[quote author="WestparkRenter" date=1224634776][quote author="WINEX" date=1224583395][quote author="CalGal" date=1224570018][quote author="skek" date=1224548683]Here's the response I got: "<em>You will probably not get a tax cut under the Obama-Biden plan.</em>"
How nice. I must not be paying my fair share. Maybe they should offer a tax increase calculator that tells me how much more they will be taking from me, and to whom they plan to "spread the wealth around?"
Sorry, I couldn't resist.</blockquote>
At least you got a nice response.
When I did the calculator, I received the following response:
"Don't plan on getting a dime. You will have to pay more taxes."</blockquote>
If Obama was honest, it would say that for everyone!</blockquote>
I received this from an email, it simplifies the tax cut that I can understand.
<blockquote>Joe Biden wrote this:
Ahaha just got this email.. Great representation of Obamas tax plan..50,000 people go to a baseball game, but the game was rained out. A refund was then due. Originally the refunds were to be paid based on the price each person had paid for the tickets. Unfortunately that meant most of the refund money would be going to the ticket holders who had purchased the most expensive tickets. This, according to the DNC, is considered totally unfair. A decision was then made to pay out the refunds in this manner:
- People in the $10 seats will get back $15. After all, thy have less money to spend on tickets to begin with. Call it an 'Earned Income Ticket Credit.' Persons 'earn' it by having few skills, poor work habits, and low ambition, thus keeping them at entry-level wages.
- People in the $25 seats will get back $25, because it 'seems fair.'
- People in the $50 seats will get back $1 because they already make a lot of money and don't need a refund. After all, if they can afford a $50 ticket, they must not be paying enough taxes.
- People in the $75 luxury box seats will each have to pay an additional $25 because it's the 'right thing to do.'
- People walking past the stadium who couldn't afford to buy a ticket for the game each will get a $10 refund, even though they didn't pay anything for the tickets. They need the most help. Now do you understand?
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Err, no.
It's more like this:
Two guys sit in a 5000 sq foot private box which they paid 5 million for off the 30 million of proceeds they received from sales to the masses watching the game. They get no money back for their 5 million "loss". They are highly pissed and call everyone a bunch of socialist commie pigs and can't figure out how they are going to manage to survive in the world on their remaining 25 million dollars.
That five million gets used to give various refunds to the couple thousand attendees. Where did the original ticket money go? It was supposed to go into stadium upgrades and services, but the owners were drunk at the time and they might have spent some of it on drugs.. and some other stuff, like giving cash incentives to the guys in the private box to buy the private box. But maybe you noticed the new hot dog stand!
A group of day laborers outside watch the game on TVs for free and pay $5 for a hot dog. They get back $5. They promptly take the new $5 and go buy another hot dog.
