Posted on 11/26/2013 2:05:50 PM PST by VRW Conspirator
Turkey Day Talking Points-FReepers Unite
Hey all you keyboard activists! You blog, bump, reply and post. You wordsmith, criticize, edify and GIF. You are overeducated and under-motivated, but now, you can make a bigger difference.
It's time for you to do your part on this Thanksgiving Holiday.
You know all those LIV's (low information voters) and cherished independents you will see this long weekend.
Well, they need a dose of reality to wash down the stuffing and mashed potatoes.
Forget the lectures, the name dropping, the quotes, the diatribes and the references to obscure texts and authors.
Keep it simple and just give them the highlights.
So here they are in no special order:
Obama lied. He said that you can keep your healthcare plan and you won't be able to.
If you heard Obama say that you can keep your doctor then he misled you. You can't keep your doctor.
The president said that you would save an average of $2,500 but you will actually pay more by $2,500 or more. Obama has robbed Medicare to fund Obamacare.
So, now you a tax will be taken for selling a house. Obama's buddies, cronies and campaign donors get an exemption from Obamacare.
Obamacare has death panels with bureaucrats who will decide who lives or dies.
But now is your chance to weigh in, FReepers.
What we said when we said what we said was, pass the mashed potatoes. Period. End of story.
Now, if some enterprising conservative will just collect and publicize what must be the thousands and thousands of individual cases of Stage IV Cancer patients who, in their daily attempt to be positive, focused, and courageous in battling their disease, now have felt the heavy-handed knock-out punch in the stomach dealt to them by each Democrat who, in mass, in 2010, derided and voted AGAINST the Republican bill which anticipated and would have prevented the policy cancellations which now have spoiled those patients' Thanksgiving and Christmas Season joys with family and friends!
The Democrats' deceit and 3-year knowledge of the individual pain and suffering which was going to come to those patients should haunt those Democrat legislators as long as they live!!
Every Democrat running for office should be confronted daily, wherever they go, with facts about real human beings who are being sucker punched daily by their "follow-the-leader" mentality in voting for Obamacare and in refusing to acknowledge the rules which have now doomed their fellow citizens to a tougher fight this Holiday Season.
On cap gains with AGI > $250k
http://www.realtor.org/small_business_health_coverage.nsf/docfiles/government_affairs_invest_inc_tax_broch.pdf/$FILE/government_affairs_invest_inc_tax_broch.pdf
>> So, now you a tax will be taken for selling a house.
That’s one heck of a pithy talking point, right there.
However I might be able to understand it better if it were translated into English.
Okay, so you covered LIVs and cherished independents, but what is to be said to the outright raging liberals? Sometimes they are relatives.
Yeah, right, sure, Mmkay. Tell me how it goes. LOL.
Byte me.
The thing that pees off raging liberals the most is when you tell them you plan to avoid the consequences of their little Utopia when it all comes crashing down around their ears.
Scroll, meeship, zumplix iffi-hiccup-weblum.
How's that?
VRW C: Somebody set up us the bomb.
N T: All your pith are belong to us.
VRW C: Byte me.
...etc...
>> How’s that?
You’re missing a semicolon after “zumplix”. Other than that, much better.
I think that a whole lot of people have already found out that they can’t keep their doctors and/or their health plans, and that health insurance has gotten much more expensive (or unavailable) for them.
Especially if they already know that you’ve always been against obama and obamacare, listen to their stories with love and compassion, not with gloating. And try to help them if you can.
Maybe they’ll end up voting for Ted Cruz next time!
Could someone give me particulars on the tax for selling house? We are in the process of selling, but likely won’t close until after first of year.
Thankfully, all of my liberal relatives live 1,500 miles away in California. Holidays are peaceful and joyous in my house.
It's actually one of the first bits of bad news that was discovered in the Obamacare bill. It was talked about extensively here, a couple of years ago.
I believe you'll owe the feds 3.8% of the sale price of your house.
Lots-a libs in my family. When they start spouting off, I usually just say, “That’s interesting! What’s your source?”
Shuts ‘em right up.
>> I believe you’ll owe the feds 3.8% of the sale price of your house.
Not that the ACA isn’t a tax grab... but that statement is misinformation.
In general, you’ll owe Medicare tax on many sources of so-called “unearned income” that previously incurred no such “medicare” tax. That includes dividend income, interest income, and capital gains income.
However, it only kicks in at adjusted gross income (AGI) of $200K ($250K for married couples).
Furthermore, if your property is your primary residence, gains from the sale of your primary residence is exempt from capital gains tax (as well as this extra 3.8%) up to $250,000 GAIN for singles (or $500,000 gain for married couples).
Note that in any event, the 3.8% tax could only possibly apply to GAINS from sale — not the gross “sale price of your home”, as stated in the misinformation.
Here is a link to a document that may be helpful: http://health.burgess.house.gov/uploadedfiles/one_page_on_unearned_medicare_tax.pdf
Thanks, NT. It's been a long time since I read the details of that Obamacare tax on real estate transactions. I did try to qualify my statement with, "I believe..." I should have just said that I didn't remember the exact details.
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