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2. How much would you worry about retaliation if you went to recover a few hundred bucks worth of goods that were stolen from you with the cops hiding and waiting? 3. Is "I was given a choice" a grammatically correct sentence? Explain. Use the term "transitive verb" in your response. |
3. could you define "grammatically correct"? |
the guy has her name from their e-mails. (and people wonder why all my e-mail address have fake names!) if I were her, I would worry. but she's all righteous, and the thing is worth like $400. it was stolen at a local club after her band played, and the guy says he bought it at a local music store. if I were her, I would worry. but she's too pissed and righteous for that. |
is that an acceptable rewrite of "a choice was given to me"? |
with number 2...id issue a restraining order if you feel you are in danger. |
instead of socking away part of my income into this tax-deferred stock game, for the moment should I just use it all to pay off my debts and go back in when the water's warmer? know what I mean? |
I'm considering throwing alot of money at a NASDAQ index fund, myself. Maybe if it hits 1600... |
http://grammar.uoregon.edu/verbs/transitive.html |
thanks, r. |
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recently though, i switched my 401k from tech related stocks to the more reliable type stocks.....including stocks in the healthcare industries which i feel good about. you could do some shuffling cyst. also, do you have all your 401k in one facet? I have mine split 3 ways...from high risk, to moderate, to little or now risk. |
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i've caught people trying to steal several times, and my paycheck was stolen once. some people are just stupid. |
i think the guy's name was tom, sort of a friend of a friend. he had grunge-type band back in '94 or so. kind of a big, broad-shouldered guy with curly hair. one night he rents the upper room at the white elephant saloon on the north side. they'll let a band do that for a private party and if anybody happens to wander up there from the bar, you can charge 'em cover. at the end of the night a guy named mark j. - thin, pale guy with real self-esteem problems and no scruples but a pretty good artist - starts helping him carry his equipment back to the van. tom finds a place in the bushes where mark had been stashing amplifiers and microphones and shit. i was there when this happened - tom just walked quietly over to mark and slugs him. mark dropped and tom started kicking him. mark was yelling "peace man! it's cool it's cool!" this lasted about 30 seconds and then somebody went over there to get him to stop. tom just got his stuff out of the bushes and walked off. |
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now that the dotcom amusement park has closed, i have never been less excited about my future. |
young people should be risk heavy. invest heavily. god loves capitalism. with $1M you can buy jennie mays and get about $60K in interest per year without touching your principle. i understand that's plenty of salary in most parts of the country. the lottery is a tax on stupid people. there is a dog barking outside. utilize the ROTH IRA. buy real estate. |
There is a talk show host, that, for the most part, I despise...but he's pretty popular in Portland, LA and Seattle...Tom Leykis. He's a little bitch who generalizes thill he's blue in the face and insults the male in me, for the most part. I also realizes he speaks to the lowest common denominator. He once said "the lottery is an idiot tax" true |
leykis used to be interesting and still is on rare occasions. anyone remember when he used to talk about current events and stuff besides men vs. women? lionel is the best right now. |
he was sharp as a tack on a lot issues. i think CA has remained relatively true to seeing that lottery proceeds go to schools...but thats really based on nothing concrete i've seen or heard. |
schools see very little of the lottery money. |
that crap just lets legislators off the hook and justifies their underfunding of k-12 education. plus, lottery revenues go up and down. that's no way to fund something as important as schooling. I mean, wouldn't it be better if schools weren't held hostage for that sort of grandstanding, and instead, lottery funds went toward, I don't know, legislative staff salaries or something. then we could see what the true public support for the lottery is. |
they are the ones getting the tax breaks, the freebies, the government to listen. it's so stupid. i don't want any of my taxes going to support a corporation that pays it's ceo more per month than i've seen in my entire life. |
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that lottery money goes to private corporations? where are your taxes going again? |
suck it up. |
it's the rich and corporations that are getting the support, the tax breaks. boeing is leaving seattle because they think they're missing out. it's stupid. |
the rich have always gotten a break one way or another. They can afford the best. Im sure if I had enough money to bu the best CPA and lawyers i could make it to where I didnt pay any taxes either. |
