Eliminate all forms of income tax and replace it with the Fair Tax on new goods.
Our money system is based on fractional reserve banking and government debt. The principle is meant to be rolled over in perpetuity; the income tax is meant only to pay the interest. If it sounds insane, it’s because it is insane.
While 130k is hardly rich (wealth is determined by assets not income) The median household income in the US typicly runs about 65k.
Maybe we married and in love can get divorced, one apply for food stamps, the other have an income under the radar and let the “married” gays pay for it all.
I hear ya, and identify with a lot of what you say.
I must say, however, you paid H and R Block $610 to prepare your income tax returns???? That seems pretty costly for the services rendered by a tax preparer such as Block.
I have a somewhat complicated personal situation, and paid a CPA about $300. I just mention it because H and R Block are not certified public accountants, and if you have any complications in your finances and taxes, you really should be using a CPA.
Of course, the reason anybody pays a tax preparer is because the tax code is too darn complicated in the first place.
If you want an income tax, a flat tax is the only way to avoid it. Your wife’s employer withholds the same whether she is married or not, as does yours. If you work overtime, same percentage. If you moonlight, your second employer doesn’t have to know he’s a second, its the same percentage.
To go further, there is no reason for the individual to have to deal with his income tax at all. Your employer withholds the tax per the IRS chart, end of story. No citizen should ever have to deal with “filing” aside from the form he fills out the day he hires on. If you want deductions for children, fine, but you notify your employer, he adjusts the amount withheld, end of story.
If by some weird mistake the employer holds out too much this month, he holds out a little less next month, though how that could happen is hard to imagine. In any case, the company has the accountants, not the individual worker, so the individual should never have to deal with it.
If you are an independent contractor, you’re a business and you have an accountant. If you’re an employee, you aren’t and you don’t.
The annual April 15 madness is pointless and unnecessary.
Why do gays want to get married again?
Ah April 15th - the day the greedy, cheating taxpayer gets his just deserts.
/sarc
This is an important article because of it's link between marriage and taxes in general.
As everyone is well aware, gay marriage is an explosive issue in this country. But who stops to realize that what everyone is arguing about is actually a tax status?
Go back a hundred years. You got married in a church, or under the auspices of your religion, and that was it. It had NOTHING to do with government approval, let alone a requirement you to receive a GOVERNMENT LICENSE to be married. The very thought would have had people marching in the streets.
But with the income tax, government claimed the power to approve or disapprove the "tax legitimacy" of literally anything in your life - and so, legitimacy had to be affirmed by the government to exist. That affirmation is called a "license." And you have to request it, be judged by a bureaucrat, and pay for it - IF you're allowed to have it.
As a result, there are two types of people left in America. Those who recognize that this denial of their very humanity is profoundly evil - and those who don't.
That wouldn't be "fair" at all. For all we know, the man earning $200,000 could be working twice as hard, or he might be working twice as many hours. Why should he have to pay a higher tax rate?
Hyperbolic headline + unreadable opening paragraph = why bother?
Find a good CPA. I get mine done for 145 dollars, she had been doing my taxes for 18 years.......I file long form with deductions not the short form......
all I know is that if the leftists are successful in making homosexual “marriage” a reality and a civil right, then those jokers better be paying the marriage penalty tax as well......whats good for the goose is good for the gander...
A lot of what you say is something many especially the longer married types do consider. I was talking to someone the other day who said just your thesis.
Here is another one....when someone has a disease, especially Alzheimer’s, often now elder care attorneys are suggesting that a couple divorce in order to preserve assets so that the ill person can qualify for medical or VA aid and assistance..nice huh.
btt