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THIS KID IS EXCITED FOR HIS FIRST PAYCHECK...UNTIL HIS FIRST LESSON ON TAXES
Louder With Crowder ^ | 6/26/20 | BRODIGAN

Posted on 07/30/2020 12:06:59 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

We are all this kid. There is not a single person reading this post right now who has not shared this experience. Some of us may have shared this experience longer ago than others, but the experience was still shared. You get your first job. For me, it was McDonalds. It's your first time making money outside of getting an allowance from your parents. It's your first taste of adulthood.
You do the math in your head, multiplying how much you are making by how many hours you worked. Two weeks later, you get your first paycheck. You're happy. You're excited. Then unfortunately, you notice less money than you were expecting
I wish I could tell this kid it gets better. But the next lesson is finding out what your taxes get spent on. SPOILER: It's not bridges and roads, as leftist douchebags smugly say (see ANDREW YANG WANTS TO TAX COW FARTS TO CONTROL YOUR DIET and TRUMP TO STRUGGLING PARENTS: IF TEACHERS REFUSE TO DO THEIR JOB, YOU SHOULD HAVE YOUR SCHOOL TAXES REFUNDED). Then one day, you find yourself self-employed. It's your job to physically take the taxes out of your own paycheck and with each quarterly check you send to the government you find yourself becoming more and more of a libertarian whack job. Eventually, you die. And your family gets taxed for that.

My advice to this kid is to take those warm fuzzies he had before he opened the envelope and hang on them for as long as he can. More importantly, congratulations on the first job! Jokes about taxes aside, there are few better feelings.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Government; Society
KEYWORDS: blexit; realitycheck; taxes; walkaway
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Video and tweets at link. This young man has a, I HATE this smarmy phrase, teachable moment. What's frustrating and sad, he's probably old enough to vote and chances are he'll support the very party screwing him over. #walkaway #blexit
1 posted on 07/30/2020 12:06:59 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

What portion of the money went to those who aren’t working but are in seattle/portland burning and breaking things?


2 posted on 07/30/2020 12:11:43 PM PDT by I want the USA back (BLM is a violent marxist movement designed to overthrow the US constitutional form of government.)
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To: Impala64ssa

The more you make, the more they take


3 posted on 07/30/2020 12:12:14 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Impala64ssa

>>I HATE this smarmy phrase, teachable moment.<<

If you precede it with an “ahem” like Rush does, it is OK.


4 posted on 07/30/2020 12:12:59 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: Impala64ssa

Work harder, people! Millions on welfare depend on you!


5 posted on 07/30/2020 12:13:09 PM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest
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To: Impala64ssa

teachable moment - no

wake-up call - yes

reality check - yes


6 posted on 07/30/2020 12:14:49 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Impala64ssa

My favorite line—”but I already got a social security number”.

Time for the young man to read some Ayn Rand!


7 posted on 07/30/2020 12:17:52 PM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Lol. My first born came home at 15 with first paycheck,furious, and asked me if fica was fuxking income confiscation association.


8 posted on 07/30/2020 12:17:57 PM PDT by amihow
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To: Impala64ssa

Although not my first experience, but when I started out in construction as a Journeyman pipefitter in 1979 our scale was $16.64/hour. Jimmah Cahtah was president and the Feds had tax brackets as high a 70+%.

I was in the 50+% bracket as my fed taxes were about $340/week! Those were the big anti-tax, free-American citizen days.


9 posted on 07/30/2020 12:18:10 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: Impala64ssa

If the kid is interested in making money without paying taxes, he needs to form a corporation.

The idea that a working man can make it in the US was quaint when I was growing up, now it just sounds like some b.s story from some college preppy.

In other words, unbelievable.


10 posted on 07/30/2020 12:18:37 PM PDT by CharleysPride (Triton 2038!)
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To: amihow

LOL....I sure wish that had been my first reaction...don’t care if my mouth got washed with soap!

Kudo’s to your kid, I hope he is doing well!


11 posted on 07/30/2020 12:32:21 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: CharleysPride

“The idea that a working man can make it in the US was quaint when I was growing up, now it just sounds like some b.s story from some college preppy.”

All depends on what you define as “making it”.


12 posted on 07/30/2020 12:34:28 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Impala64ssa

Try THIS one on:

I had the same sinking feeling in my stomach, too. But it was worse. My first job was in a steel mill and the union thugs helped themselves to my pay, too.


13 posted on 07/30/2020 12:35:16 PM PDT by SMARTY (Freedom from effort in the present means effort has been stored up, in the past. T Roosevelt)
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To: Impala64ssa

My first job paying hourly wages was working as a counterman at a concession on Rockaway Beach, buck-sixty an hour, minimum wage. I had taxes and Social Security withheld. Legally I was too young, at fifteen, but I was glad to have the job and the pay. I didn’t really believe my boss was sending in the withholding, but many years later, I saw my lifetime earnings statement from the Social Security Administration and that job showed up.


14 posted on 07/30/2020 12:36:26 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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To: CharleysPride

“If the kid is interested in making money without paying taxes,”

I hope he doesn’t start selling drugs.


15 posted on 07/30/2020 12:38:28 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: SMARTY

I worked for the USPS. Union dues are optional. I was willing to pay them I were allowed to opt out of the political contributions portion of those dues (Beck Decision). Because withholding dues are optional, they don’t do that, it’s all or nothing, so I chose NOTHING.


16 posted on 07/30/2020 12:40:02 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: amihow

Tell him he is “successful” when he makes enough to stop paying Social security.

That was a happy day when it first happened to me. I had no idea that was possible and called payroll. The payroll woman laughed and told me it was cute that I made that much salary, yet knew so little.

I showed her by getting to that point in March the next year.


17 posted on 07/30/2020 12:46:04 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: mdmathis6

SHE is doing well and thinks for herself.


18 posted on 07/30/2020 12:46:13 PM PDT by amihow
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To: freedumb2003

Rush ‘invented ‘ the phrase years and years ago


19 posted on 07/30/2020 12:47:50 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Impala64ssa

"The Government do take a bite, don't she?"

20 posted on 07/30/2020 12:49:18 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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