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  • M mitchell50

    Well, if you want to start a revolt against taxes, there are two of us - maybe three with Wesley. As I recall, slavery begins when a lord extracts more than half your earnings. I'm practicing my "yes mi lord" 'cause they're taking more than 50%! The only reason tax freedom day is April 26th is that people cheat on their taxes and the study dosen't count the rest. How do we go about getting half the tax payers to revolt? I don't think the IRS will much care but the politicians will.

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    Richard Stringer
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    mitchell50 wrote:

    I'm practicing my "yes mi lord" 'cause they're taking more than 50%!

    Just what income bracket are you in ? I make well into the 6 figures and I don't pay near that much and my accountant is honest as heck when calculating my taxes. I have monies from investments and savings as well as income from my work ( self employeed as far as the IRS is concerned ) so I pay the self employment tax as well. I stuff all I can into a SEP account and a 401 but that doesn't do a whole lot of good when your income exceeds a certain amount. If you are combining State taxes as well as Federal then you can vote with your feet and move to one of them real nice places like Texas which as no income tax - but they eat you alive on property taxes. Richard - waiting to win the lottery so I can go into semi-retirement - maybe

    Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself. --Mark Twain

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      Red Stateler wrote:

      Why's the man always tryin' to keep a brotha down?

      Was this part necassary? I don't rember seeing anything in the artice where Snipes et all claimed it was a case of racism.

      First, what is it you want us to pay taxes for? Tell me what I get and perhaps I’ll buy it. -Manuel O’Kelly, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

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      John Carson
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      Chris Austin wrote:

      Was this part necassary? I don't rember seeing anything in the artice where Snipes et all claimed it was a case of racism.

      When your primary recreational pursuit is to stir up ill-will, then sure it is necessary.

      John Carson "All Mr. Bush and his party can do at this point is demonize their opposition. And my guess is that the public won’t go for it, that Americans are fed up with leadership that has nothing to hope for but fear itself." Paul Krugman

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        mitchell50 wrote:

        I'm practicing my "yes mi lord" 'cause they're taking more than 50%!

        Just what income bracket are you in ? I make well into the 6 figures and I don't pay near that much and my accountant is honest as heck when calculating my taxes. I have monies from investments and savings as well as income from my work ( self employeed as far as the IRS is concerned ) so I pay the self employment tax as well. I stuff all I can into a SEP account and a 401 but that doesn't do a whole lot of good when your income exceeds a certain amount. If you are combining State taxes as well as Federal then you can vote with your feet and move to one of them real nice places like Texas which as no income tax - but they eat you alive on property taxes. Richard - waiting to win the lottery so I can go into semi-retirement - maybe

        Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself. --Mark Twain

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        Mike Gaskey
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        Richard Stringer wrote:

        I make well into the 6 figures and I don't pay near that much

        consider all taxes, state / federal / local / sales / etc.

        Mike Dear NYT - the fact is, the founding fathers hung traitors. Vincent Reynolds: My opposition is as enlightened as your support, jackass. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.

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          Well, if you want to start a revolt against taxes, there are two of us - maybe three with Wesley. As I recall, slavery begins when a lord extracts more than half your earnings. I'm practicing my "yes mi lord" 'cause they're taking more than 50%! The only reason tax freedom day is April 26th is that people cheat on their taxes and the study dosen't count the rest. How do we go about getting half the tax payers to revolt? I don't think the IRS will much care but the politicians will.

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          Mike Gaskey
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          mitchell50 wrote:

          there are two of us - maybe three with Wesley

          let me know if you bump into Wes, then we can start the movement.

          Mike Dear NYT - the fact is, the founding fathers hung traitors. Vincent Reynolds: My opposition is as enlightened as your support, jackass. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.

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          • R Richard Stringer

            mitchell50 wrote:

            I'm practicing my "yes mi lord" 'cause they're taking more than 50%!

            Just what income bracket are you in ? I make well into the 6 figures and I don't pay near that much and my accountant is honest as heck when calculating my taxes. I have monies from investments and savings as well as income from my work ( self employeed as far as the IRS is concerned ) so I pay the self employment tax as well. I stuff all I can into a SEP account and a 401 but that doesn't do a whole lot of good when your income exceeds a certain amount. If you are combining State taxes as well as Federal then you can vote with your feet and move to one of them real nice places like Texas which as no income tax - but they eat you alive on property taxes. Richard - waiting to win the lottery so I can go into semi-retirement - maybe

            Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself. --Mark Twain

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            Christian Graus
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            Richard Stringer wrote:

            you can vote with your feet and move to one of them real nice places like Texas which as no income tax - but they eat you alive on property taxes

            Really ? Damn. I'm paid out of Texas for some work, I wonder if I can pay tax in Texas...

            Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

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              Richard Stringer wrote:

              you can vote with your feet and move to one of them real nice places like Texas which as no income tax - but they eat you alive on property taxes

              Really ? Damn. I'm paid out of Texas for some work, I wonder if I can pay tax in Texas...

              Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

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              Mike Gaskey
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              Christian Graus wrote:

              I wonder if I can pay tax in Texas...

              Get a post office box and bank account in Texas. Have the PO box be your address, address for bank records, then have you checks direct deposited into the Texas bank account. Then use a bank debit card to draw out money or use the bank's on-line system to transfer funds.

              Mike Dear NYT - the fact is, the founding fathers hung traitors. Vincent Reynolds: My opposition is as enlightened as your support, jackass. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.