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winning the lottery in my hometown is when you are fortunate enough to be injured on the job. you play it up as best you can and then you receive a settlement check in the mail nearly half a year later. the other way to win the lottery is to have life insurance for your family. my mother won the lottery... $75,000 for a back injury. my mother's friend $20 thousand or so for a foot injury. my brother $10,000 for a steamroller rolling over his feet. my stepfather $50,000 for my mother dying. here we strive for an injury or death... that's all there is to look forward to. |
You're bright enough to recognize it.Use that foresight.Get out now,before a steamroller traverses your feet.......yooooooowch. |
sometimes you don't make any sense. |
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maybe i'll drop out of college and hang around downtown all the time. that'll show the taxman. |
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my current hero is the oregon fella that pilfered millions from the accounts of the very wealthy. that guy rocks. |
Montgomery Burns pays $3 in taxes a year via loopholes. |
so, do you know why ice cubes shrink in your freezer? is it because of greenhouse gasses causing freezer warming? |
do you really think i base my opinions of society at large off a cartoon? it was actually an attempt to avoid going THERE with my cartoon reference... I do not KNOW who pays the bulk of taxes in this country. Because you say so, doesnt mean IT IS so. Are we speaking percentage or actual dollar amounts? Wait, don't answer that..I don't care. I will tell you, we are married, no children, no house, one car, what we CAN itemize doesnt reach the minimum and every year we pay over 1k in taxes. We make under 70k per year combined. We get fucked every god damn time. Even after advising our employers extra percentage points to take out we owe owe owe. You can't tell me corporations of all kinds don't lots spend of money on lawyers to find loopholes, lost of money on lobbyists to advise lawmakers to insert loopholes. They spend huge amounts of money to help their interests. I don't spend huge amounts of money to help me with my taxes, I can't afford to. So THAT was the basis for my statement. bitch look at the dance site and suckle my teat. I m not up for this today. |
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you write off all your photography stuff, right? |
hint 1: it's more than 50 percent. hint 2: it's more than 70 percent. hint 3: it's more than 80 percent. |
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My father in law is a CPA who owns his own firm, he looks after us. I cannot write any of my photography off, because I'm not earning anything from it. What little I did earn this past year, I didn't charge sales tax. I only made about $300 bucks from a wedding I did, and about $50 bucks I charged abother individual and about $100 for headshots. No tax was ever charged. I seriously undersold my value. Something Im trying to work on. Simpyl put, I don't offer my creative services. My photography is not vital to my standard of living, so I can't claim it. Until I start earning more bucks from my photography, I cannot write any of it off. I also consulted with an entertainement industry accountant...who specializes in doing taxes for freelance individuals. He also agreed my photgraphy stuff right now, doesn't add up. Right now the gov't would view it as no different than if I had a crochet hobby. We are in pretty decent hands when it comes to this stuff ther buddy boy. |
6,137,000 people reported income over $100K, accounting for 5.09% of all reporting. This 5.09% paid $338,011,000,000 in taxes, amounting to 51.35% of all taxes paid. Total reported income for this 5.09% is $1,410,280,000,000, or 31.09% source: IRS document 96indiv.pdf, Figure F. http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/tax_stats/soi/ind_hist.html file: 96INDTR.EXE |
businesses operate at a loss all the time. i'm suprised a CPA wouldn't know this. you pay estimated taxes all year long. what you pay or get back 4/15 is the difference in your actual tax debt and what was estimated. the key to reducing your tax is reducing your reported income. a great way to do this is to buy a house. you can beat the marriage penalty by having kids. the not-having-kids penalty sucks. |
31.09% of WHAT? If i understand that correctly the total reported income vs. the total taxes paid...is what this 31.09% is. So if i understand it correctly, they paid less 1/3 of their income in taxes. I have to look at my forms, but I paid around this as well. You can't compare the percentage to the actual $ amount. It's always going to come up seemingly skewed. We really should only focus on percentages. What would be more telling is what percentage every billionaire in America paid, of their income in taxes. |
from the same source, same figure: people reporting over $1,000,000 paid 30.8% of their income. people reporting in your range, $50-$100K paid 13%. |
