What a Wonderful Morning

On Apr 12, 6:28*pm, "Morgans" wrote:
"Matt W. Barrow" wrote

Neither have many of us for you. You, like most, are right where they want
to be.

I am doing something that is very important for a continued healthy society.
I train workers so that people like you can exploit them, and become
wealthy.

Borrow, *you are a pompus ass. *I hope your wealth comforts you in the life
hereafter.

So you are happy doing what you are doing. You've choosen a rewarding
career vs. something that pays more. So why do you consider it an
insult when Matt points that out???

-robert

On Apr 12, 8:13*am, Dan Luke wrote:

I just got the big, fat envelope from the accountant but I wasn't
going to open it until Monday morning. Mondays suck anyway.

I could have a durn nice Decathlon for what they've squeezed out of me
this tax year already.

yep, that's our punishment for working hard. The gov't rewards those
that are dependant on it and punishes those that provide the financial
support to make the gov't run. I paid more in federal taxes last year
than I made all year in the year I first got marrried, and I still
have to figure state income tax. Rand was right, this house of cards
will fall someday.

-robert

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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yep, that's our punishment for working hard. The gov't rewards those
that are dependant on it and punishes those that provide the financial
support to make the gov't run. I paid more in federal taxes last year
than I made all year in the year I first got marrried, and I still
have to figure state income tax. Rand was right, this house of cards
will fall someday.

I'm in much the same boat I suppose. I don't know how much I made the year I
got married, but I'd sure not go back even if it meant no taxes, in fact at
today's wages it probably would. I make a damn good living out of all this,
Damn good. If the small obligation I have is to pay back a big chunk of it
then that's the price I'll pay. I wonder about those whove been priveledged
and are bitter and angry about putting back in.
I dream of the day I pay a full million dollars in tax!! Now THAT will be a
year to remember! Never going to make it BTW, but it's something to shoot
for!

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:58:35 -0300, "Anon" wrote:


I dream of the day I pay a full million dollars in tax!! Now THAT will be a
year to remember! Never going to make it BTW, but it's something to shoot
for!

That's the way I always looked at it.

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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On Apr 12, 6:28 pm, "Morgans" wrote:
"Matt W. Barrow" wrote

Neither have many of us for you. You, like most, are right where they
want
to be.

I am doing something that is very important for a continued healthy
society.
I train workers so that people like you can exploit them, and become
wealthy.

Yeah, you've shown your intellect level: PUNK.

Most people outgrow tendancies toward envy when reach puberty. When it
continues into adulthood, it produces all sorts of disorders.


Borrow, you are a pompus ass. I hope your wealth comforts you in the life
hereafter.

It's BARROW, numbskull.


: So you are happy doing what you are doing. You've choosen a rewarding
: career vs. something that pays more. So why do you consider it an
: nsult when Matt points that out???

Especially since he came off as such a snotnose to Denny.

I estimate Morgans is one of those that Thomas Sowell pointed out as "the
bottom 25%", so he's doing better than he normally would in the work-a-day
world.

The cementhead can't grasp the having a HOME is pretty crucial, too.

On Apr 12, 6:28 pm, "Morgans" wrote:
"Matt W. Barrow" wrote

Neither have many of us for you. You, like most, are right where they
want
to be.

I am doing something that is very important for a continued healthy
society.
I train workers so that people like you can exploit them, and become
wealthy.

Borrow, you are a pompus ass. I hope your wealth comforts you in the life
hereafter.

At least I get all my income in arms-length, freely chosen trade, not
coerced at proxy gunpoint like you, you POS thug!

No, if it wasn't for the armed tax man, you've be living under a bridge.

"B A R R Y" wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:58:35 -0300, "Anon" wrote:


I dream of the day I pay a full million dollars in tax!! Now THAT will be
a
year to remember! Never going to make it BTW, but it's something to shoot
for!

That's the way I always looked at it.

Quite!

If you don't aim high, all your shots will land short.

Yet some shrill at people with ambition (the big differtiator between
poverty and wealth).

From a review of Edward Banfield's 'The Unheavenly City"
-------
The more upper-class people are, he said, the more they care about their
posterity and their society. Even if they have no children, they're future
oriented. These people are the opposite of the Keynesians and their "in the
long run we're all dead." Like Mises, they uphold the good and true, for the
long term.

These are the savers and investors, the entrepreneurs and producers who make
a capitalist economy hum. They're also the generous givers, people who make
charitable contributions to preserve what's right, and change what's not,
over the long term.

Further down the class scale, said Banfield, people are more
present-oriented. And at the lower end, they are more likely to be on
welfare or criminals. Those on the dole have little concern for tomorrow.
As to the outlaws, when they want money, there's no thought of working for
it. They grab your wallet.

One of the worst effects of the welfare state, Banfield showed, is to skew
all of society's time horizons towards the lower class. Thanks to
redistribution and giveaways, there is far less preparation for the futu
too many people feel that the government will take care of them, and the
Fed's inflation generates a live-for-the-moment attitude as well.
-------------
Studies of census data for the past four censuses demographic data bears
this out.

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:46:52 -0700, "Matt W. Barrow"
wrote:

If you don't aim high, all your shots will land short.


And if you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time!

On Apr 14, 1:58*pm, "Anon" wrote:
"Robert M. Gary" wrote in ...
If the small obligation I have is to pay back a big chunk of it
then that's the price I'll pay. I wonder about those whove been priveledged
and are bitter and angry about putting back in.

Small? The AMT rate is about 25% for federal married. Add in 10% for
state income tax. Plus figure the overage house costs about $7000/yr
in property taxes, plus airplane property taxes, and we haven't even
paid sales tax. A $300,000 airplane costs $24,000 in sales/use tax.
There is no doubt that many of us spent more than 50% of our income on
taxes one way or another.

-Robert

I dream of the day I pay a full million dollars in tax!! Now THAT will be
a
year to remember! Never going to make it BTW, but it's something to shoot
for!

That's the way I always looked at it.

Yep, and that was my point.

I know I will never get there, teaching school. I do believe that teachers
of all subjects deserve better compensation than they receive, especially in
some states that pay less than other states.

My father law had a rule of not discussing specific salary or finances in
public at all. He though it showed a certain lack of manners to do so. I
have to say that I see his point, and think it is a good point.

I didn't want to come off as picking on Denny; just pointing out what was
stated in the above posts.

Then Borrow comes in with an attitude, as he often does. I have to admit,
that sets me off. I won't respond to his posts, on subjects such as this,
though.

I am not in favor of tax schedules that keep going up, the more a person
makes, believe it or not. It is not fair when people and corporations play
the tax laws so that they come out paying less (percentage wise) than middle
class working people.

Without getting into nitty gritty specifics, because I realize the bugger is
the details, everyone should pay the same flat percentage in income taxes.
If you make a million dollars per year, you should not complain about paying
a large sum of money, if it is the same percentage that a teacher or a
policeman pays. Either that, or pay no income taxes, and make a sales tax
on everything (except food) at a rate that the sum everyone pays is enough
to keep the guberment going.

Too bad that will never happen. One can dream, though.