transfers were done before they were placed in the final location where the government stated they already had the private key. Not saying I would have a hard time believing it to be a false flag type situation, but the above is what was discussed on a call I was on today. |
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Originally Posted By Cecenrse: https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/4rBYTV37iUJUsY_c5af86sXLH5hMDDaH6TggLzKS-pY/https/media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/076/216/624/original/38423a6301c19fa1.png View Quote Darrell Hammond - Best Of Sean Connery |
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This is about the "ground breaking" study that discovered what was already known...that vaxxing those with natural immunity was dumb. yay science.
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Originally Posted By Gopher: Texas State is not UT, Baylor, or SMU. You might be surprised. But then again, nothing, at this point will surprise me. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Gopher: Originally Posted By Freakinout: He will be fired soon Texas State is not UT, Baylor, or SMU. You might be surprised. But then again, nothing, at this point will surprise me. Sul Ross might have a spot for him |
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Damn pussy Yankees are irritating me today. Its not even 90 yet and they are pissing and moaning about the heat already. It is humid as fuck though.
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Originally Posted By Gopher: Texas State is not UT, Baylor, or SMU. You might be surprised. But then again, nothing, at this point will surprise me. View Quote Class of '95 here, although my diploma says SWTSU. Great undergrad school and experience, and I say that having been a transfer from UT Austin. SWTSU is not those other schools, but it is still among the woke schools and has done some pants-on-the-head retard stuff in the name of wokism. The anthropology department is pretty significant and I would not be surprised to see some kind of censure. I don't think it will be firing. |
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Originally Posted By m24shooter: Class of '95 here, although my diploma says SWTSU. Great undergrad school and experience, and I say that having been a transfer from UT Austin. SWTSU is not those other schools, but it is still among the woke schools and has done some pants-on-the-head retard stuff in the name of wokism. The anthropology department is pretty significant and I would not be surprised to see some kind of censure. I don't think it will be firing. View Quote Not surprising. There was a surprising amount of it at A&M when my daughter graduated in 2014 and has gradually increased according to friends who have children there. It makes you wonder if there are any truly conservative schools left. |
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Originally Posted By elcope: I'm surprised you can hear me bitching all the way from San Antonio. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By elcope: Originally Posted By m35ben: Damn pussy Yankees are irritating me today. Its not even 90 yet and they are pissing and moaning about the heat already. It is humid as fuck though. I'm surprised you can hear me bitching all the way from San Antonio. it will get up over a 120 next week |
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Originally Posted By Gopher: Not surprising. There was a surprising amount of it at A&M when my daughter graduated in 2014 and has gradually increased according to friends who have children there. It makes you wonder if there are any truly conservative schools left. View Quote When I graduated HS I had scholarships to A&M and UT Austin. I turned down A&M because it reminded me of going to a prison (Corps of Cadets) and Austin looked like a lot more fun. Once I got on campus at UT I hated the student body for the most part. And this was early 90s. A&M was solidly conservative then. I played lacrosse and A&M had the big tournament there for the SWAC, and we played A&M twice a year on top of that so I got to go over there several times a year. I actually like going there and never really had a problem on campus even wearing Longhorn gear. I had several friends that went there at the same time, and the environment was very different than what it is now. She Who Must Be Obeyed's family has a lot of A&M grads in it, some as recent as your daughter and a year or two later. My daughter was considering going there and we went down to look at the campus and it was a totally different experience from when I was there as an undergrad. I don't know what schools can still be considered solidly conservative. I think some departments of some state schools are conservative, but that's about it. |
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Originally Posted By m35ben: Damn pussy Yankees are irritating me today. Its not even 90 yet and they are pissing and moaning about the heat already. It is humid as fuck though. View Quote 90 is a mild day. But thrown in 90-something percent humidity and that's all she wrote, son. EDIT: Or the dew point. I can't remember which one. I'm no weather surgeon. |
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