The Ticket Refunds

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The Ticket Refunds

...Maybe reading THIS will help you to understand how TAX refunds work.

Five thousand people go to a baseball game, but the game was rained out, therefore a refund was due.

The team was about to mail out the refunds when a group of congressional Liberals called and complained that they should really be sending out the ticket refunds based on the  Democrat National Committee's  interpretation of 'fairness'.

Originally, of course, the refunds were to be paid based on the price each person had paid for the tickets.  Unfortunately that meant most of the refund money would be going to the ticket holders who had purchased the most expensive tickets.  That, according to the liberal ideal, is considered totally unfair, so a decision was made to pay out the refunds as follows: 

1. All people in the $10 seats will get back $15.  
...After all, they have less money to spend on tickets to begin with.  Call it an "Earned Income Ticket Credit."  Persons "earn" it by having few skills, poor work habits, and low ambition, thus keeping them at entry-level wages.

2. All people in the $25 seats will get back $25,
...because it just "seems fair."

3. All people in the $50 seats will get back $1,
...because they already make a lot of money and really don't need a refund.  After all, if they can afford that $50 ticket, they must not be paying nearly enough in taxes.

4. All people in the $75 luxury box seats will each have to pay an additional $25.  
This is called the "Alternative Minimum Ticket Tax".

5. All people walking past the stadium that couldn't afford to buy a ticket for the game each will get a $10 refund,
...even though they didn't pay anything for the tickets originally. They need the most help.  Also known as Affirmative Action.

...NOW do you understand?

...If not, please just contact Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Teddy Kennedy, Sen. John Kerry or Sen. Hillary Clinton.   I am SURE they will be happy to explain the 'fairness' of all this to you.

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Who knew?
...Thankfully, my friend Bill, an experienced tax attorney, keeps me updated from time to time on these complicated matters.

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[thingumbob]

Very clever...I think I'll save it and educate my son's with it.......

Thanks

[SunkenCiv]

milton friedman negative income tax site:freerepublic.com

Google

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Lady Jag]

Democrat politicians are trying to make people believe that hard work and Capitalism are sins.

[Cindy]

HEY, that's very good Seadog Bytes.

[pookie18]

If you can make a link for it & send it to me, I'll rerun it in the toons or in a ping.

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...Thanks!

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RE: "Democrat politicians are trying to make people believe that hard work and Capitalism are sins."

Yes, and did you read that someone was trying to rake W over the coals the other day because he referred to them (collectively) as the 'Democrat Party'(... evidently unable to allow the word 'democratic' to pass his lips with reference to them)?

Sounded like another George-Washington-esque story to me... as in "I cannot tell a lie." ...grin

[Lady Jag]

I did not hear that story. Do you mean to say that Democrats got pissed because Bush didn't say "Democratic Party" instead of "Democrat Party"?

Democrats don't even want their NAME to be legal?!!??

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[ntnychik]

Excellent! Thanks for the ping!

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Yep. It was on Fox News... 'Fair and Balanced' ...grin.

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Hope you liked it, Ma'am.

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...Thanks to Bill, the tax attorney, for that. I just did a little 'packaging'.

[BenLurkin]

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[Lady Jag]

I can't bring myself to believe that Democrats got ticked at not being called Democratic.

I've heard them call themselves the "Democratic Party", but thought it was because they are stupid.

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Who you   callin'   STUPID...???

[Lady Jag]

The jerk in this animation
is not my fault.