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                Chris Austin wrote:

                Was this part necassary? I don't rember seeing anything in the artice where Snipes et all claimed it was a case of racism.

                When your primary recreational pursuit is to stir up ill-will, then sure it is necessary.

                John Carson "All Mr. Bush and his party can do at this point is demonize their opposition. And my guess is that the public won’t go for it, that Americans are fed up with leadership that has nothing to hope for but fear itself." Paul Krugman

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                Red Stateler
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                John Carson wrote:

                When your primary recreational pursuit is to stir up ill-will, then sure it is necessary.

                Only someone with ill-intentions could possibly see ill-will in that.

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                  link[^] It looks like Mr. Snipes faces up to 16 years in prison for tax fraud. Why's the man always tryin' to keep a brotha down?

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                  Marc Clifton
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                  Red Stateler wrote:

                  Why's the man always tryin' to keep a brotha down?

                  $12M in tax fraud is called "keeping the brother down"? Marc

                  Thyme In The Country

                  People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
                  There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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                    Red Stateler wrote:

                    Why's the man always tryin' to keep a brotha down?

                    $12M in tax fraud is called "keeping the brother down"? Marc

                    Thyme In The Country

                    People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
                    There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
                    People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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                    Shaft decrees it thus and thus it shall remain.

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                    • M Mike Gaskey

                      Richard Stringer wrote:

                      I make well into the 6 figures and I don't pay near that much

                      consider all taxes, state / federal / local / sales / etc.

                      Mike Dear NYT - the fact is, the founding fathers hung traitors. Vincent Reynolds: My opposition is as enlightened as your support, jackass. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.

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                      Richard Stringer
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                      Mike Gaskey wrote:

                      consider all taxes, state / federal / local / sales / etc.

                      Well the majority of my tax burden is Federal. We have no State tax in Texas. We have a pretty large property tax but it is reducible by getting a homestead exemption. For example on a 100,000 home in Dallas you would pay about 2900 a year in property tax. The homestead exemption reduced that to around 1900. Sales taxes vary from town to town, In Dallas we pay a little over 7%. But many items are exempt from sales taxes. I estimate that my total tax burden is around 40% with that FIC taking up most of that. Richard

                      Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself. --Mark Twain

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                        Mike Gaskey wrote:

                        consider all taxes, state / federal / local / sales / etc.

                        Well the majority of my tax burden is Federal. We have no State tax in Texas. We have a pretty large property tax but it is reducible by getting a homestead exemption. For example on a 100,000 home in Dallas you would pay about 2900 a year in property tax. The homestead exemption reduced that to around 1900. Sales taxes vary from town to town, In Dallas we pay a little over 7%. But many items are exempt from sales taxes. I estimate that my total tax burden is around 40% with that FIC taking up most of that. Richard

                        Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself. --Mark Twain

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                        Mike Gaskey
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                        Richard Stringer wrote:

                        For example on a 100,000 home in Dallas you would pay about 2900 a year in property tax

                        I know. I used to have a small rental in Garland ( roughly a 75,000 property ) and between Dallas County, Parkland and GISD taxes it cost me 2,400 per year.

                        Richard Stringer wrote:

                        In Dallas we pay a little over 7%

                        Of course you've gotten the hi-5 and the rail that'll take you from Plano to Ft. Worth. I agree, re: the 40% total, if in Texas. Indiana costs me a little more because of state (and for God's sake, county) income tax. My wife makes a decent income as well and we pay thru the nose.

                        Mike Dear NYT - the fact is, the founding fathers hung traitors. Vincent Reynolds: My opposition is as enlightened as your support, jackass. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.

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                        • M Mike Gaskey

                          Christian Graus wrote:

                          I wonder if I can pay tax in Texas...

                          Get a post office box and bank account in Texas. Have the PO box be your address, address for bank records, then have you checks direct deposited into the Texas bank account. Then use a bank debit card to draw out money or use the bank's on-line system to transfer funds.

                          Mike Dear NYT - the fact is, the founding fathers hung traitors. Vincent Reynolds: My opposition is as enlightened as your support, jackass. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.

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                          Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                          Sounds like a Texan scam e-mail... :-D

                          -- Presented in BC [Brain Control] where available

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                            John Carson wrote:

                            When your primary recreational pursuit is to stir up ill-will, then sure it is necessary.

                            Only someone with ill-intentions could possibly see ill-will in that.

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                            Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                            No, you have made that pretty clear, all by yourself. There is no other explanation for half of the drivel you post here. Technically, the reason could be that you're a idiot (in medical terms). But since you seem to have a proper vocabulary, it would seem that you have at least an average IQ, which means only one thing: You're an idiot wannabe. :)

                            -- Deciphered from crop circles

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                            • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                              Sounds like a Texan scam e-mail... :-D

                              -- Presented in BC [Brain Control] where available

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                              Mike Gaskey
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                              Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:

                              Sounds like a Texan scam e-mail...

                              ya, learned it from the Nigerians. I actually know someone who did something similar to this in the late 70s / early 80s. They relocated to Mass. from Texas for a 3 year assignment. They maintained their Texas existence and avoided Mass. state income taxes.

                              Mike Dear NYT - the fact is, the founding fathers hung traitors. Vincent Reynolds: My opposition is as enlightened as your support, jackass. dennisd45: My view of the world is slightly more nuanced dennisd45 (the NAMBLA supporter) wrote: I know exactly what it means. So shut up you mother killing baby raper.

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