Comments on: The internet sucks

By: Pasadena real estate

Pasadena real estate — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 22:29:48 +0000

Wishful thinking but its just a matter of time until that happens. But if you need a tax shelter buy Pasadena Real Estate

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 13 May 2011 21:20:31 +0000

@Cinn
I do not think it is just the Republicans. The “two” parties are more alike than most people like to see. I consider the “lesser” of two evils to still be evil.
Still it would be nice to be able to just agree with the IRS about what we “owe.”

By: cinn

cinn — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:26:22 +0000

The IRS currently collects all this information from your employers and financial institutions. It is trivially easy for the IRS to just send you a yearly letter, saying “We believe you should get a refund of $X. If you disagree, go file your taxes here.” Apparently, there is a group within the IRS who proposes exactly this system ever year. And, every year, the republican veto the proposal. The thought process being that if we make it hard for people to file taxes, they will associate taxes with pain and annoyance and government bureaucracy. Then, maybe they’ll vote for us when we claim that taxes are evil and should be lowered.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:19:58 +0000

consider yourself lucky friends… i live in denmark.. over here the income tax is as high as up 71 % yep you heard right, it starts about 41 % and the more you earn the more you pay in tax… and besides that we PAY FOR WATER !! yep everytime we open our Water Faucet we have to pay for it… I HATE that part of my country…

By: Facepalm

Facepalm — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:00:47 +0000

And that’s your reason why the internet sucks? There are much more and better reasons, all involve people and not taxes.

By: Deenox

Deenox — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:25:27 +0000

Tous le monde fait compliqué alors que parfois ça peux rester simple.

By: vis

vis — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:28:58 +0000

I think you’ve missed a point. Your boss already had to withhold taxes from your paycheck in the first place. If there was anything non-stupid about the system, you wouldn’t file taxes at all. You’d just get a note from the IRS saying “We’re in ur wrk, haz ur money. Haha!”

I think mostly they set it up this way so that deep down inside, we’d all know just how pwned we really are.

By: MDA

MDA — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:16:34 +0000

I don’t know how the IRS works. Don’t my employer and my financial institutions already report everything to the IRS?

In any case, you will note that, in the post above, I call for an aggregating service. The service need not be hosted by the IRS. My “wish”, as you’ll note, also calls for such a service to not require I hand over account numbers and other sensitive information.

This fantasy is possible without jeopardizing my privacy or the privacy of anyone else.

By: Sher

Sher — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:55:00 +0000

Maybe you just want the government to do everything for you. Did you ever think that the only way for the IRS to do such a thing would be if you were to give up your right to privacy? Is this a trade you’d like to make? And if you say yes, should we all be subjected to this even if we don’t agree? Let’s just get rid of anything that has to do with personal responsibility. As a matter of fact, let’s not do anything for ourselves, let’s have someone else do everything for us. Let’s just skip over socialism, let’s go straight to communism. People need to pay attention to how they influence the people around them and how those people around them influence the rest of the world and how some of those people get into a position of power and then try to take advantage of the lazy people and convince them to give up certain civil liberties in exchange for an “easier” way of life. Becareful what you wish for.

By: Mr. Blue

Mr. Blue — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:23:03 +0000

How about no income taxes, and maybe a high sales tax instead.

Only pay on what you buy, keep the rest of your money :)

… oh what a concept.