[Kudsman]

Put 10 skittles in front of him. Tell them they are his reward for being a good boy. Then take 5 of them and say Kamala insists you give those 5 to the kid who cheats off his test paper.

[No name given]

He’ll definitely get the message then.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Put 10 skittles in front of him. Tell them they are his reward for being a good boy. Then take 5 of them and say Kamala insists you give those 5 to the kid who cheats off his test paper.

Good but not quite far enough.

Put out ten dollars in various bills and coins. Now tell him that each dollar represents $10,000 in income. Now you will figure out your taxes.

First you remove 12.4 and 2.9 of the total. (That would be a $1.53 for those of you playing along at home) Tell him that those are the SS and Medicare tax and they come off from the first dollar that you earn.

This was quite a surprise to Oldest Daughter when she had to file because she assumed that with her small earnings taxes would not apply to her. Hehehehe. No.

Now he does get a deduction of $14,600. So he can subtract that out. ($1.46) Now $11,925 is taxed at ten percent and $48,475 is taxed at 12%.

Ask him to figure out what he owes in taxes.

Tell him that he will be grounded if he makes a mistake.

Now tell him that you are going to take most of his taxes for yourself but you are going to give his sister a fraction of a piece of candy and say that was "what the taxes were for" even though you kept most of it.

[Mathews]

Wouldn’t that be more like socialism? I used monopoly money and the hotels to explain it.

[ridesthemiles]

PERFECT

[kiryandil]

Put 10 skittles in front of him. Tell them they are his reward for being a good boy. Then take 5 of them and say Kamala insists you give those 5 to the kid who cheats off his test paper.

Excellent.

[Jane Long]

And, bonus skittles to the cheater if he is an ILLEGAL INVADER.

[SisterK]

LOL
Skittle math is real