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2-14-02 | farmall

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.


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To: higgmeister
Somehow "Simpler Life" smacks of the Randist withdrawal from society in Atlas Shrugged.

I also forgot to point out that Galt's Gulch
was not a "Simpler Life" as most might
assume.

It was simple because the producers no
longer had to put up with the envious
users that wished to destroy them.

It was intended to be an enclave to carry
humanity beyond the New Dark Age in much
the same way that the early monastic orders
patiently copied their illuminated manuscripts
for the future benefit of civilization.

221 posted on 02/14/2002 6:31:05 PM PST by higgmeister
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To: farmall
My wife and I are both public school teachers.

For this reason alone I have no respect for you. You deserve the IRS. You are one in the same.

222 posted on 02/14/2002 6:33:19 PM PST by southern rock
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To: southern rock
You really have a personal problem. Shame on you.
223 posted on 02/14/2002 6:44:40 PM PST by JudyB1938
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To: JudyB1938
What are you talking about??

I was really just kidding around, but honestly, you do not see the irony in a public school teacher bitchin' about the IRS??? What the heck is this website all about anyway?? Don't you even know why you are here? Come on, It's funny if you think about it!!

224 posted on 02/14/2002 6:59:25 PM PST by southern rock
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To: MeeknMing
Thank-you, but you know, some folks would take offense at that jab and accuse me of having a Mena streak.
225 posted on 02/14/2002 6:59:56 PM PST by KirkandBurke
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To: biblewonk
WOW! My wife and I have 8 kids and one income. Our total is around 57K and we paid about 3K in taxes. We expect to get it all back, again, plus another 3K in child tax credits.

Sweet Jesus, I pray this is a joke.

226 posted on 02/14/2002 7:21:46 PM PST by golder
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To: southern rock
You never sound like you are "kidding around". And I take umbrage at your remark. One of my daughters teaches 4th grade, and one of my granddaughters will soon graduate to become a high school band teacher. They have the intelligence to have been anything they chose (in fact, my granddaughter tests out at 172 on IQ tests), but they chose teaching.

I am proud of my daughter. She teaches inner-city kids whose families have been moved en masse to her area. She really cares about them, too, and tries to inspire them to overcome their disadvantages. So when I keep seeing stupid remarks about teachers, it really makes me sad.

227 posted on 02/14/2002 7:22:15 PM PST by JudyB1938
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To: goodieD
even with the 25 grand you pay in taxes.

Please read more carefully, these government workers pay no taxes, or very damn little. So, no taxes, and as a bonus, no productive work.

P.S. Thanks for the "job" on our kids.

228 posted on 02/14/2002 7:30:58 PM PST by golder
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To: JudyB1938
You never sound like you are "kidding around". And I take umbrage at your remark.

Well, T.S.

O.K. I am no longer kidding around. Seriously, If you work for the public school system, you are part of the problem, not the solution. If you work for the public school system, your job ought not to exist, you are just bloodsucking my money for communist purposes. No "kidding" at all!!

229 posted on 02/14/2002 7:33:23 PM PST by southern rock
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To: farmall
. . . since my wife and i are both public school teachers we pay @ $450.00 a month to send our last of 4 kids to a private school.

Do you realize what you just said? Since you and your wife are public school teachers you send your own children to private school.

As far as your taxes, you have my deepest sympathy. I would suggest consulting with a professional. Take out a mortgage, give more to charity, buy an income property--these are some ways to cut your taxes, although not all are risk-free. It is our patriotic duty to deny government as much money as possible. Aggressive tax avoidance is one way. There are many perfectly legal ways to send less of your money to Washington and you should explore them all, preferably with a professional. There is absolutely no reason you should be paying that much in tax.

230 posted on 02/14/2002 7:41:50 PM PST by WillaJohns
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To: southern rock
I think you need to go back to that rock you crawled out from under. You have no idea of reality. You just parrot what you read.

My children are college-educated professionals who went through the public school system first. They are doing well. They also have fine, stable families. I think you are just jealous. When was the last time YOU went to the slopes?

