Posted on 04/01/2020 6:07:44 PM PDT by justme4now
You get free money, they get free money, neighbor gets free money .... ridiculous. There is no free money. Why do SS recipients get mote money. They were not impacted. Why does my neighbor get free money if they haven’t been impacted. This idea that uncle Sugar sending out checks to all the people who don’t pay tax anyway is stupid. How about send everyone 10% of taxes paid back including payroll taxes. Free money sucks.
I see class warfare is alive and well in this thread.
To the poster who thinks that SS is not taxable income, that is incorrect.
SS is not subject to SS taxes. 80% of SS IS subject to federal income tax laws. Whether one pays taxes on it depends on what one’s *total* income is when that 80% is included in one’s earned income.
I’m not arguing the right or wrong of that - only telling you the law.
What all of you should appreciate is that the President told that A Hole reporter that illegal aliens are not entitled to free money because they are here illegally and that we are citizens losing our jobs. IOW, the first President with the stones to actually say out loud that Americans come before illegal aliens. And he said it at a nationally televised press conference to a crapload of hostile, leftist “reporters”.
As I understand it, the “free” money will be taxed as earned income. So the sum of the money you receive is NOT what you are really getting. Local, state, and federal taxes will take their bite. Just more smoke and mirrors fooling you into thinking your are getting more than you really are. Why not make the checks $300 less and not taxable? For the same reason most people think paying Amazon $35 and free shipping is a better deal than paying $30 and $5 shipping. Duh.
Geeze, I give up on you. You don’t get my point. You obviously just want money from the treasury. So enjoy your 1200 bucks. Glad it makes your grand kids happy to help screw everyone else over in the long run.
Thanks for the information.
SS was never intended to supplement anyones income,PERIOD
I get SSDI so that’s good to know.
Not the book money. They can take what they dare but my books is off limits!!
Why are they getting check???
They should go to the unemployed...
Why are working people getting checks
Do welfare people get checks
Do government worker get check also
This is insane
No, they're just the ones that are most likely to die from the virus, because most of them have other health issues they have been getting treatment for.
The Pelousy/Ditch raid on the Treasury is a done deal. It's for the grandkids. They might as well get a mere pittance of what has been borrowed on their account.
Congress has screwed over everybody to benefit the Kennedy Center, NPR and PBS and themselves.
Good idea. One we are considering as well.
News you can lose or use as the case may be. But I rather get $1200 worth of Gov’t cheese than a Gov’t check.
Now the scammers will be coming with phone calls saying there seems to be a problem with your banking details and we need your SS and bank routing numbers and account ... etc
All members of the 535 Club are still receiving checks.
I’m unaware of a single one giving their check back or to charity.
I'm with you. They can rip the clothes off my back, but the only way they'll get my books is to rip them from my dead, cold fingers.
So you’re the poor bastard I’ve heard about all my life. I’d raise a glass but my booze money ran out weeks ago.
The Constitution does not ban hate speech.
It does not separate the population into a welter of minorities, with different "rights" depending on your race.
It actually ALLOWS mere proles to own guns, which is a threat to the Party. The All Knowing Government MUST have the ability to disarm the people, on a whim.
It does not demand, at gunpoint, that everyone can be no stronger, brighter, richer, than anyone else. Absolute equality.
There is no provision for basic wants, like health care, housing, public transportation, environmental fads, and advanced, useless, hobby education.
We're doomed. It was a good run, but this country is f%cked. We're rats, deserting the sinking ship, and this mini payment is just a crumb of cheese.
my sister is a NYS retired teacher under the old system...she makes a nice pension and does not pay state tax on it....is it true other states could tax it?...she’s a part time Florida resident as well...
Your opinion is the same as mine exactly. I’m also in my first year of SS. I can see helping furloughed workers who are out of a paychheck through no fault of their own. Kinda like unemployment insurance, really.
To just give people who weren’t even put out of work checks form the treasury makes no sense to me at all. NONE, unless they want to cause a collapse of our economy right before a presidential election. Then it fits their agenda doesn’t it?
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