Which Do You Dislike More: Paying Taxes or Filling Tax Returns?
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2012/03/29 00:58:56
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As the old adage goes, "nothing is certain but death and taxes." And we hate to bring up bad news, but the latter part of that certainty is almost upon us. April 15 is known for nothing more than "tax day." It's the day we're all supposed to get our paperwork together, submit our documents, and only hope for a substantial amount of cash back in return. And it's around the corner.
But hey, there has to be a bright side to doing your taxes, right? Are you looking forward to a big refund? Or maybe you just like knowing that you're performing your patriotic duties as a U.S. citizen. Whatever the case, we'd love to know more about your opinion on taxes. Take our six-question Tax Survey. Hey, it's better than filling out those documents, right?
But hey, there has to be a bright side to doing your taxes, right? Are you looking forward to a big refund? Or maybe you just like knowing that you're performing your patriotic duties as a U.S. citizen. Whatever the case, we'd love to know more about your opinion on taxes. Take our six-question Tax Survey. Hey, it's better than filling out those documents, right?
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Marcus Clark 2012/03/29 05:32:48Filing Tax Returns
+9Eliminate the government's invasion into your privacy. Support the Fair Tax. http://fairtax.org/
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The whole tax system is more of a Tax Shell Game and terribly out of date. Among other things, It should have been scraped and replaced with the system that I have proposed many years ago. Take a look at my "Bio" page above and encourage anyone you know, who is old enough to vote, to sign onto the Web Site, and Support my Campaign and maybe, when we are sucessfull, soon there will be no "Tax Day" on April 15th. Time is very important, there are only 34 days from 3 April 2012 until the first vote for the AmericansElect Nomination, and they want each Declared Candidate to have 5,000 Support Clicks from each of 10 States by 6 May 2012, I need ALL of your Support. Thank you. Also please Follow me on Twitter @NonPartisanPres
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Two members of our extended family had their tax refunds compromised by identity thieves this year. I will never again wait on a refund.
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The whole tax system is more of a Tax Shell Game and terribly out of date. Among other things, It should have been scraped and replaced with the system that I have proposed many years ago. Take a look at my "Bio" page above and encourage anyone you know, who is old enough to vote, to sign onto the Web Site, and Support my Campaign and maybe, when we are sucessfull, soon there will be no "Tax Day" on April 15th. Time is very important, there are only 34 days from 3 April 2012 until the first vote for the AmericansElect Nomination, and they want each Declared Candidate to have 5,000 Support Clicks from each of 10 States by 6 May 2012, I need ALL of your Support. Thank you. Also please Follow me on Twitter @NonPartisanPres
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The total current tax system is a huge bureaucracy which costs the people of the United States a large fortune to operate and in addition to that there is a major industry which is totally non-productive to the US Economy based on just managing taxes, avoiding taxes and processing taxes, and those people would be much more productive to the Economy doing almost anything else.
I also fall into the income bracket where I can not afford the crooks most 1% Republicans hire to short change us putting us in this mess, so paying the piper it is.
America is presently 'trillions of dollars in debt', and thanks to Obama who doesn't have a birth certificate, and he is probably not an American Citizen (certainly not a natural born American Citizen) either, when Obama signs multiple I.O.U. Bills totaling $21,000,000,000,000.00 (trillion dollars), he is personally not taking any risk of responsibility for the astronomical amount he has signed for, but every American (even those born at this very second) have a debt burden of approximately $50,000.00 straped to their back, and that, even before they are washed and dried-off!
But as I mentioned about the Republicans, that absolute moron George W. Bush said that he would vote for Obama for President, if he had the opportunity. There is "no-difference", not even $.10 of a difference, between a Democrat and a Republican. This goes to show how pitifully wrong the American voters are when they make such a fuss over the two-party candidates. The Democrats and the Republicans (both) want to borrow the same amount of money [MONEY WE DON'T HAVE],
What's your solution for the following year, since all of the rich people you robbed the previous year would have moved to places where you couldn't tax them any more.
Ever hear of John Galt?
The 1% need to pay their share. WE would not be in this mess if they did.
