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OT US tax code law [message #83133] Sun, 15 April 2007 13:14 Go to next message
Bill L is currently offline  Bill L   UNITED STATES
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Registered: August 2006
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I'm doing my taxes and I have just one thing to say:

WHO THE F**K THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?

If I worked for a year I don't think I could create such a ridiculously
complicated rat's nest of complexity. In fact I seriously don't think
any sane person person could create it.

If you are an American please, please look up the Fair Tax
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer. Anyone, Democrat or Republican,
would benefit. No one takes an unfair hit. And we all would enjoy the
prosperity it would promote to the American people. It is the sanest
solution to this wasteful, ludicrous, special interest benefiting code
of laws we currently have.

No matter what you may have heard about it, please study it for yourself
and see if it makes sense.

Honestly, we need a new solution. NOW! Support The Fair Tax!
Re: OT US tax code law [message #83135 is a reply to message #83133] Sun, 15 April 2007 14:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Paul Artola is currently offline  Paul Artola   UNITED STATES
Messages: 161
Registered: November 2005
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Bill -

This year's taxes were especially painful for me - not so much for the
money I had to pay, but for the brain-twisting I had to go thru to
fill out the forms. These days, I don't even mess with hardcopies, but
go straight to online tax prep services. I did our family taxes at
TaxEngine.com, and that seemed to do fine for our Fed and State
returns, especially the quick filing and refunds. However, I also had
to file for my 10-year-old's stock investments. In the end, I had to
do those at TurboTax.com cause the other site couldn't seem to handle
the fact that a 10-year-old who made $4,000 in investments should have
to pay $12,000 in taxes!

All this work definitely causes reflection on our system, and I think
it comes down to this - if we simplified that tax system, millions of
us would benefit from simplicity, but a large chunk of the accounting
profession would be out of work. And we know who pays when a major
employment sector is suddenly unemployed.

And so it goes (rip K.V.)...

- Paul Artola
Ellicott City, Maryland

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:14:40 -0400, Bill L <bill@billlorentzen.com>
wrote:

>I'm doing my taxes and I have just one thing to say:
>
>WHO THE F**K THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?
>
>If I worked for a year I don't think I could create such a ridiculously
>complicated rat's nest of complexity. In fact I seriously don't think
>any sane person person could create it.
>
>If you are an American please, please look up the Fair Tax
>http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer. Anyone, Democrat or Republican,
>would benefit. No one takes an unfair hit. And we all would enjoy the
>prosperity it would promote to the American people. It is the sanest
>solution to this wasteful, ludicrous, special interest benefiting code
>of laws we currently have.
>
>No matter what you may have heard about it, please study it for yourself
>and see if it makes sense.
>
>Honestly, we need a new solution. NOW! Support The Fair Tax!
Re: OT US tax code law [message #83142 is a reply to message #83133] Sun, 15 April 2007 21:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Chris Latham is currently offline  Chris Latham   UNITED STATES
Messages: 109
Registered: June 2005
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I've known about the Fair Tax concept for a couple of years now, and the
more I learn about it the more it makes sense. Something different has to
be put into action. I live in TN and we have no state income tax, but we do
pay 9.75% sales tax, and it works just fine. No reason it couldn't work on
a federal level.

Chris
Re: OT US tax code law [message #83151 is a reply to message #83142] Mon, 16 April 2007 06:53 Go to previous message
Chris Ludwig is currently offline  Chris Ludwig   UNITED STATES
Messages: 868
Registered: May 2006
Senior Member
HI Chris,
I also want a receipt of what every last penny of my tax money was spent
on. :)

Chris


Chris Latham wrote:
> I've known about the Fair Tax concept for a couple of years now, and the
> more I learn about it the more it makes sense. Something different has to
> be put into action. I live in TN and we have no state income tax, but we do
> pay 9.75% sales tax, and it works just fine. No reason it couldn't work on
> a federal level.
>
> Chris
>
>
>

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