Anyone interested in joining me in returning my tax-cut?

[maxrandb]

I have been seriously pondering this as a form of individual protest, but would like to form a group if enough folks feel like I do.

Look, I am an active duty military member with 26 years of service. I do "OK" financially, not wealthy, not poor, middle to upper-middle with a mortgage, credit card bills and kids in college, but I'm doing OK.

I figure that the cut I get in my taxes under the proposal amounts to about the equivalent of an extra 12-pack of beer a week, if I drank that much, (which I don't). I'm a bit of a beer and coffee snob. I'm not talking Pabst Blue Ribbon or Ole Milwaukee, but Sierra Nevada Pale Ale or Old Brown Dog Ale from the Smutty Nose Brewery.

I look at my kids and I think of the kind of country we are leaving them. Thanks to some benefits and savings, I can afford to pay for their college, or at least help them with the loans, BUT THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO DO THAT FOR THEIR KIDS.

My daughter has a full-time job without benefits that keeps her just above water. She is doing a similar job that I did back in 1976-1980...but here's the kicker...SHE IS PAID LESS PER HOUR THAN I WAS ALMOST 30 YEARS AGO.

Would the tax-cut I get come in handy? Sure it would, but is it worth it?

Maybe I'm just being a bit like Pollyanna, but if enough people would join in a protest like this, would it help?

[robinlynne]

1. I would love ALL our taxcuts to go to providing food and shelter for the poor.

I dont think people on a mass scale would join in. but I like how you think.

[maxrandb]

2. I was thinking about starting a Facebook Group of something

but I'd probably get laughed out of town!

[robinlynne]

6. No. Some of us would admire and respect you for it.

But to make a real difference it would be better to stop the taxcuts......

Maybe urge people to action in another way, besides just giving up our tax cuts?

anyway if you do the page, let us know and we'll sign on.

[Arctic Dave]

3. Sounds like a good idea.

When I get my Alaskan Dividend I give to different non-profits and charities.

[maxrandb]

9. I donate to charities as well

I guess I'm looking at this as more of an attempt to get some publicity to the point that "we get what we pay for".

Perhaps if enough people..not millionaires and billionaires...but just ordinary average folks who could do without the extra 12-pack of beer a week organized to refuse, or return the cut, it would change the mindset. Maybe people would realize we are mortgaging the future of our country for what amounts to an extra 12-pack of beer a week.

[Ozymanithrax]

4. Sorry, no...

Mine will go to my sons' college fund.

[T Wolf]

5. How about this. A delivery to the White House gate, IN PENNIES, of the amount.

they can pass it along to charities and we could get some publicity.

On your goal of helping your children and grandchildren - as more of us learn that we will not be able to help our kids (and certainly not our grandchildren), maybe a little reality will sink in enough to prompt some change.

[robinlynne]

7. nice.

[pscot]

8. If you can get one bond trader to agree

you can count me in.

[rucky]

10. I gave at the office.

Until the office gave me a pink slip.

Time for the 2-percenters to make the sacrifices. I'm done.

[Drale]

11. Well I don't have a job or get unemployment right now

so I really don't get to "enjoy" the tax cuts they are forcing on us.

EDIT: Did anyone every think anyone would say the government is forcing tax cuts on us?

[ecstatic]

12. I'm surprised this doesn't have more recs nt

[TBF]

13. Keep it in the bank for your retirement - you're going to need it

because social security is not going to be there much longer.

[customerserviceguy]

20. Yep, my 2%, should this abomination pass

is going directly to my 401K account, which I keep in money market funds.

[Delphinus]

14. If I was going to be getting one,

sure. As it is, I'm lucky to make a little less than $23,000 per year. Don't think I'm going to be lucky enough to get any kind of cut.

[katnapped]

15. Yes, he took mine

I hope the Waltons enjoy it...maybe for a few minutes of warmth in the fireplace

[Johonny]

16. maybe we should pool them together and buy us a politician

[theophilus]

17. Well, I'm afraid I'm not getting one. I fall in that group that might

get an increase. How nice.

[hfojvt]

18. I did that for the last two years, but this year I am reversing it

The last time I filed my taxes I had a refund of $700 coming to me. Instead of taking it, I put it in the column "apply to next year's taxes". In that way you can LEND your tax cut to the government at 0% interest until such time as the government displeases you when you can ask for it all back.

Such is the situation I find myself in. THe Obama adminstration has grreatly displeased me, so I am gonna ask for it all back instead of lending it to our country. If billionaires don't have to pay slightly more in taxes thanks to Obama, then why the fuck should I make a contribution either?

[lunatica]

19. If it didn't involve the IRS I would, but I've tangled with them before

It isn't pretty. And the IRS wins.