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Ameer wrote:

anygunanywhere wrote:If someone making less than $36,000.00 a year pays any taxes they are doing something wrong.

I will have less income than that this year but I have to pay 14% of everything I earn to the FICA Fairy (more like an evil troll) plus $850 on my first $18000 of income, plus 15% on everything over $18000 if I earn that much.

Help a brother out. What am I doing wrong?

Are you self-employed? Because our small-business friendly government has a tax code that's exceedingly unfriendly towards small businesses and those who are self-employed. Seriously... if you're a renter and are self-employed, your taxes are way higher than someone who's make the same pay at say Best Buy. It seems employers pay half of your social security and medicare/medicaid taxes, but it's done behind the scenes so that money isn't technically part of your paycheck. Therefor, if your paycheck is low enough that you don't have much of an income tax, and you switch to being self-employed and make about the same amount, your tax burden just about doubles on an already low paycheck.

RPB wrote:Occupy DC to secede from the United States

They are drafting a Constitution

(He thinks USA drafted Constitution in 1775, poor uneducated fellow)

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So... They're going to declare themselves a sovereign nation? Wouldn't that make them foreign hostile invaders? Who's authorized to surrender on their behalf when they realize they forgot ammo?

74novaman wrote:

Dave2 wrote:The annoying thing is, I read somewhere that if you were to sum up all the occupiers' frustrations into one statement, it would be "we demand separation of corporation and state", which I agree with; they're just being so bloody distasteful while they say it. And I'm not even sure they really are saying that, since they seem to shun any form of leadership that could speak on their behalf.

I know we're supposed to judge the message rather than the messenger, but these people make that really hard.

Some of them may indeed be decrying corporate influence in politics...but a lot of them are supporting Obama, who received (big gasp here) a HUGE amount of money from Wall Street.

That gets back to them not having any leadership structure... anyone can claim to be their leader and represent them, but I'll bet that'll be news to the actual protesters. Most of them seem to be using the protests as an excuse to run amok.

What they're really advocating is the use of government (force) to seize money from "the rich" so they won't have to work.

That certainly seems to be the case with the ones that Fox News interviewed.

I just hope they all run out of weed, get bored, and go home soon so we can start talking about something that involves people who shower.

The annoying thing is, I read somewhere that if you were to sum up all the occupiers' frustrations into one statement, it would be "we demand separation of corporation and state", which I agree with; they're just being so bloody distasteful while they say it. And I'm not even sure they really are saying that, since they seem to shun any form of leadership that could speak on their behalf.

I know we're supposed to judge the message rather than the messenger, but these people make that really hard.