The gub'ment shall giveth and shall taketh away.
Anyone ever figure out exactly how much a single $1 gets taxed after it's all said and done?
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| Posted by: Arnoldclone Jul 31 2008, 10:30 AM |
| http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080731/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy Surprise Surprise, I mean dam, with my massive $300 check, I was hopin to buy a new car, some audio equipment, and put a down payment on a new house. But guess not. |
| Posted by: willpiazza31 Jul 31 2008, 10:43 AM |
| All it did was make the oil and gas companies richer. That's where the money went. |
| Posted by: tree33 Jul 31 2008, 10:54 AM |
| I put my $1200 in my savings account. |
| Posted by: willpiazza31 Jul 31 2008, 10:55 AM |
| You have kids? |
| Posted by: tree33 Jul 31 2008, 10:56 AM | ||
Who me? I don't have any kids. I am married though have been for 6 years. |
| Posted by: willpiazza31 Jul 31 2008, 11:03 AM |
| Word. Mine went to the freakin gas company. Did anyone actually buy anything (not necessities) with it? |
| Posted by: Fishdog Jul 31 2008, 11:07 AM |
| I went to Vegas with the chump change they sent me. Chilled around the pool and got tanked, partied up at night. Didn't do much gambling except for the $50 I laid on some 3 game baseball parlay when I was hammered. It was pretty much eeny meeny miney moe. Damn thing ended up paying back like 4 bills plus my bet. |
| Posted by: ShakesAllDay Jul 31 2008, 11:15 AM |
| Ironically, our $1200 check went towards our $1500 real estate tax bill. The gub'ment shall giveth and shall taketh away. Anyone ever figure out exactly how much a single $1 gets taxed after it's all said and done? |
| Posted by: Alan115396 Jul 31 2008, 11:21 AM |
Paid rent with mine  |
| Posted by: Arnoldclone Jul 31 2008, 11:24 AM |
| Exactly, 300-1200, does jack shit...maybe 1200 for a single individual...they should throw out 2gs minimum, then well talk. |
| Posted by: tree33 Jul 31 2008, 11:25 AM | ||
For every dollar $1 you make the Fed Govt. takes $.25 cents of it if you have State tax then your state takes another part of it like mine takes 10% or another dime from my dollar, thats 35 cents already. That is off the top, then when you go and buy groceries the city takes another 8 - 10 cents for every $1 dollar you spend. wow there goes almost 50% of your income.  |
| Posted by: Arnoldclone Jul 31 2008, 11:27 AM | ||||
Jesus. Fuck em. Yeah so thats about 40 cents for me. Bullshit! |
| Posted by: willpiazza31 Jul 31 2008, 11:30 AM |
| Income tax doesn't bother me nearly as much as property taxes. Of course most of you can't relate though since I live in a state that has the highest property taxes in the country. I'd need like 7 of tree's stimulus checks to pay for that shit. |
| Posted by: tree33 Jul 31 2008, 11:33 AM | ||
Wow my property tax last year was $485. |
| Posted by: willpiazza31 Jul 31 2008, 11:38 AM |
| $485?!! Are you fucking serious? |
| Posted by: goodskie Jul 31 2008, 11:41 AM |
| i bought gear. so this is a thread complaining about getting money. wow |
| Posted by: Alan115396 Jul 31 2008, 11:50 AM |
Wtf????????..............   |
| Posted by: tree33 Jul 31 2008, 11:55 AM | ||
Yeah I thought it was high though, guess I have nothing to complain about if your paying over $7,000 a year, OMG. |
| Posted by: willpiazza31 Jul 31 2008, 11:58 AM |
| How can you complain about that? You cell phone bill is probably a lot higher per month. It's more like over $8000. |
| Posted by: tree33 Jul 31 2008, 12:06 PM | ||
LOL, I don't even own a cell phone, FUCK CELL PHONE COMPANIES and there sign a 2 year contract bullshit. I have vonage $24.99 per month every month unlimited min. free long distance and there is no such thing as roaming. |
| Posted by: willpiazza31 Jul 31 2008, 12:12 PM |
| Really? Do you get unlimited texting too? If so that's a steal. I'll get on that shit. |
| Posted by: accent115 Jul 31 2008, 12:15 PM | ||
He doesn't have a cell phone, can you text on your home phone  |
| Posted by: azfittrainer Jul 31 2008, 12:44 PM | ||
Thats funny, my 600 dollar check sure helped me. |
| Posted by: willpiazza31 Jul 31 2008, 01:20 PM | ||||
Oh my bad. I thought Vonage was some kind of pay as you go cell phone. |
| Posted by: Big_Ben Jul 31 2008, 01:33 PM | ||
Exactamundo dude.  |
| Posted by: tree33 Jul 31 2008, 01:41 PM | ||||||
No need for a cell phone, I have an answering machine if they call and I don't answer I am not home, simple as that. Plus I am not that important of a person that people need to get a hold of me anytime they want to. |
| Posted by: cc-10 Jul 31 2008, 02:47 PM |
| i didn't get a check b/c my parents claimed me |
| Posted by: cc-10 Jul 31 2008, 02:57 PM |
| lol i prolly would have lost mine if i got it , came close to losing paychecks back in the day |
| Posted by: Bryan60275 Jul 31 2008, 06:36 PM |
| I SWEAR I saw a bullet for Obama's plan that he thought we needed more economic stimulus checks. Wait i did: http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/09/news/economy/obama_economy_changetour/ "On the first day of what is to be a two-week economic tour around the country, Barack Obama said Monday that lawmakers should inject another $50 billion immediately into the sluggish U.S. economy...Such relief can't wait until the next president takes office. ... That's why I've called for another round of fiscal stimulus, an immediate $50 billion to help those who've been hit hardest by this economic downturn." "He said that he supports the expansion and extension of unemployment benefits, as well as a SECOND ROUND OF REBATE CHECKS." I knew this "throw money at them" approach was idiotic the first time around but Obama wanted to throw MORE money around just weeks before news articles ran saying the stimulus checks were a total failure. Not only does this show piss poor economic planning on Obama's part, but MORE concerning is that this is basically putting out the notion that "If you vote for me, I'll send you money." Can you imagine if this caught on as a part of politics? Politicians one-upping each other on how much "economic stimulus" they'd mail to people if they got elected? The potential for complete disaster is enormous. |
| Posted by: tree33 Jul 31 2008, 06:46 PM | ||
Bottom line people are FUCKING STUPID and will eat this shit up. |
| Posted by: accent115 Jul 31 2008, 08:19 PM |
| start with straight shots then pop bottles? |