Comments on: Thoughts on tax day https://thenewneo.com/2014/04/15/thoughts-on-tax-day-3/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 16 Apr 2014 02:45:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Ymarsakar https://thenewneo.com/2014/04/15/thoughts-on-tax-day-3/#comment-759599 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 02:45:01 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38103#comment-759599 Same as Death Day, although not quite.

]]> By: southpaw https://thenewneo.com/2014/04/15/thoughts-on-tax-day-3/#comment-759547 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 00:27:24 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38103#comment-759547 Don Carlos – you are correct. However the United Way has done a great job of making CEOs into advocates for their cause by celebrating the generosity of their organization, and giving them good publicity. The upshot is a month of arm twisting and peer pressure thru various corporate sponsored activities to get employee donations. There are consequences.

Mike –
Thx for the spike in blood pressure. I really like the compromise rationalization: …”there could be a middle ground that prevents families who fake children or those who don’t live in the U.S. from receiving the benefits, but still allows legal citizens with illegal parents to benefit from the payment.
So it’s ok to give illegal aliens refunds if they really do have children, just not the ones who fake it. Well sure that makes great sense. Any reasonable republican should realize it encourages illegal aliens to have more kids, who they can claim on their taxes for the job they aren’t supposed to have here.

]]> By: Cornhead https://thenewneo.com/2014/04/15/thoughts-on-tax-day-3/#comment-759502 Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:47:18 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38103#comment-759502 Neo:

Rumsfeld agrees with me. See his Twitter account.

And I sure your Dad was a crackerjack accountant.

]]> By: Mike https://thenewneo.com/2014/04/15/thoughts-on-tax-day-3/#comment-759458 Tue, 15 Apr 2014 21:12:54 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38103#comment-759458 Hey Southpaw- I agree with you 100% but in case you didn’t know it- This will really get your goat. And don’t expect the gutless republicks to change the system. After all, it isn’t their money. 🙁

“People who are not legally authorized to work in the United States claimed more than $4 billion from the additional child tax credit in processing year 2010, according to a 2011 inspector general report.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/12/republicans-vow-to-cut-off-child-tax-credit-for-il/?page=all

]]> By: shirley elizabeth https://thenewneo.com/2014/04/15/thoughts-on-tax-day-3/#comment-759429 Tue, 15 Apr 2014 19:54:37 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38103#comment-759429 This has been the worst season for us: sixteen hour days for my husband all week long, my working for a firm that lost four people during the year and left us in a lurch, two neglected toddlers and a nasty first trimester…we are very glad to be done. My husband’s company is taking them to steak and lobster for lunch today, then we’re headed off for a much needed beach vacation.

]]> By: roc scssrs https://thenewneo.com/2014/04/15/thoughts-on-tax-day-3/#comment-759417 Tue, 15 Apr 2014 19:35:40 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38103#comment-759417 My father spent his Saturdays making deliveries for his brother’s wholesale butchering business. When I was older I got to ride with him in a dark blue Dodge panel truck all over Philadelphia, from the docks to the delis on Marshall St. Saturday night I tallied the receipts, carbon copies of course, and I got to run the big greasy clunky mechanical adding machine. Good times! But I still don’t like doing taxes.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2014/04/15/thoughts-on-tax-day-3/#comment-759399 Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:52:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38103#comment-759399 Cornhead:

I’m not at all sure it’s gotten that much more complex, although perhaps for very large corporations it has.

My father did the bulk of his work in the 1950s and 1960s, when marginal tax rates were very high and tax shelters and loopholes were rife. Many of his clients had to avail themselves of the latter, and they needed a crackerjack accountant to do so. My father was a crackerjack accountant.

]]> By: Don Carlos https://thenewneo.com/2014/04/15/thoughts-on-tax-day-3/#comment-759382 Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:08:47 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38103#comment-759382 Anyone who gives to United Way is a sucka. Give to individual entities. Same goes for gifts to RNC instead of individual candidates.

]]> By: southpaw https://thenewneo.com/2014/04/15/thoughts-on-tax-day-3/#comment-759365 Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:31:52 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38103#comment-759365 Besides having to deal with people who don’t pay any taxes, my head explodes whenever I see the “earned income tax credit”. A nice little scam for people who not only paid NO taxes, they got a “refund”.
And if you are lucky enough to experience a corporate shakedown by the United Way, you can hear about how proud they are to get accountants to help people claim the earned income tax credit. So not only is the government fleecing you for the zero taxpayers, you get professional tax accountants volunteering to help them fill out their tax forms to get every dollar the government is able to take from you. That’s great work for a charity to be engaged in. Asking for donations, while bragging about how they are helping to redistribute your income with the tax code.
Meanwhile, I am hoping I will qualify for a refund, any refund, again.

]]> By: Matthew https://thenewneo.com/2014/04/15/thoughts-on-tax-day-3/#comment-759347 Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:38:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=38103#comment-759347 I remember my dad calling The Taxman the only conservative song the Beatles ever wrote.

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