Patting the wrists, rolling the eyes.

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Originally posted by Col_Nathan_Jessup
Socialist pussy

DID YOU ORDER THE CODE RED??

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
How could you not see the trainwreck coming? Too many unholy alliances. Or too many holy ones.

Speaking of holy things:

This is pretty fucking awesome. (blog)

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Speaking of holy things:

This is pretty fucking awesome. (blog)

I like him, specially how his daddy helped the nigra. Maybe you could PM counsel SS or Fringey and them with this bit:

IT'S JUST PLAIN NOT RIGHT TO TREAT FOLKS LIKE THEY DON'T COUNT---LIKE THEY'RE NOT REAL PEOPLE.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by whoopassman
Greetings greedy pols;

Periodic lurker, first time poster (here, I formerly posted at Infirmation under a few monikers, such as mysterious guest and david).

Seeing as tax has been a recent topic and tax day is tomorrow, my query is, assuming I am a single, making a couple of hundred K and have avoided the dreaded AMT, is 14.2% a good effective tax rate or do I need to be a bit more aggressive with my deductions?

thanks.

I'd be happy with a ETR of 14.2%. As for getting more aggressive with your deductions, I'll let someone else advise you on that. But if you do, remember that I do tax controversy work when the appropriate time comes and PM me. I'll give you the GA discount.

[whoopassman]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I'd be happy with a ETR of 14.2%. As for getting more aggressive with your deductions, I'll let someone else advise you on that. But if you do, remember that I do tax controversy work when the appropriate time comes and PM me. I'll give you the GA discount.

Thanks. I'll put you in my rolodex-should it be wonk, tax or taxwonk? And I realize that all things considered 14.2% is not bad, although I remember reading during the 04 election campaign that Madame Kerry paid something like 12% ETR in '03 and I figured what's good for the goose shoud trickle down to the gander, to mix a metaphor.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Speaking of holy things:

This is pretty fucking awesome. (blog)

That was great.

I think the basic concepts of Christianity are:

1) Acceptance of everyone (judge not so ye be not judged)
2) Try to be humble and not conceited (the biggest sin is pride or self conceit).

Being the smartest and coolest guy on the planet, it is realy hard for me to adopt number 2.

[Colonel_Nathan_Jessup]

Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
DID YOU ORDER THE CODE RED??

If I did, would your candy ass still be here?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I like him, specially how his daddy helped the nigra. Maybe you could PM counsel SS or Fringey and them with this bit:

IT'S JUST PLAIN NOT RIGHT TO TREAT FOLKS LIKE THEY DON'T COUNT---LIKE THEY'RE NOT REAL PEOPLE.

What about socks?

[Anntila the Hun]

Originally posted by Spanky
That was great.

I think the basic concepts of Christianity are:

1) Acceptance of everyone (judge not so ye be not judged)
2) Try to be humble and not conceited (the biggest sin is pride or self conceit).

Being the smartest and coolest guy on the planet, it is realy hard for me to adopt number 2.

You are wrong. Why am I not surprised? You've already demonstrated yourself to be a Democrap in sheep's clothing.

If you knew anything about Christianity at all, you'd know that the basic concepts of Christianity are:
[list=1][*]There is no god but the Christian God of the King James Bible. There is no Yahweh, and God is no fat lazyass Buddah, and certainly no illiterate pedophilic Mohammed. [*]All nonbelievers are to be granted a chance to convert. If they don't, we can convert them at the end of a sword (or M16, or whatever weapon you can carry thanks to the wisdom of the Divinely-inspired forefathers who immortalized the Second AMENdment.[*]All good Republicans are already halfway to eternal bliss, and all Dumbocrats are automatically consigned to the eternal agony of the flames of Hell. Good riddance - may God speed the coming of that day ![/list=1]

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by whoopassman
Thanks. I'll put you in my rolodex-should it be wonk, tax or taxwonk? And I realize that all things considered 14.2% is not bad, although I remember reading during the 04 election campaign that Madame Kerry paid something like 12% ETR in '03 and I figured what's good for the goose shoud trickle down to the gander, to mix a metaphor.

Well, you could always up your charitable contributions. And there's no need to put me in your Rolodex. I'm around pretty often. It's not like I work for a living.

Originally posted by taxwonk
Well, you could always up your charitable contributions.

I'll tell you one thing, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to find out you owe alternative minimum taxes. Oh the humanity!

I thought Bush was taking care of big fat greedy lawyer cats like me. How am I supposed to accumulate an obscenely ginormous estate to pass on tax-free to my parisitic offspring with this kind of shit going on?

[Watchtower]

Originally posted by Anntila the Hun
You are wrong. Why am I not surprised? You've already demonstrated yourself to be a Democrap in sheep's clothing.

If you knew anything about Christianity at all, you'd know that the basic concepts of Christianity are:
[list=1][*]There is no god but the Christian God of the King James Bible. There is no Yahweh, and God is no fat lazyass Buddah, and certainly no illiterate pedophilic Mohammed. [*]All nonbelievers are to be granted a chance to convert. If they don't, we can convert them at the end of a sword (or M16, or whatever weapon you can carry thanks to the wisdom of the Divinely-inspired forefathers who immortalized the Second AMENdment.[*]All good Republicans are already halfway to eternal bliss, and all Dumbocrats are automatically consigned to the eternal agony of the flames of Hell. Good riddance - may God speed the coming of that day ![/list=1]

Every time I check in here, one of you guys reminds me of how similar the Republican Evangelicals are to the Fundamentalist Islamic crowd.

I miss Jimmy Carter. <<sniff, snifff>> (Did I do this part right?)

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by whoopassman
Thanks. I'll put you in my rolodex-should it be wonk, tax or taxwonk? And I realize that all things considered 14.2% is not bad, although I remember reading during the 04 election campaign that Madame Kerry paid something like 12% ETR in '03 and I figured what's good for the goose shoud trickle down to the gander, to mix a metaphor.

Sure. The more senior my Senator spouse becomes, the more aggressive I am with my deductions.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ironweed
I'll tell you one thing, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to find out you owe alternative minimum taxes. Oh the humanity!

I thought Bush was taking care of big fat greedy lawyer cats like me. How am I supposed to accumulate an obscenely ginormous estate to pass on tax-free to my parisitic offspring with this kind of shit going on?

That's what you get for using TurboTax. If you just did your return manually, you'd never even have looked at the AMT and assumed it didn't apply to you. And you'd have gotten away with it because nobody at the IRS knows how the fuck it works, either.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Spanky
That was great.

I think the basic concepts of Christianity are:

1) Acceptance of everyone (judge not so ye be not judged)
2) Try to be humble and not conceited (the biggest sin is pride or self conceit).

Being the smartest and coolest guy on the planet, it is realy hard for me to adopt number 2.

Social cripples everywhere think you could stand to work on number 1 also.