Generic Other
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:27 AM
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I want names of Americans who oppose this war removed from tax rolls |
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Edited on Sun Aug-28-05 10:27 AM by Generic Other
Anyone else?
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:27 AM
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1. Good F'ing luck brother! |
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:28 AM
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3. Well if pro-war folks remove crosses from Camp Casey |
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we who support peace should not be forced to pay for their follies.
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:36 AM
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6. I totally agree, but making that happen is almost impossible.Plus |
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imagine the right wing demagogues spin on that, it would do More harm than good in terms of bringing people into the tent....and if we don't pay taxes it is an excuse to put all us anti war folks in jail.
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:28 AM
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2. I'll back ya, but it aint gonna work. And you might get arrested for |
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sedition or teason or some other made up excuse
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:30 AM
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4. I am trying to give as much as I can to charity so I can deduct |
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as much as possible. I vow to take my tax dollar out of Bush's hand in any way possible.
Cindy has placed half her tax money in an escrow account because of her opposition to paying a war tax.
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:38 AM
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8. Actually very Christian of you...if only the pro war freepers would |
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:53 AM
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13. Can you tell me where you read this |
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about Cindy and the escrow account?
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:15 AM
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17. She said it on one of the radio shows |
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It might have been on Randi or Ed. I also listen to Bradshow.
Best I can do to pin it down. Sorry.
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:57 AM
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15. Other things you can do. Start a home based business. One that |
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would need lots of travel. If you have kids, you can employ your kids and they wouldn't have to pay taxes on the money and neither would you (if it's under the $3000). There are a ton of other tax breaks you get with your own business. I could go on and on.
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:28 AM
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18. How about a PEACE business? |
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If I sell the promotion of peace, can I use my travel bucks to go to peace demonstrations?
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:34 AM
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Plus, when you talk to customers in restaurants, or book people or whatever, you can deduct that money. Mileage for everything you do realted to you business. Set up a web site a 1/2-100% of your isp bill comes off. Use your cell phone for business? Take that off too.
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:37 AM
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24. And all these years I have gladly paid my taxes like a good sheeple |
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The idea of creating a PEACE business is one all DUers should explore.
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:36 AM
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5. my RWingnut sister-in-law doesn't want her taxes supporting abortion OR |
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:37 AM
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7. People did that during the Vietnam war. Didn't hear how it worked out. |
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1/2 the budget went to the military, so people only sent in 1/2 their taxes and told the IRS why.
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:46 AM
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11. Cindy says she did this last year and she hasn't had any problems |
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Anyone know how one goes about doing this?
I pay mucho bucks to the IRS. I want to pay much less next year.
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:53 AM
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14. It takes the IRS awhile to catch up on things like this. They have 3 |
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years. Indefinately if you did something illegal.
Here's how you do it.
If you're an employee, increase the number of dependents you have until you paying 1/2 of what you did before or you have 9 dependents. I think 10 is the magic number where you get a call from the IRS.
When you fill out your taxes and you get to the bottom line about how much you owe, you send the governments part to them and the rest goes to an escrow type account. That way, if the IRS charges you, you have this account that is set up to protest the war.
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:39 AM
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:52 AM
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The sound of money being sucked out of our country to feed the war profiteers is intolerable to me.
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:02 AM
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Me too.
Though I figure I better do several more edits before I do anything with it since it garnered so few responses.
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Sun Aug-28-05 10:46 AM
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10. In the 18th Century you only got fire protection if your house |
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had a medallion showing you had paid for the service.
I think the practice should be instituted for military protection.
I, for one, would gladly forgo the protection of the military such as it was on 9/11 and assume the responsibility for defending my own property.
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:30 AM
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19. I have said the same thing about atheists... |
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If this is a "Christian Nation" and I am an atheist, does that mean I still have to pay taxes here?
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:32 AM
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20. We should have a choice of where OUR money goes |
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I'd gladly pay the same amount as long as it went to some org that fed hungry children, provided medical care for those who cannot afford it or some other cause that I agreed with. Those of us who oppose war, should not be forced to pay for it. It makes me sick to think my tax money is going to kill Iraqi civilians.
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:33 AM
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21. Sounds like Cindy agrees with us |
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She has placed half her taxes in an escrow account.
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Sun Aug-28-05 11:36 AM
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23. That's why we have elections. Congress then decides where the |
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