Comment on When Xfinity has an outage, I don’t pay for those days. The government’s been shut down for 39 days so can I pay 39 days less in taxes?

• Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dude even if your tax rate is 50%, that means you still earn like 7k per month. That’s so rich, I wouldn’t even know what to do with that amount (except pay off my loan in like 3 months instead of 3 years lol)

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• Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  See the thing about percentages is the amount changes but the relevance to you doesn’t.

  10k for a month is the amount you would expect back after the cost of police, schools, military, and every other functioning service has been taken out of the amount?

  Then you’re making enough money to not be concerned about that 10,000. You’d be losing more money taking time out of your busy day to fill out the hypothetical refund paperwork.

  Wouldn’t you rather been on your yacht than fighting with the government over principle?

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  • himitsu@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Listen, I’m not complaining. I’m just saying I would notice. I like paying taxes to help everyone.

    It does affect me though, because most of my money goes straight into retirement accounts so I’m not taking home “that much” (don’t get me wrong, I still take home enough to be healthy, happy, etc.). But I haven’t had a job for months and I’d rather not dip into retirement so that 10k would be appreciated right now. But of course I have a backup plan, most people do not. So yeah I think most people would like having to not pay taxes during a government shutdown.

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    • Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not a tax expert but I was mostly thinking of payroll taxes. What kind of taxes are you paying while unemployed?

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