OT: A Step-by-Step Guide to Complaining About Your Taxes

[arebelspy]

http://www.collegehumor.com/post/6963671/how-to-complain-about-your-taxes-a-step-by-step-guide

I particularly liked 5: Say it isn't fair:

If you're rich, complain about all the freeloaders who get to just keep all $19,000 they made last year to themselves, and if you're poor, complain about how rich people ought to pay more. If you're in the middle class, it's even easier: just complain about EVERYONE.

6 was good too though.

[jordanread]

Good stuff! I hadn't thought too much about my tax rate, but since that other thread had a poll, I calculated it, and may need to print out this list. :-)

Anytime I think of taxes, I always think about the following scene from the new Sleepy Hollow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD0EHX8Bsr4

[dragoncar]

I have to admit that, because I estimate my marriage penalty to be around $10k/year, I may just start complaining about taxes for the first time in my life (also, AMT, which sucks extra hard in CA with high state taxes and high real estate prices -- the two biggest potential deductions).

edit: AMT does not necessarily exclude home mortgage interest

[sheepstache]

Wait, did you just bury the lede there, Dragoncar?  Are you and the DragonLady owed congratulations??

[arebelspy]

Wait, did you just bury the lede there, Dragoncar?

I never knew lead == lede in that saying.  Thanks for the education!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_paragraph

[dragoncar]

Wait, did you just bury the lede there, Dragoncar?  Are you and the DragonLady owed congratulations??

Ha, yeah good catch and thanks!

[arebelspy]

Wait, did you just bury the lede there, Dragoncar?  Are you and the DragonLady owed congratulations??

Ha, yeah good catch and thanks!

Awesome!  Congrats DC! 

Finding someone to spend your life with is one of the best things ever.  Well done.  :)