 | | “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the federal income tax.”- Albert Einstein. —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | Seeing how this is tax day in the US (but not tax freedom day, that comes quite a bit later in the year), this topic seems fitting... The subject quote is from this article (URL) may have the most complicated tax plan in the world... (21 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the federal income tax.”- Albert Einstein. —John Neal
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| | | | | (...) Sad thing is it doesn't have to be that way: (URL) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the federal income tax.”- Albert Eins —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | | (...) paying about 30-40% of your *income* right now[?]. Who decides what "necessities" are? Are stocks and shares "necessities"? Clothing? Books? A haircut? Anything other than a “trailer” for a home? Scott A (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the federal income tax.”- Albert Eins —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | | | | | (...) More. -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the federal income tax.”- Albert Einstein. —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) have to point out that of all the posters to this thread that responded to my original post, you came the closest to actually addressing what was being said. What the article was addressing was not how much tax ought to be paid, nor how much (...) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the federal income tax.”- Albert Einstein. —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) have to point out that of all the posters to this thread that responded to my original post or any other, you came the closest to actually addressing what was being said. What the article was addressing was not how much tax ought to be paid, (...) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Tax day, give me a break —Lester Witter
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| | | | Guys The US tax system may be more complex than many other countries (I have no idea if this is true) but the rate of taxation is low compared to other industrialized nations. I'm a middle class taxpayer and I estimate my total fedral, state and (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Tax day, give me a break —Scott Arthur
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| | | | (...) Although income tax is comparable with your own [when NI is included], in the UK we are taxed at 40% of GDP. But the difference is cultural too; we don't mind paying tax if we get good public services in return... we want education and health (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Tax day, give me a break —Scott Arthur
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| | | | (...) There was an interesting letter in the Guardian yesterday about life in Cuba... ==+== Far from not trusting its own people, the more obvious reason for the crackdown on dissidents, is the Cuban government's fear of US intentions. Cuba has had (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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