Happy Tax Day!
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strollingbones
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i just finished my taxes...well except for the paying
Si modo
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I've decided that I don't like ravi very much.
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I've decided that I don't like ravi very much.
She is evil. But, she wears cool hats.... and.... she has a gift for making people meltdown. It balances out.
Si modo
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What IS up with the hats? She getting stoked for the royal wedding or something?I've decided that I don't like ravi very much.
She is evil. But, she wears cool hats.... and.... she has a gift for making people meltdown. It balances out.
Valerie
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I've decided that I don't like ravi very much.
She is evil. But, she wears cool hats.... and.... she has a gift for making people meltdown. It balances out.
Some people's Ravi obsession can get rather taxing...
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It's actually quite appropriate that they pushed Tax Day back to today....
See, here in the Northeast we have a Holiday today. A holiday to celebrate citizens gunning down soldiers of The Crown and chasing their cowardly little yellow-bellied and red coated asses all the way from North Bridge in Concord back to Cambridge and across the Charles River into Boston itself; from which they would never again venture forth until they evacuated by sea on March 16th of 1776.
Yep. Today is Patriot's Day. Boston Marathon. State Holiday. 11am Red Sox game. And the memory of killing soldiers loyal to a government that no longer held any value to the people it was supposed to govern. Hopefully we'll see ANOTHER Patriot's Day VERY SOON.
See, here in the Northeast we have a Holiday today. A holiday to celebrate citizens gunning down soldiers of The Crown and chasing their cowardly little yellow-bellied and red coated asses all the way from North Bridge in Concord back to Cambridge and across the Charles River into Boston itself; from which they would never again venture forth until they evacuated by sea on March 16th of 1776.
Yep. Today is Patriot's Day. Boston Marathon. State Holiday. 11am Red Sox game. And the memory of killing soldiers loyal to a government that no longer held any value to the people it was supposed to govern. Hopefully we'll see ANOTHER Patriot's Day VERY SOON.
California Girl
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What IS up with the hats? She getting stoked for the royal wedding or something?I've decided that I don't like ravi very much.
She is evil. But, she wears cool hats.... and.... she has a gift for making people meltdown. It balances out.
I believe she has an invite.
I'm hoping I'll be her +1.
I have a hat, and matching shoes.
Valerie
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So I said to him, let’s put tax cuts in terms everyone can understand. Suppose that every day 10 men go to a restaurant for dinner. The bill for all ten comes to $100. If it was paid the way we pay our taxes, the first four men would pay nothing; the fifth would pay $1; the sixth would pay $3; the seventh $7; the eighth $12; the ninth $18. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.
The 10 men ate dinner in the restaurant every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement until the owner threw them a curve. “Since you are all such good customers”, he said, “I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily meal by $20”. Now dinner for the 10 only costs $80. The first four are unaffected. They still eat for free. Can you figure out how to divvy up the $20 savings among the remaining six so that everyone gets his fair share? The men realize that $20 divided by 6 is $3.33, but if they subtract that from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would end up being paid to eat their meal.
The restaurant owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by roughly the same percentage, being sure to give each a break, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay. And so now the fifth man paid nothing, the sixth pitched in $2, the seventh paid $5, the eighth paid $9, the ninth paid $12, leaving the tenth man with a bill of $52 instead of $59.
Outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings. “I only got a dollar out of the $20,” complained the sixth man, pointing to the tenth, “and he got $7!”. “Yeah, that’s right,” exclaimed the fifth man. “I only saved a dollar, too. It’s unfair that he got seven times more than me!”. “That’s true,” shouted the seventh man, “why should he get $7 back when I got only $2? The wealthy get all the breaks!”. “Wait a minute,” yelled the first four men in unison. “We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!”
The nine men surrounded the tenth man and beat him up. The next night he didn’t show up for dinner, so the nine sat down and ate without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They were $52 short! And that, boys, girls and college instructors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes should get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up at the table any more.
http://tomhuff.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/lets-put-tax-cuts-in-terms-everyone-can-understand/ Link Added
The 10 men ate dinner in the restaurant every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement until the owner threw them a curve. “Since you are all such good customers”, he said, “I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily meal by $20”. Now dinner for the 10 only costs $80. The first four are unaffected. They still eat for free. Can you figure out how to divvy up the $20 savings among the remaining six so that everyone gets his fair share? The men realize that $20 divided by 6 is $3.33, but if they subtract that from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would end up being paid to eat their meal.
The restaurant owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by roughly the same percentage, being sure to give each a break, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay. And so now the fifth man paid nothing, the sixth pitched in $2, the seventh paid $5, the eighth paid $9, the ninth paid $12, leaving the tenth man with a bill of $52 instead of $59.
Outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings. “I only got a dollar out of the $20,” complained the sixth man, pointing to the tenth, “and he got $7!”. “Yeah, that’s right,” exclaimed the fifth man. “I only saved a dollar, too. It’s unfair that he got seven times more than me!”. “That’s true,” shouted the seventh man, “why should he get $7 back when I got only $2? The wealthy get all the breaks!”. “Wait a minute,” yelled the first four men in unison. “We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!”
The nine men surrounded the tenth man and beat him up. The next night he didn’t show up for dinner, so the nine sat down and ate without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They were $52 short! And that, boys, girls and college instructors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes should get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up at the table any more.
http://tomhuff.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/lets-put-tax-cuts-in-terms-everyone-can-understand/ Link Added
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xsited1
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I've decided that I don't like ravi very much.
Ravi is the best troll on USMB. I give her Kudos for that.
BTW, Tax Freedom Day with the deficit factored in is May 23.
So keep working for the government you slaves!
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