Comments on: The Feds giveth http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7778 I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:23:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tioedong http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7778/comment-page-1#comment-16754 tioedong Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:45:15 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=7778#comment-16754 anyone who can afford to pay an accountant instead of using the much cheaper TurboTax needs to figure out how to budget. As for health insurance, the "scam" in Oklahoma is to find you have a Cherokee grandmother and then demand first class treatment at your local IHS clinic.... anyone who can afford to pay an accountant instead of using the much cheaper TurboTax needs to figure out how to budget.

As for health insurance, the “scam” in Oklahoma is to find you have a Cherokee grandmother and then demand first class treatment at your local IHS clinic….

]]> By: Mark Alger http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7778/comment-page-1#comment-16713 Mark Alger Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:02:18 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=7778#comment-16713 I can state with virtual certainty that, were government not sucking up 40% and more of my income, my debt-to-whatever ratio would be far different. M I can state with virtual certainty that, were government not sucking up 40% and more of my income, my debt-to-whatever ratio would be far different.

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]]> By: CGHill http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7778/comment-page-1#comment-16710 CGHill Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:36:02 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=7778#comment-16710 Blair: Thanks, but this isn't my story; I'm just passing it along. Blair: Thanks, but this isn’t my story; I’m just passing it along.

]]> By: fillyjonk http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7778/comment-page-1#comment-16706 fillyjonk Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:33:44 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=7778#comment-16706 Estimated tax is one of the more evil little things (well, of many evil little things) the IRS does. Thanks to some unexpected investment income one year (while I was in grad school, pulling down $12K in salary, no less) I wound up having to do it for the following year. (After which I seriously upped my withholding, which meant I was perpetually broke, but I didn't really care - anything is better than having to remember quarterly payments when your brain is already mortgaged to something else) AMT is also seriously evil, but my understanding is that the threat of that is going to go away, at least for the middle-class sorts. Estimated tax is one of the more evil little things (well, of many evil little things) the IRS does.

Thanks to some unexpected investment income one year (while I was in grad school, pulling down $12K in salary, no less) I wound up having to do it for the following year. (After which I seriously upped my withholding, which meant I was perpetually broke, but I didn’t really care – anything is better than having to remember quarterly payments when your brain is already mortgaged to something else)

AMT is also seriously evil, but my understanding is that the threat of that is going to go away, at least for the middle-class sorts.

]]> By: ms7168 http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7778/comment-page-1#comment-16705 ms7168 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:07:19 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=7778#comment-16705 You could do just as I intend and withdraw the money for the taxes which will incur more wrath next year :( However . . this year I intend having them withhold 25% Federal tax instead of 15% so that at least there won't be another huge tax bill next year. You could do just as I intend and withdraw the money for the taxes which will incur more wrath next year :( However . . this year I intend having them withhold 25% Federal tax instead of 15% so that at least there won’t be another huge tax bill next year.

]]> By: Blair http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7778/comment-page-1#comment-16704 Blair Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:56:45 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=7778#comment-16704 Charlie - Sorry to hear that. Your thinking in avoiding a debt crisis was sound. Unfortunately, it seems like people that act irresponsibly to create a crisis are the ones that get paid off. Well at least you have your dignity intact my friend. Best of luck, Blair Charlie -

Sorry to hear that. Your thinking in avoiding a debt crisis was sound. Unfortunately, it seems like people that act irresponsibly to create a crisis are the ones that get paid off.

Well at least you have your dignity intact my friend.

Best of luck,

Blair

]]> By: McGehee http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7778/comment-page-1#comment-16701 McGehee Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:49:37 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=7778#comment-16701 ...which would be, like, <i>so</i> 2008. …which would be, like, so 2008.

]]> By: McGehee http://www.dustbury.com/archives/7778/comment-page-1#comment-16700 McGehee Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:49:17 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=7778#comment-16700 If I could be sure it absolutely could not possibly be subject to similar manipulation, I might post <a href="http://www.fairtax.org/" rel="nofollow">a link</a> to something different from the existing tax code. But that would be the triumph of hope over experience. If I could be sure it absolutely could not possibly be subject to similar manipulation, I might post a link to something different from the existing tax code.

But that would be the triumph of hope over experience.

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