231 posted on 02/14/2002 7:43:35 PM PST by JudyB1938
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To: JudyB1938
Honestly, I identify with you. You are originally from Oklahoma. I'm from Texas. Most Freepers here would say I'm nuts for sugesting this, but please, please, please, move NORTH!!. Yes!! Northeast if possible. Move to the blue zone.

What !!??!! You say?? Move to the blue zone??!!??

Yes. I recommend this. You see, you are sheltered!. I was sheltered once. My area of America was sheltered. OUR public schools were "O.K." "WE" didn't have ""New York" problems. Therefore government schools were legitimite in my eyes. It was O.K. to have Gov't schols as long as our local schol board was "conservative".

Well you know what??? MY FOOT!!!!

Thank God that I am temporarily living in the Northeast. It has been a revelation!! I might have never realized how demonic gov't schools are.

Please start thinking OBJECTIVELY!!. Please think philisophically, not pragmatically.

232 posted on 02/14/2002 8:07:02 PM PST by southern rock
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To: southern rock
I did better than that. I moved to Las Vegas in 1969. And, yes, THIS is where my children went to school. They also went to church here, believe it or not. So it isn't WHERE a person lives, it's what they do with what they have. But I do understand what you are saying to me. Sorry my tail feathers got into a ruff. :0)
233 posted on 02/14/2002 8:45:56 PM PST by JudyB1938
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To: biblewonk
8 offspring...

Ah yes the rest of us are subsidizing your family. Look at all the school taxes that will have to be collected to educate those babes too! I can't imagine why those that use less resources have to subsidize those that use more. Another flaw like the graduated tax. Maybe it's to buy more votes down the line...What happens when there becomes more takers than givers? At what point should tax credits/welfare become a disincentive for having more mouths to feed? Ever hear of birth control or is it against your religion?

234 posted on 02/14/2002 9:07:51 PM PST by rolling_stone
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To: higgmeister
Did you forget...

Well...it was a thick, thick, spread it like peanut butter message of a book. Forgive me. I liked it too. My favorite character was the pirate.

When the idiots in power decide to submerge civilization for the sake of their selfish, grasping, corrupt, inept, and pointless bureaucratic self-interest, perhaps we can give libertarian feudalism a go...

235 posted on 02/14/2002 10:36:50 PM PST by no-s
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To: higgmeister
...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...

Then our only recourse - if the human race is to survive - is for the productive people; the entreprenuers; the small business owners; the hard-working employees; THE PRODUCERS OF EARTH - TO STOP PRODUCING and/or contributing to the survival of the parasites.

Ayn Rands prophecy is coming true before our eyes.

Are you aware that the number of US adults who receive money from the government (via whatever manner) now outnumber those who do NOT receive any money from the government by between 2-to-1 and 5-to-1 (it depends on the numbers you choose to use / believe)?

Just as communism / socialism collapsed in the Soviet Union, so will 'socialism-light' collapse in the US / Europe / elsewhere. Witness Argentina. It's only a (short) matter of time.

(Re)Read Atlas Shrugged and draw your own conclusions.

236 posted on 02/14/2002 10:45:50 PM PST by XLurk
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To: MeeknMing
RICHard Meek :o)

No, you're just a Dick </kidding>

237 posted on 02/14/2002 10:48:18 PM PST by xm177e2
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To: DoughtyOne
Ahhhh this guy is about as rich as 6 foot up a bulls @ss ! This is the problem in America today IMHO.......all see their glass as either half full or half empty............

Has anyone considered the glass may just be too big ? Live well, live within your means and if ya can't work harder and spend less.

Sorry D1.....just my oh early thirty AM frugal rant ! Stay Safe !

238 posted on 02/14/2002 10:55:48 PM PST by Squantos
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To: xm177e2
You won't have me to kick around any more!

Tricky Dick

239 posted on 02/15/2002 1:15:52 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
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To: KirkandBurke
Thank-you, but you know, some folks would take offense at that jab and accuse me of having a Mena streak.










i got away wif murder, rape and
obstruction ov justice. . .
i so proud o' myself! !



240 posted on 02/15/2002 1:35:54 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
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