tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post114525534869863896..comments2024-03-25T04:46:46.000-04:00Comments on Casting Pearls Before Swine: Tax DayMarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15633208787250567256noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1145352280325965812006-04-18T05:24:00.000-04:002006-04-18T05:24:00.000-04:00Did evil conservative teacher abandon her blog?Did evil conservative teacher abandon her blog?Lone Rangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13278448546799358207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1145333604181804682006-04-18T00:13:00.000-04:002006-04-18T00:13:00.000-04:00I agree with Pero, I play with it so I get a very ...I agree with Pero, I play with it so I get a very small return or payment, no need to give them a false notion of free cash. Pay your taxes on time , legally and elect those that want to lower them and reform the system drastically.Goathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11263194970690639096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1145333537185030972006-04-18T00:12:00.000-04:002006-04-18T00:12:00.000-04:00Mark Said..."Dan, i get a certain amount per mile ...Mark Said...<BR/><BR/>"Dan, i get a certain amount per mile for my mileage. If my expenses go over my income I get money back."<BR/><BR/>It works that way with over the road truck drivers too.<BR/><BR/>You can claim as much as $45 per dieum for every night you stay away from home. I can't take advantage of this anynore, since I am a day-tripper, but I have gotten back as much as $5500 in the past because of it. (This year, the wife and I almost cut it too close. We barely broke even.) <BR/><BR/>Truck drivers can also deduct any tools, clothes, electronic toys, DVD's, shower fees, and basically anything else they buy on the road from their taxes.<BR/><BR/>We are almost at the point in America where a majority of americans will not pay any taxes at all.<BR/><BR/>When we hit that point, we will never again have any meaningful Tax Reform.tugboatcapnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14751281215697965077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1145333329206833942006-04-18T00:08:00.000-04:002006-04-18T00:08:00.000-04:00This is why I support a consumption tax and doing ...This is why I support a consumption tax and doing away with the IRS as we know it. Alexander Hamilton felt this was the best way as it could not get to high then consumption would drop, a market based ideal. Hamilton is the father of our economy and had much to say on this. Todays Federalist Patriot will give you a glimpse.Goathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11263194970690639096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1145332925990800872006-04-18T00:02:00.000-04:002006-04-18T00:02:00.000-04:00So, you're taking money free from the gov't that i...So, you're taking money free from the gov't that isn't yours? Ain't that against the Conservative Credo?Dan Trabuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14303597141397042669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1145331922725153862006-04-17T23:45:00.000-04:002006-04-17T23:45:00.000-04:00Dan, i get a certain amount per mile for my mileag...Dan, i get a certain amount per mile for my mileage. If my expenses go over my income I get money back.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633208787250567256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1145324880529045422006-04-17T21:48:00.000-04:002006-04-17T21:48:00.000-04:00"I ended up 1770 ahead, Pero. I don't pay taxes! ...."I ended up 1770 ahead, Pero. I don't pay taxes! ... I don't have taxes witheld from my paycheck. I get it all, and then as the end of the year, I get more. This is yet one more reason to keep the Republicans in control."<BR/><BR/>Maybe I'm failing to understand, but you don't pay taxes and you got a refund? Doesn't a refund infer you're getting money <I>back</I>?Dan Trabuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14303597141397042669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1145281827762694632006-04-17T09:50:00.000-04:002006-04-17T09:50:00.000-04:00Woohoo! That's fantastic! Oh, I;m not sure, but I ...Woohoo! That's fantastic! Oh, I;m not sure, but I think that there is a grace period for not filing your taxes, and I know for sure that at the beginning of the year, they had a no questions asked...where you could file old taxes without penalties. How do I know this? Well, let's just say last year, I had to make use of this offer, b/c I had forgotten to file the previous years taxes (actually, I just forgot to mail in the suckers and when I found the envelope, I was too embarrassed to send them in)Chipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14887804004946302974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1145279270225157592006-04-17T09:07:00.000-04:002006-04-17T09:07:00.000-04:00What happened to them? They are included. I think....What happened to them? They are included. I think.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633208787250567256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1145279139750673902006-04-17T09:05:00.000-04:002006-04-17T09:05:00.000-04:00Whoa, whoa - what happened to failure to file on t...Whoa, whoa - what happened to failure to file on time penalties & failure to file at all penalties, plus the interest on those charges? They can get hefty.Francis Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02656090914379827901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1145273376383470512006-04-17T07:29:00.000-04:002006-04-17T07:29:00.000-04:00I ended up 1770 ahead, Pero. I don't pay taxes! Be...I ended up 1770 ahead, Pero. I don't pay taxes! Being an independent contractor, I don't have taxes witheld from my paycheck. I get it all, and then as the end of the year, I get more. This is yet one more reason to keep the Republicans in control.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633208787250567256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1145267238758790572006-04-17T05:47:00.000-04:002006-04-17T05:47:00.000-04:00Who says you can't be wounded by a blank? (odl jo...Who says you can't be wounded by a blank? (odl joke) There were a few times in the past 10 years when I walked out of the tax office sweating and wanting to vomit. But this year I got a refund even from the state of VA, which has never happened before. The income tax is primarily what is wrong with this country. By the time the various levels of government are through taxing every human activity, you've lost half your income. Result: both parents have to work just to put food on the table. Parents don't have the time or the money to give their kids the attention they need. The feds alone took a quarter of my income this year. That money goes to the federal government to fund things they shouldn't be doing in the first place. Then we elect Senators and Representatives to try to get some of that money back to the states. So we don't vote for the best statesmen, the people with the best ideas, the best leaders, we elect the most grasping and venal. As a result, we have people like former Ku Klux Klan Kleagle Byrd sullying the Senate simply because he can bring home the pork. The entire income tax system leads to corruption. I guess that's why the Founding Fathers didn't impose it on us.Lone Rangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13278448546799358207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1145260501317811582006-04-17T03:55:00.000-04:002006-04-17T03:55:00.000-04:00$1700 ahead? Nah, it just means the SOB's got to ...$1700 ahead? Nah, it just means the SOB's got to play with your $$ all year..........AND YOU DIDN'T.<BR/><BR/>I've long paid about 35% of my taxes on Tax Day!........It's not too tough to figure out how much to withhold, and put in savings till April.<BR/><BR/>Better in my bank than in the pockets of some dirtbag who refuses to work for a living.<BR/>--------<BR/>Hope you had a good Easter, Mark.......And the rest of you as well.Poison Perohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03719658237554227638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1145256263373144992006-04-17T02:44:00.000-04:002006-04-17T02:44:00.000-04:00Even a blind squirrel finds a nut on occasion, pay...Even a blind squirrel finds a nut on occasion, pay your taxes, you got very lucky.Goathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11263194970690639096noreply@blogger.com