2007-07-22 00:30:15 · 13 answers · asked by ✿Purple✿ 5 in Business & Finance ➔ Taxes ➔ United States
I paid taxes for 35 years. I didn't like it just like everyone else. Yet I am glad that I did. I am now disabled due to an on job injury and now am drawing Social Security Disability. Where would I be today if everyone had not been paying there taxes?
2007-07-22 00:44:33 · answer #1 · answered by Pommac 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hate it but it is necessary. What I don't like is when you fill out your forms at work - married, single, # of dependents, whatever. As long as you answer these truthfully and since your deductions are determined from federal tax charts, at the end of the year if they didn't get enough it should be their problem, not yours. They should not be able to take more or make you pay. Now on the other hand if you lie, they should because you have messed with the brackets.
2007-07-22 07:42:54 · answer #2 · answered by Barry S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a necessary evil, no different from making my mortgage, utility, or credit card payments.
We get pretty good value for our tax dollars in the US. The US has some of the lowest total taxes of any of the major industrialized nations. I've lived in foreign countries for a number of years and the taxes in all of them would shock most Americans.
Ignore the moron below who says it's illegal. He's an idiot like the rest of the Tax Kooks. Tom Cryer got lucky on the criminal case, but he'll STILL have to pay his tax debt -- now about triple what it would have been had he filed and paid on time. Proof positive of their absolute stupidity. What a bunch of freaking halfwits!
2007-07-22 07:41:00 · answer #3 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well, i don't like paying money to anyone. But, I would rather pay tax than have to hire my own security force...and pay someone else to use a road.
And, before you buy into this Tom Cryer bull...it is just that...it didn't happen. It is a scam and it will only get you in trouble. First of all a state court would not be the venue this would be tried in.
2007-07-22 12:23:40 · answer #4 · answered by Russ B 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunately it is a necessary evil that is hard to escape. I don't like taxes because they spend it irresponsibly to make government bigger and even more inefficient and the longer they do it the fewer services you will receive in the future because most of it will be used as an interest payment to service the national debt.
All I can say is play their game written for the wealthy and try to aspire to earn a living that is not deemed by the government as work. Like long term capital gains, Roth IRAs, tax free interest income and flipping houses where your tax burden is very low or nil and avoid putting money into the social security system which is nothing but a ponzi scheme.
2007-07-22 10:22:16 · answer #5 · answered by scow_sailor1692 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Doesn't bother me. It's like paying rent or buying food: Just a necessary expense. It only pisses me off when we hear that our tax-dollars have been squandered on something idiotic or something that does our country and our society no good. I don't have a problem with paying when I know it's going towards infrastructure, education, public health, national parks, etc.
2007-07-22 07:40:40 · answer #6 · answered by The Man In The Box 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
As a small business owner, I hate it. The tax man song just echoes in my head every quarter. I wish I had an overseas account like those in big business.
2007-07-22 08:35:05 · answer #7 · answered by L J 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
ai think everyone should pay taxes, including those with children.
2007-07-22 07:39:57 · answer #8 · answered by txcatwoman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is Illegal..
Tom Cryer, a Shreveport, LA, trial attorney who has refused to file tax returns for years was recently acquitted of evasion and willful failure to file charges filed against him by the federal government. At the trial Tom told the jury that there is no law making him liable for the income tax; that his fees, personally earned by his own labor, were not “income” as defined by the Supreme Court; and that if any income was derived from his labor any such income is exempt (and excluded by the code and regulations) because they are derived from a non-taxable activity, i.e., the exercise of a God-given fundamental right, our Constitutionally protected right to earn a living by any lawful occupation.
To learn more about these issues and Tom’s case go to www.liefreezone.com and www.truthattack.org. To see Tom’s videos on the Truth about the income tax laws, go to www.youtube.com and enter “Tom Cryer” in the search box.
2007-07-22 08:18:45 · answer #9 · answered by amcdec 1 · 2⤊ 4⤋
It sucks, but I don't miss the money since its taken out before my living expenses.
2007-07-22 09:42:22 · answer #10 · answered by Steve 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