When Was The Last Time You Cried?

[Mooney]

i'm kinda house poor. don't buy a quarter million dollar condo on a single income.

[reprise85]

Can I just say it is actually amazing that we as a country have programs to help those who are disabled and old and poor and it is in fact a mark of an advanced ethical society. Imagine getting people in the middle ages to pay for intensive therapy for people with mental illnesses. Our society should actually be praised for our social services, as much improvement as they still need.

[slunken]

lol at moon man

[sppunk]

Originally Posted by reprise85

I don't live on $12,000, I am on a program called Ticket to Work for people getting off disability and I soon will have to take out school loans. However, I also spend about $6000 on medical care every year, plus my $105 a month Medicare Part B and $25 for my Part D. Plus you know, normal medical care. This is just disability related I am counting in the 6k.

So I end up living on about $16,000 after disability related expenses. For rent, car, food, gas, taxes, other medical expenses, insurances, etc.

Does it bother you that your taxes help fund programs for people like me to get back in the workforce? Or is it just about the gov't taking money from you in general? Serious question, curious.

I'm not complaining, btw, about my income. I will be off of TTW in the next about two years and my education will cost about twice as much starting next year when I go to a different school. Right now my Pell grant covers all of it. Soon I will have to come up with about $5k a year for it on top the grants. I should get some scholarships, maybe enough for all of it but probably not.

No funded programs doesn't bother me at all, more money should go to those. My issue is the governments taxation on money it imo has no right to touch or investments it has no right in interfering in.

My business taxes are out of control. It's a deterrent to doing business which is an ideological counterpoint to America's economic philosophy.

[reprise85]

How should the government put more money towards social programs if you don't want them tax businesses as much? What would you have them stop funding (as much) - the military perhaps?

[sppunk]

Originally Posted by reprise85

How should the government put more money towards social programs if you don't want them tax businesses as much? What would you have them stop funding (as much) - the military perhaps?

It's a usage issue to me. Money isn't used correctly. Small biz taxes are astronomically high, capital gains taxes are as well. Yet that money isn't being used well.

[Mooney]

Originally Posted by sppunk

It's a usage issue to me. Money isn't used correctly. Small biz taxes are astronomically high, capital gains taxes are as well. Yet that money isn't being used well.

capital gains tax should be doubled.

[yo soy el mejor]

Originally Posted by Mooney

i'm kinda house poor. don't buy a quarter million dollar condo on a single income.

thanks for the tip

[Mooney]

that wasn't just the tip. i was balls deep.

[slunken]

[Trotskilicious]

sppun. took a beautiful, pure thread about sadness and turned it into money

[Trotskilicious]

i will say your taxes almost entirely go to killing and oppressing ppl at home and abroad

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by sppunk

No funded programs doesn't bother me at all, more money should go to those. My issue is the governments taxation on money it imo has no right to touch or investments it has no right in interfering in.

My business taxes are out of control. It's a deterrent to doing business which is an ideological counterpoint to America's economic philosophy.

are you posting from another reality?

[Trotskilicious]

commie fury approaching 9000

[Trotskilicious]

the sad irony ofc being that if the weathy did pay taxes most of it would be spent on drones and assault weapons and urban assault vehicles

[Trotskilicious]

so fuck it

[Mooney]

you know someone complaining about capital gains tax is a complete fucktard.

so you click a button with your mouse and invest a bunch of money in a company because you're rich. this money earns a decent return while you do absolutely fuck all. you then have the gall to bitch and moan that you have to pay less than half the taxes on that income that someone who actually worked for a similar income would have to. how cute.

i say this as someone who is about to pay capital gains tax to the government.

[yo soy el mejor]

sell your condo and get something cuter

[yo soy el mejor]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

commie fury approaching 9000

lol

[Mooney]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

sell your condo and get something cuter

cuter?

i bought i condo because my rent went up four years in row...well above inflation. currently i spend like $150/month more to own than it would cost to rent it my building. It just makes sense financially.

[SuckSuckStyle]

wednesday evening when my parents left for the airport. they visited for 3 weeks and it was great. i'm not sure when i'll see them again. it's generally about once a year.

[LaBelle]

days since the last incident: 3

my friends have been doing a good job of not letting me by myself for long stretches of time

[kelsome]

I think last monday. I was upset about possibly dumping/hurting someones feelings. I know I'm giving mixed messages to this person. Also I forgot my pills the night before.

[dreams of glass]

Originally Posted by toase

I wept at work today watching a stupid youtube video
I'm getting more and more sensitive as I age

I've always been emotional, but as I get older, and especially when I've been working a lot little things will set me off

the other day someone asked me what was wrong because I seemed down and I almost lost it, like I almost broke down sobbing in front of co-workers

I gotta get a vacation soon