Regarding the "stimulus" package that apparently is gonna go through:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2008012401981
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Full rebates would be sent to single taxpayers who earned up to $75,000 and couples with incomes of as much as $150,000. The value of the payments would decline after that and phase out entirely at incomes of roughly $87,000 for individuals and $174,000 for joint filers.
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I fucking HATE so-called progressive tax systems. They make absolutely no rational sense.
I don't get it. Because I didn't make a stupid decision and buy a house I couldn't afford and am successful enough to make over $87k a year I don't deserve a tax refund? Yet people who paid far less taxes than me (both percentage and total) do? Oh, and heterosexuals. Can't have a decent rant without bitching about them.
What kind of fucked up system is this? Why do we reward people for not succeeding? Gah. It's such fucking bullshit.
So. Yeah. This is actually one of the main reasons I don't donate to charity. If Government wants to get their nose involved in it then I figure they can do it all on their own. They tax me enough to, anyway.
So. Fucking. Retarded.
Anyone else remember the "free bread and entertainment" lessons of Rome?
OK, that was going too far, I know.
Still. At best this is going to cause an economic blip upwards for a month or two. At worse it's going to do nothing, solidify the nanny state and make millions of earners who earn more than the cap pissed off.
And why are we still rewarding extravagant reproduction? Is it 1950 or something?
Fucking wankers.
More arena.