Do you pay Taxes?

Did the Trump Tax Reform help you?

  • Yes

    Votes: 9 42.9%

  • No

    Votes: 12 57.1%
  • Total voters
    21
Lucky Luke said:
As a non American I always found it strange that you pay income tax on state and then Federal. . . . . . . . . .
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The United States of America. All 50 states decide for themselves how they want to fund government. Florida is a non income tax state, but we do have 6% sales tax on most things {food excluded}. Most counties and towns add from a half to one percent. Plus fees added on to every thing you get from the government. But over all, our tax code is geared toward sucking all the money we can out of tourists. Gas, hotels, air travel, car rentals are all taxed high. The locals get caught in the same net though.
 
londonfog said:
Need to get a side business to write off as a loss. help offset
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For me, my spare time is worth more than what I could save. I work hard, put in plenty of hours, not complaining because I like what I do, but I need time from work to recover. I have plenty of non-income producing interests such as cooking, gardening, spearfishing, scuba diving, white water rafting, tour kayaking, backpacking, being a dad, time for Habitat for Humanity, working with Riverkeepers, facing down fascists when they show up in Portland, pretending I can fix things, and so forth. It's all about where you want to spend your time.
 
Fogdog said:
For me, my spare time is worth more than what I could save. I work hard, put in plenty of hours, not complaining because I like what I do, but I need time from work to recover. I have plenty of non-income producing interests such as cooking, gardening, spearfishing, scuba diving, white water rafting, tour kayaking, backpacking, being a dad, time for Habitat for Humanity, working with Riverkeepers, facing down fascists when they show up in Portland, pretending I can fix things, and so forth. It's all about where you want to spend your time.
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I just saw so many side hustle to write off. Dude get a business as a tour guide
 
londonfog said:
Nope. get paid for what you are already doing anyway. Now just take people with on some excursions.
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I get that you don't understand why I don't and I don't understand why I would do that. Just to save a few bucks in taxes? My time has value too. On some months, I'm on business travel for half of it. Time with the kids is priceless as is the time I spend in my recreation. I make plenty and after buying the gear that I use for years, I don't spend much on my recreation. I put away plenty of my income before taxes last year and am on my way to an early retirement as it is. I just don't need to worry about some clumsy peep hurting them self jumping off a rock into the river after I specifically said it was not safe to jump off there. Nope. For some people making money is part of the joy and why they take on that second business as well as the risk but not me.

I respect that you have your situation dialed in the way you like it. Me? I'm happy too.
 
Roger A. Shrubber said:
that's the thing...if you're happy, everyone else can take their life advice and stuff it...
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London and I and many others, probably you too, have taken control of their lives. We all use different strategies that depend as much on our particular situation as it does our personalities. I agree with London that I'm letting some financial opportunity get away from me but its a conscious trade off to make time for those close to me and to do I want to do. I'd say that London's advice is good and he was trying to help. Still, I never heard of anybody putting the words "I wish I'd spent more time at work" on their gravestone. So, I've arranged my life to make sure it's spent giving and getting as much joy as I can. That said, it's all made possible by my being able to live below my income. Not everybody finds that possible, so I recognize that I'm fortunate too.
 
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Fogdog said:
London and I and many others, probably you too, have taken control of their lives. We all use different strategies that depend as much on our particular situation as it does our personalities. I agree with London that I'm letting some financial opportunity get away from me but its a conscious trade off to make time for those close to me and to do I want to do. I'd say that London's advice is good and he was trying to help. Still, I never heard of anybody putting the words "I wish I'd spent more time at work" on their gravestone. So, I've arranged my life to make sure it's spent giving and getting as much joy as I can. That said, it's all made possible by my being able to live below my income. Not everybody finds that possible, so I recognize that I'm fortunate too.
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I feel you on that family time. My one regret about my career in the air force was the times I missed with my children. I could have crossed trained to jobs that would have kept me home more, but I wanted the jobs that had adventure and paid for it. You don't get hazardous pay behind a desk. TDY duty takes you away from family anywhere from two weeks to 90 days, but making an extra 2200+ a trip going Hawaii ( Hickam) , Guam ( Anderson ), Okinawa ( Kadena ), Korea (Osan), Philippines ( Clark ) on a two month duty away was fun trip , but family missed. ( Alaska TDY SUCK ASS IN THE WINTER ) Benefits with cost. Was able to save and make more money to help the family, but missed the reading of bedtime stories. No such thing as "FaceTime" when I was in with toddlers
 
londonfog said:
I feel you on that family time. My one regret about my career in the air force was the times I missed with my children. I could have crossed trained to jobs that would have kept me home more, but I wanted the jobs that had adventure and paid for it. You don't get hazardous pay behind a desk. TDY duty takes you away from family anywhere from two weeks to 90 days, but making an extra 2200+ a trip going Hawaii ( Hickam) , Guam ( Anderson ), Okinawa ( Kadena ), Korea (Osan), Philippines ( Clark ) on a two month duty away was fun trip , but family missed. ( Alaska TDY SUCK ASS IN THE WINTER ) Benefits with cost. Was able to save and make more money to help the family, but missed the reading of bedtime stories. No such thing as "FaceTime" when I was in with toddlers
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never too late to make those connections, just a little more akward when you're both adults...
 
Roger A. Shrubber said:
never too late to make those connections, just a little more akward when you're both adults...
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I can never make up that lost time, but I have a strong connection with my kids. Nothing awkward when it comes to my babies...and yes my 26 year old daughter is still my baby...she will tell you as such. Two girls. Ones my "baby love" and the other my "baby girl". The boy is just the "boy ":D
 
rollitup said:
This pea-brained trump chump, who is spamming us with this campaign bullshit, has just posted about how he has to take a drug test for a new job as a warehouse worker! :lol:

He's concerned because the test is after just taking some Norco (opioid pain reliever). So he is actually a pillbillie!

I mean, you just can't make this shit up! :lol:


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Makes sense he is slumming for some $15 an hour warehouse job, he was coming to me with desperate pleas for drug deals a while back
 
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