Do you have any data that indicates that the top 1% DO NOT pay what is legally required of them? Even G.E. who paid "zero" corporate taxes in 2010, still filed a tax return of over 18000 pages, costing them over $28 million in compliance, accounting and documenation costs proving that their not paying taxes was "what was legally required of them" do to the tax loopholes and deductions that our government put into the tax code. But the average person cant afford to pay for high priced CPAs and tax attorneys, that's why I'm a FairTax Advocate.
Don't blame the 1%, blame the people that create the laws that favor one group of Americans over another group of Americans.
If the tax regs provide loopholes, why shouldn't those with the ability to discover and exploit those loopholes do so?
On the other hand, why not simplify the entire tax code, eliminate the $480 Billion spent EACH YEAR on compliance, documentation and tax advisory services and expand the universe of tax payers to include anyone that buys something in the U.S? That would include all those that illegally earn their incomes (drug dealers, hookers, foreign tourists, etc.etc.) contribute to our tax base?
Instead of attacking those that know how to generate wealth, to generate production, that know how to provide goods, services and jobs, why not simply get out of the way of these productive 1% of the population and let them spend their time and energy creating the products and services that people obviously want to buy from them. Why not get out of their way of both the rich, the poor and the middle class? Simply move the tax system from attacking income, profits, wages and wealth accrual, to just taxing consumption?
Suddenly Warren Buffett would pay the same tax on that cheeseburger and fries as does his secretary or as you or me? Wouldn't that be fair?
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If the tax regs provide loopholes, why shouldn't those with the ability to discover and exploit those loopholes do so?
On the other hand, why not simplify the entire tax code, eliminate the $480 Billion spent EACH YEAR on compliance, documentation and tax advisory services and expand the universe of tax payers to include anyone that buys something in the U.S? That would include all those that illegally earn their incomes (drug dealers, hookers, foreign tourists, etc.etc.) contribute to our tax base?
Instead of attacking those that know how to generate wealth, to generate production, that know how to provide goods, services and jobs, why not simply get out of the way of these productive 1% of the population and let them spend their time and energy creating the products and services that people obviously want to buy from them. Why not get out of their way of both the rich, the poor and the middle class? Simply move the tax system from attacking income, profits, wages and wealth accrual, to just taxing consumption?
Suddenly Warren Buffett would pay the same tax on that cheeseburger and fries as does his secretary or as you or me? Wouldn't that be fair?
"Since most are in jail for avoiding paying taxes" are we not putting the very people that know how to create wealth in places (i.e. jail) where they can no longer hire people? or buy raw materials? or turn those raw materials into finished products via the labor of their employees? How does having them spend time in jail benefit society?
Inquiring minds want to know.
The only thing that brought Maddoff down was his in ability to recruit new suckers, which is the prime flaw in every Ponzi based system. Unlike the Government's own Ponzi scheme, the Social Security System where government can FORCE you to participate, at least Maddoff had to provide his customers with the benefits he promised, which he did right up until the doo-doo hit the fan.
But if that's your rebuttal, please note that Bernie isn't in jail for not paying his "fair share" of taxes. He is in jail for fraud and malfeasance.
Please feel free to chime in the discussion when you can provide RATIONAL support for your claim that our problems would be solved if the 1% would pay their fair share.
After you stop LYAO, please try to pay close attention because I'm sure you will find this REAL complicated. You may need to take notes...
What I said was: "if you confiscated 100% of all the earnings made by those making $250k or more, you would fund only about two weeks of government, or reduce the $1500 Billion deficit by only $400 billion"
And if you did confiscate 100% of their earnings, there would be no reason for them to go to their jobs. So, YES, they all would quit their jobs and move somewhere that the Plantation Massah could no longer confiscate all that the slaves produced.
BTW, how long would YOU stay at your job if all your earnings were taxed away? Okay, you can go back to LYAO now... :-)
My comment was based upon the extreme of confiscating ALL their earnings above $250k. But even if that was done it would not solve anything regarding "the mess we are in".
The FairTax would have everyone paying the same sales tax on the same good or service. Nobody at Walmart is gonna ask you how much you made last year, or if you own or rent your home, or how many kids you have when you pay for an item at the check out counter. That's why its fair. You, me Oprah, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett or his secretary all will pay the same sales tax for the same item. How much more "fair" do you want?