"The Government do take a bite, don't she?"
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.
What portion of the money went to those who aren’t working but are in seattle/portland burning and breaking things?
The more you make, the more they take
>>I HATE this smarmy phrase, teachable moment.<<
If you precede it with an “ahem” like Rush does, it is OK.
Work harder, people! Millions on welfare depend on you!
teachable moment - no
wake-up call - yes
reality check - yes
My favorite line—”but I already got a social security number”.
Time for the young man to read some Ayn Rand!
Lol. My first born came home at 15 with first paycheck,furious, and asked me if fica was fuxking income confiscation association.
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.
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.
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!
“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.”
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All depends on what you define as “making it”.
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.
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.
“If the kid is interested in making money without paying taxes,”
I hope he doesn’t start selling drugs.
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.
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.
SHE is doing well and thinks for herself.
Rush ‘invented ‘ the phrase years and years ago
"The Government do take a bite, don't she?"
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