April 15 is coming...

[Rambunctious]

Here's a crazy idea:

Instead of taxing the rich to redistribute to the unwashed masses until they are poor too, no longer successful and creating jobs or feeding the economy, until you run out of their money, has anyone ever considered just going out and working hard, creating their own business, and getting rich for themselves?

Maybe instead, they should be looking to get rich too instead of trying to make the successful poor like them.

It's not like the economy is a pie with only so much pie to go around.

Funny how republicans see getting rich as a GOAL for everyone
While progressives view being rich as just victimizing others.

Republicans want a world of prosperity.
Leftists want a world of poverty.

Oh wait, except for their elite like Nancy.

Oh yes that's the problem with socialism... the giver of gifts to the desperate hordes seem to be the only benefiter's of the gifts....

 

[Thinker101]

Meeting with my accountant on Monday.

Called ahead just to get a guesstimat on how much of a check I need to write... good news, only a couple thousand

I pay in quarterly and try to get it so my amount due when I file is zero, so to only miss by a $2,000 is pretty good.

You poor thing. I paid quarterlies in 2023 and 2024, got tired of that nonsense. Made a few changes in 2025 and got refunded a good chunk from 2025, and not paying quarterlies this year.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Using the crops as in the previous example.

I don't pay for increased food prices do to increased costs of production?

Or are you in the camp that Canadians pay the tariff on pot ash imports and the costs for US farmers buying fertilizer that used Canadian pot ash for production remained flat and that the increased on food prices are a figment of my imagination?

From the SCOTUS - LEARNING RESOURCES, INC. v. DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:

The power to impose tariffs is “very clear[ly] . . . a branch of the taxing power.” Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1, 201 (1824). “A tariff,” after all, “is a tax levied on imported goods and services.” Congressional Research Service (CRS), C. Casey, U. S. Tariff Policy: Overview 1 (2025). And tariffs “raise[] revenue,” West Lynn Creamery, Inc. v. Healy, 512 U. S. 186, 193 (1994)—the defining feature of a tax, United States v. Kahriger, 345 U. S. 22, 28, and n. 4 (1953); Sonzinsky v. United States, 300 U. S. 506, 514 (1937). Indeed, the Framers expected that the Government would for “a long time depend . . . chiefly on” tariffs for revenue. The Federalist No. 12, at 93 (A. Hamilton). Little wonder, then, that the First Congress’s first exercise of its taxing power (and its second enacted law, right after the one providing for the new officials to take an oath) was a tariff law. See Act of July 4, 1789, ch. 2, 1 Stat. 24.

Recognizing the taxing power’s unique importance, and having just fought a revolution motivated in large part by “taxation without representation,” the Framers gave Congress “alone . . . access to the pockets of the people.”

WW

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1287_4gcj.pdf

You have a serious learning disability. No one cares about your imaginary tax.

 

[leftwinger]

JohnDB

Some people call them tariffs.

And everyone pays tariffs, either directly or indictly.

For example pot ash is imported as part of fertilizer production. Pot Ash now has a tariff on it. Pos Ash is used to create fertilizer, fertilizer is bought by US farmers to help grow crops, they pass increased fertilizer cost into the supply chain, I buy more expensive food. I pay the tariffs as a consumer.

That's just one example.

Now you can have your normal reaction with an insult.

WW

Or you pay welfare and fraud to the 50 million not working on Welfare or other.

instead Pay Tariffs to level trade maybe we make it here create jobs you Cheese Clowns. It ain't easy to undo a mess like your criminals have made to date.

 

[initforme]

Here's a crazy idea:

Instead of taxing the rich to redistribute to the unwashed masses until they are poor too, no longer successful and creating jobs or feeding the economy, until you run out of their money, has anyone ever considered just going out and working hard, creating their own business, and getting rich for themselves?

Maybe instead, they should be looking to get rich too instead of trying to make the successful poor like them.

It's not like the economy is a pie with only so much pie to go around.

