August 23, 2008 — Jan Helfeld interviews Senator Harry Reid about redistributive taxes. Reid maintains redistributive taxes are not a problem because people are not forced to pay taxes. He says taxation is voluntary. How and why does Harry Reid get into this bind and make such a preposterous statement? If Nancy Pelosi is dumber than dirt, then Harry has had too much Nevada sun. His brain must be cooked.

Currently, the top 1% of earners pay 40% of the taxes. John McCain favors maintaining this absurdly unfair situation. Barack Obama wants to loot the top 1% even more.

If we’re going to have taxes, how exactly is it "fair" to have different people pay different amounts? What other organization charges people more if they are rich than if they are poor? If we were to reform the tax system to be fair (everybody pays the exact same amount), would we finally see a reduction in the size of government instead of the bigger and bigger government that Democrats and Republicans support?

Alternately, couldn’t we abolish taxation and run the government by voluntary contributions? Would a system of competing firms in the area of protecting person and property from criminals be superior to the current system?

Should McCain and Obama be ashamed of themselves for their shameful act of advocating socialistic economic policies?

This year I have been working for a company that pays cash, with no taxes taken out. I’m kind of worried cause next year when I file for taxes I might not qualify for the earned income child credit. I went to the H&R Block website to try their tax calculator, to get an estimate of what I might be getting next year. I put I got "another source of income ", and the results say I won’t be getting anything back, but I put "self employed" and I might be getting something back. So do I say I was self employed? Also I know I’m gonna have to pay alot of back taxes, how do I know how much I’m gonna have to pay back?

What is the difference between payroll software and a payroll service?
Im a business studies student and wondered whether the only difference is that a payroll service is internet-based? Or is there more to it? Is this the case for all payroll services? Any advantages and disadvantages of each type of payroll managing method would be very helpful. Thank you.

Open Payroll is a online accounting software. Check the software from www.openpayroll.org when you register it will give you 30 days trial period. It is just only per month. In website you will find a lot of video tutorial, which will help you to operate the software. The spoftware is developed by Rajib Roy (+971566027916)

This is the Democratic Leader. Is he showing his profound stupidity or is he just the stupidest liar in America? You just cannot make this stuff up!

tony tedeschi try not paying your taxes and come back and tell what has happened to you!

I don’t want to sound cold or like i’m doing it for the wrong reasons, but is there any kind of tax deduction for volunteering to be a big bro/big sis? It doesn’t make any sense that they’d give tax breaks for people giving money to recruit volunteers but not give breaks to those who do volunteer
if there are no breaks can someone put what they normally make per hour and consider it a donation? Giving money would be easier for me, and apparently more beneficial, but I think it’d do more good to give time

My wife was born in and is resident in the UK, but she is also a US citizen. She does not and has never paid any US tax. She has paid UK tax for the last 30 years. Her father died recently and his estate is being split between 3 siblings. What does she have to do regarding her inheritance, as she can’t pay US tax? Does she therefore have to pay UK inheritance tax? Is there a limit on the amount she has to pay on an overseas estate?

Regarding Obama’s proposal to lift the cap on the payroll tax (Which could increase effective tax rates to over 50% just federally in the maximum brackets, according to the WSJ) – what do you think of this argument.

I am so against this proposal personally. But when talking with a friend the other day who is self employed. He told me that he really needs about ,000 to live comfortably each year, but as it stands now it is a goal of his every year to earn as much as he can over 0,000 and work as hard as possible to earn as much over the 0k threshhold because his effective tax rate GEOS DOWN about 15% because Payroll taxes are no longer collected. He still pays i think 28% federally- but no payroll tax.

So he said he’d have no motivation to earn more than 100k and would just work a lot less if the cap was lifted. He said his motivation to earn more than that amount would be gone if the cap was lifted.

So what do you think could this proposal actually hurt the economy more?

I am a National Guardsman. I served in Iraq in 2004… all of 2004. My Iraq time vs. Iraq time now is considerably diffferent. I was Extremely opposed to my wife volunteering for a deployment to Iraq. Unfortunately, my wife is always searching for constant approval from her mother. Her mother (an apex, alpha female) encouraged my wife into going on the deployment for the "employment opportunity" that it presents.
The deployment has been tough for me and the mom has been constantly putting ideas in my wife’s head not at all supportive of me. A few weeks ago, I received an email that read, "I’ve decided to join the State Department and live a life abroad working in International Deplomacy". I asked how I fit into that, and she stopped communicating with me. My wife then started telling her family and friends that I was clingy and crazy. The more I tried to save the marriage, the more clingy and crazy I appeared. Last week, she hired an attorney and wants a divorce. I live in Virginia (i should probably mention that fact).
When she departed on the deployment she left me with @15K in debt she had coming into the marriage. During the entire deployment – now 4 months in, I have not received one dime from her. Her attorney has ordered a protective order keeping me from the marital home and my wife’s property – real and otherwise. I’ve also been told by her attorney that I can’t contact anyone in the military. (ummmm, I work for the military as a Department of the Army Civilian)
I’ve hired an attorney. My question. WHAT THE FU#@ AM CAN I DO? I am very spiritual and have a lot of problems with divorces as this will be my second. 1st divorce came after my deployment.
I want to save the marriage but I have mentally prepared myself that it’s over. HOWEVER; I am not conceding any of the pay and allowances that are due to me…. Please tell me what I can do.