The Chinese are busy buying gold & will be introducing a gold backed currency (Renminbi) in a few years displacing the dollar & this is the garbage minutiae we wallow in? 😣

bloody spaniard wrote:

My wife and I do my BIL's taxes every year. He makes about 35k and supports a family of 7. He doesn't take food stamps out of pride, but he did get some Obama Phones (I'm not joking). Those phones now sit in a drawer, still being charged to the government. His oldest daughter goes to community college for free, and gets a small stipend.

He paid -$1000 in federal taxes... Thats right, he paid zero and got a $1000 extra back. His actual return was like $5500 back to him for all the taxes he "paid" READ WAS "WITHELD" FOR BREWHA, and his child tax credits.

His heart is in the right place. Three of the kids are his, two are "permanant foster", and are actually relatives from a crazy crackhead 2nd cousin of my BIL's.


This isn't some anecdotal story I am making up, it's the way things are. I think the tax system is about as fair as it's going to get. We can tax the rich ten times higher and it's not going to make a single bit of difference to my BIL. He already pays nothing, and actually gets money from the govt every year on top of all his withheld taxes returned. He, like the rest of the "poor", will not benefit in the least. His "rich" employers certainly will not increase his salary.



Flat tax is not good. Sounds good, but look at other socialist countries (just look at Germany tax system).

gringococolo wrote:

ZRX1200

ANYTHING THAT STARTS WITH "A CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE" SHOULD BE IGNORED,
WHATEVER FOLLOWS WILL PROBABLY INCLUDE SOMETHING THAT WILL PREVENT
WOMEN'S EQUALITY, ALLOW 30 BULLET CLIPS, AND THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
INCLUDING ASSAULT WEAPONS AND FLAME THROWERS,

RICKAMAVEN wrote:

maybe you never asked...


😎

tailgater wrote:

Let's make doctor's illegal!

ZRX1200 wrote:

just because it's a semi-automatic rifle doesn't mean it's an assault rifle.... [-(

DrafterX wrote:

ZRX1200

ANYTHING THAT STARTS WITH "A CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE" SHOULD BE IGNORED,
WHATEVER FOLLOWS WILL PROBABLY INCLUDE SOMETHING THAT WILL PREVENT
WOMEN'S EQUALITY, ALLOW 30 BULLET CLIPS, AND THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
INCLUDING ASSAULT WEAPONS AND FLAME THROWERS,

RICKAMAVEN wrote:

I'm all for the 2nd amendment but have no dog in this debate nor interest in weapons other than my b.o. and deadly stare.
You folks, on the other hand, better get used to the idea than all guns will eventually be seized and banned. It's inevitable and, your bluster nonwithstanding, you can't do anything about it. You're either fooling yourself or suicidal if you think otherwise.

Good on yer pumpkin cannon, Drafter. Let me know when you find one that fires merengue. Yum

bloody spaniard wrote:

Oh, believe me, I see the writing on the wall. We either give up our weapons, kiss our freedoms goodbye, and accept government oppression as the new norm, or resist and are murdered or imprisoned by said government.

dpnewell wrote:

I'm all for the 2nd amendment but have no dog in this debate nor interest in weapons other than my b.o. and deadly stare.
You folks, on the other hand, better get used to the idea than all guns will eventually be seized and banned. It's inevitable and, bluster nonwithstanding, you can't do anything about it. You're either fooling yourself or suicidal if you think otherwise.

Good on yer pumpkin cannon, Drafter. Let me know when you find one that fires merengue. Yum

bloody spaniard wrote:

too many guns out there Bloody... they can't take them all... but they will go after certain types and keep after the others... just not going to get them.... [-(

DrafterX wrote: