Originally Posted By: Alfred_B
Originally Posted By: Bladecutter
Originally Posted By: otis24
I just want to keep the money I earn. Not have it confiscated by the government and given to those in society who make poor choices.
Work off the books, or work for your companies as private contractors, and you can send in your tax payments on a quarterly basis.
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Crow Creek Reservation near me has been deemed the poorest area in the nation. I know people who choose not to work, that routinely receive $8k to $9k in Earned Income Credit. McDonalds is routinely begging for workers. They start at $9/hr.
Again, you're concerning yourself with how other people choose to live their lives.
You can't control or change them.
The law says that if people who file their taxes meet certain economic parameters, they get xxxx amount of money off of their taxes.
Ask yourself this:
Can you support your family if you dropped all your jobs, and made only $15k a year, or less?
That's what these people have to figure out how to survive on.
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My wife is on the board for the local women's shelter. They had one resident who was making no effort to get a job. It was suggested that she should go there for an application. She replied, "Oh, I could never work there. I dont like their uniforms.". We have become a nation of beggars who want to be choosers. They have become addicted to OPM (Other People's Money).
Again, some other person, out of your control.
Go burn down her house, so that she can suffer as much as you are, by paying taxes, if you need something to feel good about.
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Increasingly, we have a gov't that is too willing to give it to them in exchange for votes. When the number of takers outnumber the makers, and we've almost reached that point, our economy will collapse. Society will devolve into chaos because people want to get "theirs". Unfortunately, they havent learned that what they think is "theirs" actually belongs to someone else.
Both parties take money and votes from anyone willing to hand it to them.
The politicians give themselves raises every year, no matter how much they screw things up and bottleneck the workings. They create new conflicts to send young men and women to their deaths at, and no one takes any responsibility for the laws that they pass that lead to the deaths of defenseless children in schools, because the gun industry pays politicians more money than school teachers do.
Our society, government, and economy is quite a long ways away from collapsing.
Nothing you do, short of running for office yourself, and changing things from the inside, will ever make the government run the way you want it to.
So, go run for office, and become a politician.
Very easy, and according to people like you, you don't need to do anything except sell your soul. But then you won't have to work so hard, and you get really good health care benefits.
BC.
Bolded the good advice in the quote.
Don't judge others lest you be judged. We are all going through this life, we all face some form of difficulty.
Not judging others. We all face difficulties. That isn't the problem. The problem is how we CHOOSE to FACE UP to those difficulties. The choices others make are their business, up and until I and the rest of society have to subsidize those bad choices. Then, it is our concern.