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PGids t1_j31an9f wrote

Reply to comment by ZeekLTK in $450 checks to help Mainers with heating costs expected to be sent starting in mid-January by wheresmycaketester

Being unmarried and no kids really blows when you like overtime.

I was monumentally closer to grossing 80 than I was six figures, and between the two governments I paid taxes too they felt entitled to almost 22k of it

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TarantinoFan23 t1_j32qlw8 wrote

They wanted you to do something with the money. But you choose not to. Now they get to decide what to do with it.

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PGids t1_j336e0m wrote

You mean other than maxing out every pre-tax contribution my employer offers and buying into their supplemental life insurance? If slam more in my 401k if I wasn’t trying to put cash in my savings

There’s no justification for taxing a person making ~$30 an hour $500-600 a week because I’m trying to sock some cash away and get ahead on shit

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TarantinoFan23 t1_j337m84 wrote

Precisely. They punish saving the money. You either pay tax or do something like start a charity. Or take off work, lower your taxes and volunteer.

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TimothyOilypants t1_j33pcx2 wrote

Or just shut up and pay your taxes because it's good for civilization. This American preoccupation with avoiding taxation and mutal aid is fucking obnoxious...

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PGids t1_j33xqn5 wrote

When the federal government stops doing shit like spending 50 million on boosting tourism in Tunisia I’ll stop bitching.

I have no problem with mutual aid, I take a lot of problem with completely braindead spending.

Cut the spending, up taxes on the gaggle of people that don’t pay shit, but stop squeezing the little guy to death and threatening to ruin his life if he doesn’t cough it up

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TimothyOilypants t1_j340wbc wrote

Ignoring your myopic and likely racist resistance to foreign aid; even if we increase corporate tax rates (which we should) the individual marginal tax rate in the US is still one of the lowest among rich 1st world countries.

Anyone over $50k should be paying at least 40% full stop.

Unless you are making less than $9,000 annually you ARE NOT "the little guy" in global terms. Stop whining about your life of privilege.

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