If you strip a man or woman of everything leaving them with nothing all they have left to fall back on is the desire to see the whole world burn around them. I have a feeling I am not the only one out there…
You should post up the H and R block summary page of your return. I just don’t believe that you paid half your income in taxes. It’s not possible man. Did you owe back taxes? Were you making capital gains all year without making tax payments as you go? If they penalized you for not having insurance, then the idea is that you could have bought insurance but you didn’t. Did you go to healthcare.gov to see if you could have gotten a subsidy? Either you’re giving us fake numbers, or your accountant is an asshat.
The numbers work out assuming he lives in Oregon and $18k is after tax income. That would make his total earnings ~$27k, putting him in the 15% marginal bracket for federal taxes and 9% state taxes, plus Social Security (6%) and other nickle-and-dime taxes. All told, $9.5k seems plausible.
No back taxes or capital gains, the numbers are quite real. At this point I am thinking about either finding a loophole on my taxes or not paying them at all if possible. Every two weeks I am already paying two hundred something dollars in taxes concerning my paycheck from work.
coughs, coughs, Illinois
So yes, I live in Illinois on the Iowa-Illinois border which the nearest city in Iowa is like twenty five minutes away and why me along with Wendy like to think of ourselves as honorary Iowans because living in Illinois sucks that bad. As soon as the Obama super highway is built between Chicago and Springfield I want to take a photo of me taking a piss or giant dump on it. That will go into our collectible photo scrap book for sure.
Alright fuck it, I am filing exempt on all state and federal income taxes. I’m done feeding this parasitical beast. I would advise anybody else living in the United States to file exempt also if they can. I am getting ready to join the growing 47% of the American population that is doing the same. Research both state and federal tax laws before doing this otherwise they will come after you.
Markets are too quiet today…
Republicans are red and democrats are blue, neither political party gives a flying fuck about you…
Today’s deep insights is fear, uncertainty, panic, and extreme volatility or how to be in debt within the United States up to 40 trillion dollars in debt by 2028.
Stop using HR blockheads. All you had to do was specify that the insurance was considered “unaffordable” and there wouldn’t have been a penalty. Tax Act software had check boxes plainly displayed to that end. Anyone making $18k cannot afford insurance.
If you’re smart enough to post on a philosophy forum, you’re smart enough to do your own taxes.
I did specify unaffordability but that didn’t do anything and if you think that does I got a bridge to sell you in Hoboken, New Jersey. Seriously though, I doubt anybody here makes the amount of money I do yearly or much less to know where I am coming from. It doesn’t matter however as I’ve declared my exemptions where over the next nine months I’ll see most of that money returned back to me in another form. I’m already familiar with all the tax gimmicks out there. I think you and others underestimate the ability of the United States government to fuck over poor low income people thinking that somehow it’s a just government out to protect the little guy, in truth reality is the complete opposite but whatever believe what you wish.
The wheels are about to come off the United States economy and frankly I’m comfortably numb where I just don’t give a damn.
Federal Reserve unbalancing it balance sheet financially? You don’t say? What happens next within a short period of time? Tiiiimmmmber, watch out below!
Negative credit rates here we come with the added bonus of severe economic deflation. That would be a great end for 2018. grabs popcorn with cheddar dip Damn, I love this movie called reality!
Poor Mr. Powell the first non-chosenite, non-kosher head of the Federal Reserve in almost twenty years, does he know what kind of mess he inherited from the last God’s chosen three heads? Probably not. Poor bastard can’t even recover most of last week’s losses on the DOW. 
This economy is like a limp dick where shots of Viagra no longer works. I’m enjoying everyday of this shitshow. Come on Powell do something really stupid so we can see the DOW or S&P reduced to zero by the end of the year! I’m rooting for you man! 
You dip individual pieces of popcorn into a cheddar dip? That’s weird man.
You’re suppose to melt it on the top of the popcorn.
Hmm… 
What? How? What kind of dip are we talking about here?
Besides that, what’s your take on the DJIA heading toward a near full recovery of last week’s losses?
I’m telling you man. They just wanted to shake out the weak hands and sell bonds. Upward consolidation of wealth, and more money for the govt to play with. Lolz. There’s a lot of people out there right now who are thanking the panic sellers for the cheap shares, and anyone who shorted QQQ or any other index tracking ETFs better be in the money already or they’re going to see those options expire before they pay off.