Funny how republicans see getting rich as a GOAL for everyone
While progressives view being rich as just victimizing others.

Republicans want a world of prosperity.
Leftists want a world of poverty.

Oh wait, except for their elite like Nancy.

Using your logic then you perceive poor folk as a drain on society which of course we all know is far from the truth. Someone has to do the work for the ceo to make them rich.

 

[leftwinger]

Using your logic then you perceive poor folk as a drain on society which of course we all know is far from the truth. Someone has to do the work for the ceo to make them rich.

If only the ghetto would work jobs rather than prison raping and mayhem. Some do, but the others cost more offseting any good. "A net negative" deep state owns it and you deep state voting horde. Ghetto Names are used asvotes. Last decade we see Illegals have become 2nd level ghetto horde. Wish it weren't so.

 

[MarathonMike]

Filed last month.

I think many people are waiting to see if the blob just forgives all taxes this year. Given his unhinged behavior in the last few weeks and his COS’s unwillingness to do anything about it...its not out of the question.

You got a big tax return, didn't you? Say "Thank You President Trump."

 

[candycorn]

Here's a crazy idea:

Instead of taxing the rich to redistribute to the unwashed masses until they are poor too, no longer successful and creating jobs or feeding the economy, until you run out of their money, has anyone ever considered just going out and working hard, creating their own business, and getting rich for themselves?

Maybe instead, they should be looking to get rich too instead of trying to make the successful poor like them.

It's not like the economy is a pie with only so much pie to go around.

Funny how republicans see getting rich as a GOAL for everyone
While progressives view being rich as just victimizing others.

Republicans want a world of prosperity.
Leftists want a world of poverty.

Oh wait, except for their elite like Nancy.

When you're living paycheck to paycheck, it's hard to save up to start a new business.

Back when we were spreading wealth and the middle class, unions were strong, people had disposable income, and you could have a family with one income. Today? Wages are stagnant, unions are weak, and disposable income on a scale that our grandfathers knew is a thing of the past. Pensions? What are those? Oh yeah, it was a social safety net; a reward for loyalty and consistently working for a company.

Republicans are most responsible for most of the degrading of workers rights, collective bargaining, offshoring jobs by the tens of thousands, etc....

 

[JohnDB]

When you're living paycheck to paycheck, it's hard to save up to start a new business.

Back when we were spreading wealth and the middle class, unions were strong, people had disposable income, and you could have a family with one income. Today? Wages are stagnant, unions are weak, and disposable income on a scale that our grandfathers knew is a thing of the past. Pensions? What are those? Oh yeah, it was a social safety net; a reward for loyalty and consistently working for a company.

Republicans are most responsible for most of the degrading of workers rights, collective bargaining, offshoring jobs by the tens of thousands, etc....

Actually the USA had more $$ in exports than imports with most nations....there was no such thing as a trade deficit.

That's why we were gaining wealth and single income families were not the wealthiest or had the most toys but were still middle class. The wives and women who got jobs during WW2 stayed working and provided $$ for extra toys and luxuries (like televisions, power tools, and camping gear)
Employers liked the women working as they didn't require the same wages as men (⅔-¾ of the same wages as they were seen as only temporary help....they might get pregnant and go home at anytime)

Then during the chaos and mess of Nixon, Ford, and especially during Carter the USA experienced runaway inflation and manufacturing flight out of the USA. Jobs and manufacturing went anywhere outside the USA and our Government did nothing to stop or stem the flow of industry outside our borders. Much went to China and pacific rim....but also South America....

Reagan brought back some manufacturing and started the tech boom by empowering the FTC to break up monopolies of AT&T and later Microsoft. What they should have focused on instead was the stock trading houses (mutual funds)....who were growing in quiet power and currently have financial control over the entire world.

 

[JohnDB]

 

[Captain Caveman]

I have already filed and paid; our taxes went up from last time; and yes, as long as it goes to fully fund social security benefits I say tax the hell out of the wealthy. Inflation+reduced SS payouts will screw Gen X.

