wtf is wrong with people?

[WelshBloke]

Write a what?
FYI, we use CHECKS here in the US of A...take yer foofy "Cheques" back to Northern France...I mean Canuckistan.

Check

Cheque

 

[rudeguy]

I don't know about you but I sure could use an extra $400 every month...

I'm on commission so my tax rate is all over the place. Its not quite that simple when your income can be +/- $1k per pay period. When I make less, I get bumped to the lower tax bracket so I take home more anyways. When I make more, I'm going to get bent over no matter what I do.

I'd still rather have a lump sum once a year. Helps me get caught up after Christmas and lets me spend money on things that I normally wouldn't. Plus I am forever scared after the year that I ended up owing. I wasn't prepared for it and it screwed me up for a couple years.

 

[AstroManLuca]

I'm on commission so my tax rate is all over the place. Its not quite that simple when your income can be +/- $1k per pay period. When I make less, I get bumped to the lower tax bracket so I take home more anyways. When I make more, I'm going to get bent over no matter what I do.

I'd still rather have a lump sum once a year. Helps me get caught up after Christmas and lets me spend money on things that I normally wouldn't. Plus I am forever scared after the year that I ended up owing. I wasn't prepared for it and it screwed me up for a couple years.

Yeah it makes sense if your income fluctuates. It was confusing to me because your OP talked about being in an office, and I normally associate a variable income with freelancing (my parents have both been freelancers for as long as I can remember). But I suppose working on commission counts too.

 

[Perknose]

Real mature fella. You have to pay your part. Do you think brown people the world over are just going to oppress themselves?

:awe: :awe: :awe:

 

[rudeguy]

Yeah it makes sense if your income fluctuates. It was confusing to me because your OP talked about being in an office, and I normally associate a variable income with freelancing (my parents have both been freelancers for as long as I can remember). But I suppose working on commission counts too.

yeah...its for sure a game. I'd love to do freelance work, but I don't think there is a legal freelance salesman type of job.

I don't think I could ever go back to a steady paycheck. If I want to slack off for a week or two, fine. If I want to bust my tail and make more, even better. The downside is that it makes planning things more than a month out a bitch.

 

[lxskllr]

yeah...its for sure a game. I'd love to do freelance work, but I don't think there is a legal freelance salesman type of job.

I don't think I could ever go back to a steady paycheck. If I want to slack off for a week or two, fine. If I want to bust my tail and make more, even better. The downside is that it makes planning things more than a month out a bitch.

How does that work? I thought you worked for a cable company. Don't you have to man the phones when you're there? I'm having trouble thinking of ways to slack in that situation.

 

[rudeguy]

How does that work? I thought you worked for a cable company. Don't you have to man the phones when you're there? I'm having trouble thinking of ways to slack in that situation.

We have 5 sales calls centers with between 150 and 400 sales people at each one. So if its slow, they let us go home early. Besides just not being there, I can make my calls take longer, bullshit with people, just generally slack off. Stop thinking of an Office Space sized office and think more of a Boiler Room type office.

I can find a way to be lazy in any kind of job.

 

[marvdmartian]

I think you're both unfair. I paid in nearly $9K, and am getting back just over $1800. As always, the single people get stiffed the most.

 

[rudeguy]

I think you're both unfair. I paid in nearly $9K, and am getting back just over $1800. As always, the single people get stiffed the most.

thanks for picking up my slack!

 

[Zenmervolt]

Could be getting 0.2% in a passbook savings.

Or could have invested in Ford stock when it was at $2.00/share.

ZV

 

[Sluggo]

more taxes ---> lower government deficits ---> less running up the national debt

Many people, myself included, believe that:

More taxes---> congress spends the extra taxes in addition to what they were overspending before---> deficits continue to bloom---> national debt grows exponentially---> lots of finger pointing in Washington DC----> taxpayers get the dry gritty shaft

 

[BoomerD]

Plaid

Check

I fixed that...even the plaid image says: "scottish-plaid-seamless-pattern." BUT, you're Welsh...so I can understand your confusion...youse British folks spell lots of words incorrectly. :biggrin:

Nice try though...

 

[WelshBloke]

I fixed that...even the plaid image says: "scottish-plaid-seamless-pattern." BUT, you're Welsh...so I can understand your confusion...youse British folks spell lots of words incorrectly. :biggrin:

Nice try though...

Plaid = tartan
Check =\= tartan

And my confusion is mostly due to codeine and sloe gin at the mo :awe:

 

[Patranus]

I don't get it.
It just means you overpaid taxes while she didn't.
Its not like you gets more money.
She is simply showing how stupid she is with finance and the fact she probably doest have savings.

 

[Paladin3]

Many people, myself included, believe that:

More taxes---> congress spends the extra taxes in addition to what they were overspending before---> deficits continue to bloom---> national debt grows exponentially---> lots of finger pointing in Washington DC----> taxpayers get the dry gritty shaft

This.

 

[sandorski]

I have no idea how to answer your question, but I know what you mean. I was just outside and some kid was yelling "Whore" at some deer. WTF is that about?

 

[Ns1]

I have no idea how to answer your question, but I know what you mean. I was just outside and some kid was yelling "Whore" at some deer. WTF is that about?

 

[alkemyst]

I'd question what's wrong with both of you. 2K and 7K is way to much to loan the government interest free.

what's the yield on that money vs the risk of underpayment penalty?

If you are floating 5 figures or more is about the only time you need to worry about that.

It's like the idiots that think paying their bills as the last minute saves them that interest on $100-200 only to be hit with $20-50 late fees a few times a year.

 

[highland145]

Or we could quit being the world's police, and running to the rescue every time a country needs something.

AMEN TO THAT. Also, the worlds social security check.

Or could have invested in Ford stock when it was at $2.00/share.

ZV

Hindsight, but yes.

 

[SuperjetMatt]

Democrat, huh?

Its my fucking money. I earned it.

Do you know how much the government earned? NOTHING.

Do you use public roads? Public education? Any other government services?
Are you perhaps benefiting somehow from living in a society with a social structure, law and order, and such?

 

[Rage187]

We paid 18k in and owe another $400. Fuggers

 

[PingSpike]

Lower taxes ---> more money in people's pocket ---> more spending ---> more manufacturing/sales ---> more taxes (and a better economy).

Then again, some people think that more taxes ---> more government spending ---> something good I have not figured out yet.

MotionMan

Sorry, I'll clue you in:

more taxes ---> more government spending ---> everyone gets free shit ---> Work sucks and the free shit is pretty awesome so I don't have to work anymore ---> Everyone sits on their ass and doesn't work and its awesome, thanks government