the minute i make it a business, I have to have licenses to collect taxes, and I have to report what I earn. Im not a commercial photographer, and Im not wanting to be one per se. Now when I report for 2001, things may change. I have a month long gallery show coming up in August, and If I sell pieces, considering thegallery is involved, Im going to have to play buy the rules and will have to report that income. Im not working at the level that would make it worthy to make it a business. both my father in law and the local CPA agreed with this. I only spent about 2k in photography crap last year. Im not going to have kids to beat the marriage penalty. Thats a ridiculous notion, and further proof the penalty is absurd. We realize the benefits of buying a house...in all realms. I should also mention that this father-in-law is financing my wife's company Mille Nico. Im not really in a position to ask him to nit pick and grind out reports down as far he possibly can. Considering his services are free....we don't press the issue too much. |
http://www.texasobserver.org/subjects/columns/11.21.97.mi.html -- Molly Ivins, in a 1997 column: "The top 5 percent has an even larger share of the nation's accumulated wealth, holding about 60 percent of all net worth, according to The Nation." (which got its figures from NYU economist Edward Wolff) http://www.inequality.org/factsfr.html |
According to CNN in regards to the Bush tax proposal...my bracket pays 28%, under the Bush tax plan I will pay 25%. |
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flat tax rate of 10% for anything over 25k and a salary jump from 24,999 to 27,750 to eliminate any penalty for entering the taxable zone. no loopholes. if the gov can't make it happen with that money, fire 'em and hire someone who can. corporate earnings should be taxed similarly but i'm not sure what those exact numbers should be. charitable donations to non-profits might also be deductible up to a certain percent of gross income. |
are you saying that you believe wealth redistribution is a role of the government? patrick: (this is not an arguement) the progressive tax code works like this (numbers are simplified) $0-$10,000 .............. 0% $10,001-$20,000 ........ 15% $20,001-$30,000 ........ 20% $30,001-$100,000 ....... 25% say you make $60K. On the first $10K you pay 0%, on the next ~$10K you pay 15%, on the next ~$10K you pay 20% and on the last ~$30K you pay 25%. you're not paying a flat 25%. i agree with dave. |
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yeah, spider... $11K. the marriage penalty comes from the adjustments made to the brackets for a married couple. say something like this: $0-$15,000 .............. 0% $15,001-$25,000 ........ 15% $25,001-$35,000 ........ 20% $35,001-$105,000 ....... 25% $105,001-$200,000 ...... 30% if the $60K guy gets married and his wife doesn't work, that's great... his taxes go from $11K to $9.75K. however, if his wife makes $60K also, they'd now pay $25.5K ($120K on the above chart.) at $11K each when single, they're pre-marriage combined tax was $22K. |
I used to pay around 30% of my income in tax and now I pay around 15%. And it feels great. I assuage my social conscience in other ways. People earning middle class wages have a middle class mentality to money, and that holds them back. Think big and your bank balance will follow. |
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it's not. I don't remember saying so. is income immoral? is property ownership? are sales? "are you saying that you believe wealth redistribution is a role of the government?" aren't all taxes a form of wealth redistribution? |
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or should, anyway. statements such as: "the top 5 percent may pay the "bulk" (more than 50 percent) of the taxes. but do you have any idea what percentage of the nation's wealth the top 5 percent owns?" seem to argue the more you own (as opposed to earn in a year) should be the basis for taxation. either that, or wealth is somehow immmoral. our system is set up so that the more you earn, the higher percentage of what you earn goes to taxes. |
including this one. * * * all i know is that i read in the newspaper about how corporations complain about not getting enough benefits. sure, i got a new year 30 cent-per-hour cost of living raise, but the increase in union dues more than makes up for that. try getting your weekly check, opening it up, and seeing that you worked 20+ hours for around $80. that's like $4 an hour. i pay my tuition, pay for books (the store marks the list price UP by 1/3), gas money, some food and a new pair of socks everyonce in a while. i paid for my kitten to be spayed, paid for her food. i'm beginning to think about taking a second job and moving out so i could let my 16-year-old sister have the car because i'm tired as heck of driving 60 miles a day because she needs a ride to school, forgot her track gear, then needs a ride home. i haven't bought any new clothes for a couple of months, but i need a new pair of jeans, more slacks, dress shirts. i have no decent work shoes, and it looks like i'm going to need to drop at least $60-$70 because most stores don't carry my size and to top it off i have flat feet. i'm relying on my next paycheck to make up for the amount i need for tuition, due by one week from today. i've budgeted no money for books. if the real world is worse, please shoot me now. there's no way i can be fully self-sufficient on less than $200 a week. * * * this has been another pointless rant. please disregard the previous passage. |
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you'd have to see where the benefit is. |
The trick is to be your own employer. |
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