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Two income 250k folks are going to be thrown to the wolves by zero.
I have a hard time seeing how these doctor/lawyer working types could EVER vote DIM again once they see what happens in the next fiscal year.
Whatever he takes in taxes I save and do not spend. Poor service workers or maybe I should just call them the soon to be unemployed.
Barry and his liberal allies in Congress have killed the American Dream. The Oppression of hardworking Americans has stifiled Proactive Self Starters who want to make it because they see the government raping them for trying to be successful.
Not only won’t you get the credit for your work and ideas the government will demand more and the scary part is that the GOVERNMENT IS US.
I’m telling you it’s isn’t just the people who make six figures. I work my ass off at a day job plus I freelance alot and I barely make 35k. What I have seen as I have slowly and arduously climbed to the staggering heights of my tiny ladder, is that is doesn’t pay hardly to work hard to make more money. Especially once your kids are gone and you lose those deductions. This year I am going to be smarter about deducting every dime I can because of my freelance “business” which may offset some of the gubmint money grab.
But between higher tax rate and increased cost of health insurance I bring home about $150 a week less than I did a couple of years ago, and I actually make more per hour now than back then. Right now I don’t even think I would want a raise.
I’ll be 61 this month. I’m looking for ways to seriously reduce my income.
The instant the pre-Election polls declared that Obamination and the kleptocrats would have a sweeping victory, the U.S. economy promptly collapsed.
I am convinced that there is a mass “Who is John Galt?” phenomenon, as the productive Americans have simply decided they will not work for Obama and the democrat’s higher taxes.
All the former 'luxury tax' did was put a lot of blue collar luxury builders and sellers out of work.
I’m ready to quit.
If this type of high-income dodging to avoid heavy taxes becomes popular enough, employers will respond by paying lower salaries BUT with lots of non-pecuniary benefits (trips, cars, fine dining, etc.).
I hate Obama. I’m not ashamed to say it. I hate him because he acts like he has a greater claim on what I earn than I do. I hate him, and his fellow socialists in Congress and every leech who voted for him who has been raised to think that someone else should be paying their bills. I will not be his slave.
Yes. And the federal government won’t take it too well if those people start trading their services (barter economy). Watch for some policy to prevent that.
I would suggest a “work slowdown.” Isn’t that really what the Obamites want? It’s a standard union tactic, so let’s give them what they want, and see if they like it.
On the other hand, I’ve found that I don’t need to intentionally slow down my work in this economy. There just isn’t as much work to do.
At some point, though, when they have their backs against the wall, it might even be worth slowing down from our already slow pace just so that we can let these politicians explain why their ideas did not work.
>> Frank: “I and other anesthesiologists simply worked less”
Add to that the likely elimination of Bush’s rule that protects health care workers from forced participation in abortion.
Just when you start to feel like you are winning the rat race, along comes faster rats.
Peering into my crystal ball, I see nothing but static. What Obama and his hordes are doing to America has no precedent in American history. Without precedent, trying to predict the reaction and eventual outcome amounts to skyballing.
Myself, I am hunkering down. Buy it new, wear it out. Use less, do without. I made the last major purchase I plan for this year when I bought this new computer (although I will make software upgrades). My television is 15 years old and when it finally dies, will not be replaced. I don’t have a car, I don’t have a credit card, I have no debt.
Since they can’t squeeze blood from a turnip, I think I am pretty safe.
Yes, the word we’re looking for here is “slavery.”
Socialism demands that the most productive members of society cheerfully work for free more than half the year so that parasites can sit on their rear ends and do nothing. That’s slavery.
Everybody better realize that these people just don’t care. Right now we only tax income, when they get full power after the rigged 2010 elections they will go after taxing wealth and assets since income taxes will simply not generate the cash they need. They also know that money, like guns, is a source of power and they want to have a monopoly in that department. These people are about power, fairness, equality are just slogans they use to dupe the ignorant into following them.
Don’t work for the looters.