If you support loads of tax going to social security benefits, did you donate a few thousand dollars extra over and above your tax bill?

 

[wist43]

You poor thing. I paid quarterlies in 2023 and 2024, got tired of that nonsense. Made a few changes in 2025 and got refunded a good chunk from 2025, and not paying quarterlies this year.

So you just write one big check at the end of the year??

 

[Thinker101]

So you just write one big check at the end of the year??

The quarterlies that I paid in 2025 (based on income of 2024) covered taxes for 2025 and anticipated taxes for 2026 and received a refund.

 

[Anathema]

So are you ready and will you file on time... My tax burden went down this year... but some folks in America want to take more of my money... are you in favor of taxing the rich more?... better take a look at this...

I filed with a tax preparer the first Friday in March. My State refund was the same as last year. My Federal return more than doubled, mostly thanks to the OT Tax Credit.

I had the money from both funds in my bank account by the end of day the next Tuesday. Not a cash advance. Not a loan. The checks from the Stste and Federal Treasuries.

The one frustration was the fact that my employer did not include the Overtime number on my W-2 form. I had to contact my employer’s employee services group to get it. Even they didn’t want to give it to me. They wanted me to log into a private employee benefits websites d look up my last paystub from 2025, then calculate the number from the total OT pay listed. Thankfully a well-placed promise toninvolvectheclocal media got me the number I needed while I was at the tax preparers office.

 

[toobfreak]

Using your logic then you perceive poor folk as a drain on society

How could being poor be anything else? That is the definition of being poor.

which of course we all know is far from the truth. Someone has to do the work for the ceo to make them rich.

Not necessarily, it depends. Besides, you are confusing normal people with the poor. Working for someone else does not make you poor, being impoverished makes you poor.

 

[initforme]

How could being poor be anything else? That is the definition of being poor.


Not necessarily, it depends. Besides, you are confusing normal people with the poor. Working for someone else does not make you poor, being impoverished makes you poor.

So only the wealthy get raises because the working masses getting a raise will drive up prices correct?

 

[toobfreak]

So only the wealthy get raises because the working masses getting a raise will drive up prices correct?

Wow, you've really been brainwashed to despise the rich, like their wealth has somehow made you poor, lazy, and/or talentless?

Do you have any idea that the rich only do what the tax code allows them, they are not "cheating" anyone, only using the tax laws as written by congress including every democrat there.

 

[initforme]

Wow, you've really been brainwashed to despise the rich, like their wealth has somehow made you poor, lazy, and/or talentless?

Do you have any idea that the rich only do what the tax code allows them, they are not "cheating" anyone, only using the tax laws as written by congress including every democrat there.

Nope. You are wrong. My viewpoint is the working masses getting a raise is always a positive thing. Do you not like those american citizens?

 

[toobfreak]

Nope. You are wrong. My viewpoint is the working masses getting a raise is always a positive thing. Do you not like those american citizens?

WTF are you even talking about? First, a view is a view, a judgement, an opinion, there are no right and wrong opinions. Second, why wouldn't it be a positive thing to get a raise? One NEEDS raises to keep up with inflation, otherwise inflation becomes no different than a cut in salary. Third, why wouldn't I like american citizens? Where do you get that crap from?

(HINT: no need to reply).

 

[initforme]

WTF are you even talking about? First, a view is a view, a judgement, an opinion, there are no right and wrong opinions. Second, why wouldn't it be a positive thing to get a raise? One NEEDS raises to keep up with inflation, otherwise inflation becomes no different than a cut in salary. Third, why wouldn't I like american citizens? Where do you get that crap from?

(HINT: no need to reply).

Oh I'm going to reply...I hope I anger folk. Whenever I mention american workers getting raises it always is replied with "that's inflationary". Which of course isn't true, especially supply line workers. Im always happy to see them prosper. Bigly.