Posted on 02/14/2002 10:25:16 AM PST by farmall
My wife and I are both public school teachers. We both teach additional day and after school classes. We both teach summer school and I have another job as a security guard. Combined total we earned @ $119,000 in 2001. IRS has already taken @ $19,000. It looks like they want another $ 3-5,000 on 4-15-02.
You had me with you until that last line.
Did you forget that they only withdrew
because they were hated and despised
as so many on this thread appear to feel
about those that have worked to achieve
more than others?
Did you forget that they only withdrew
in hope of a time when society had
destroyed itself enough that they might
be welcomed back to help rebuild a
civilization without the evils of Socialism?
Yes, you are a liar. Unless you'd like to admit you are stupid. No one but an ignoramus would claim that only physical labor is "work." Clearly, you don't have the capacity to be paid for your brain work; you don't produce any.
Sorry for the tangent, folks.
VM, You're right on the "offered" part. But, have you considered that this teacher and many others including presidents are in the 32% tax bracket, but pay 25% or less. "Progressive"??? Yeh. Right. Peace and love, George.
"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." [Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush, 1800.]
Scrap the Code! Scrap the IRS! Abolish the VLWC!
Go to our web site to find out how you can help us do that.
We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.
The point is, all work is work. Professional condescension toward physical labor is as erroneous as the laborer's belittling of professional work. (I'm speaking in general, not implying you are condescending.)
Okay, fair enough. So where the heck does that guy live like a king for $20,000 a year - a Maine log cabin?
I guess everybody else aspiring to the better things in life are just selfish bastards. Too bad we all can't be noble like you a live a life of austerity. Didn't they try that idea in the now collapsed Soviet Union?
Health is definitely a better thing. As is a love for reading and learning. Music, listening or especially playing an instrument. Good food, absolutely. Good, hearty beer and nourishing wine. And did I mention the internet and especially Free Republic?
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..."She glanced back at him. But he was standing oddly
still, staring intently down at the table. In rising,
they had brushed aside the mats of paper lace and she
saw an inscription cut into the plastic of the table top.
Attempts had been made to erase it, but the inscription
remained, as the graven voice of some unknown drunk's
despair:
'Who is John Galt?'
With a brusque movement of anger, she flicked the mat
back to cover the words. He chuckled.
"I can answer it," he said. "I can tell you who is John
Galt."
"Really? Everybody seems to know him, but they never
tell the same story twice."
"They're all true, though - all the stories you've heard
about him."
"Well, what's yours? Who is he?"
"John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After
centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having
brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains
and he withdrew his fire - until the day when men withdraw
their vultures."
page 480, Atlas Shrugged
I'm down with that!
btw - since when are taxes only 25%?? The governmental leeches are legion, and hide in murk all over the place. Not only in terms of hidden fees, licences, and costs passed on to consumers. But the opportunity costs are as of yet uncounted because no one dares.
I fear the vulturemen have only just begun their
feeding frenzy and there is no longer any place
on Earth that they can be avoided for very long.
How much were the taxes our founding fathers fought against? 25% is slavery. 3 months of the year you would work JUST for the feds.
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