How foolish do you feel?
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The House version of my tax savings seems to have dropped from $1200 to $800 already. My wife and I would qualify for the $24,000 standard deduction they talked about but I guess that must be out the window. That would have pretty much eliminated her income from federal taxes. I have no idea what that would mean for our total tax liability but it sounded good for us even if not so good for the country as a whole.
If someone takes the time to research Ezra Klein, they will realize Duck is in no way interested in the truth.
Partisan bullcrap, stir the pot, retweeting opinions from nobody's , about nothing.
Yawn
Partisan bullcrap, stir the pot, retweeting opinions from nobody's , about nothing.
Yawn
3R Ezra didnt write the article.
He tweeted a link to an article with something called Facts in it.
I didn't see the article but I do know all the stuff about middle class tax cuts is fading away the closer they get making anything happen. I think I'm considered middle class but we might not make enough to be there there these days.
How foolish do you feel?
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...-bill-includes-tax-break-for-private-jets?amp
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...-bill-includes-tax-break-for-private-jets?amp
Works for me, I was planning on getting mine next year. Hope helicopters are on that list too.
Not sure what you are replying to but....
That is a pretty broad-ranging statement. I consider myself a conservative and it's news to me that I hate higher education.
I wonder if you are paying attention to what conservatives in congress say and try to do.
You are also a racist, homophobic, child molesting, white supremicist.
There needs to be no evidence of it either.
I wonder if you were paying attention when you posted the article about the private jet deal.
Maybe he will tell us of the time he had a chance to date a minor, like yourself
Yes I did. And your gang wants to take away the $250 tax credit teachers have for classroom supplies. And nothing like being a grunt GA making $10,000 and having to pay taxes on $60,000 that your gang wants to hang around their neck.
You know, when I posted that true story I figured someone would be too juvenile to handle it. I really thought it would be someone else but sadly i'm not shocked by it being you.
I figured someone on this board was into the young girl thing. Not shocked it being you.
My daughter laughed at the $250 tax credit. She said she easily spends 2 grand a year for various stuff she needs in her class room.
I'm sure big companies need that tax break more than your daughter who is helping to raise our children, You can never help shareholders enough!!
There you go making assumptions again. Why are they "my gang"? Where did I say I support what "conservatives" in Washington are doing? All I said was that I consider myself a conservative, given the 2 choices of liberal or conservative, but that doesn't mean I necessarily align with everything that the Washington "conservatives" are doing.
I can understand the reasoning behind them wanting to do that if getting the waiver is requisite upon performing work (teaching, research assistant, etc.) for the university. In that case it appears that would be part of your wages and therefore taxable. BUT, that also runs contradictory to the fact that we need to make higher education as accessible as we can as that provides value to the country as a whole. In my opinion, the value to the country of the contributions of educated individuals is greater than the dollars received through the taxes on those waivers and therefore I would be against changing the current status of those waivers.
That being said, schools could just provide scholarships instead of waivers and then those amounts would be tax-free as long as used to pay for tuition. Of course, in that case, the school would lose the leverage of requiring work for those funds.
It does feel like they'd replace stipends with "scholarships" that lower the sticker price and taxable income but the challenge is how do you get people to be TAs or GAs if they don't have to do so. Maybe they could provide some college credits for doing so and make it a condition of graduation I guess?
Someone would work hard to get around this, that is for sure.
Someone would work hard to get around this, that is for sure.
As a PhD student, i can say with certainty absolutely no one would be a TA if they didn’t absolutely have to.
And it begs the question, why create all this work for what has to be a relatively small amount of money which you’ll never see. Like you say, universities will get around this. The obvious answer is they want to stick it to higher education.
I do understand the logic of it - wage income is wage income, but it is also a sign that higher ed is not a priority, yeah.
That's the obvious answer for you because it directly affects you. In the previous debates about insurance you were saying that everyone needs to give up for the greater good, even if it cost them more money that they didn't need to spend and you said you were more than willing to pay higher taxes, etc. in order to achieve other goals.
Here's your chance to do so. Everyone thanks you for your contribution.
That's the obvious answer for you because it directly affects you. In the previous debates about insurance you were saying that everyone needs to give up for the greater good, even if it cost them more money that they didn't need to spend and you said you were more than willing to pay higher taxes, etc. in order to achieve other goals.
Here's your chance to do so. Everyone thanks you for your contribution.
You beat me to it.
Like you said, universities will get around this. It has nothing to do with me. It doesn’t even affect me because my school is not paid for by waivers. And are you really comparing broadly shared insurance with the pennies you will never raise from graduate students?That's the obvious answer for you because it directly affects you. In the previous debates about insurance you were saying that everyone needs to give up for the greater good, even if it cost them more money that they didn't need to spend and you said you were more than willing to pay higher taxes, etc. in order to achieve other goals.
Here's your chance to do so. Everyone thanks you for your contribution.
How is the greater good served by damaging America's higher ed system to fund tax cuts for zillionaires?That's the obvious answer for you because it directly affects you. In the previous debates about insurance you were saying that everyone needs to give up for the greater good, even if it cost them more money that they didn't need to spend and you said you were more than willing to pay higher taxes, etc. in order to achieve other goals.
Here's your chance to do so. Everyone thanks you for your contribution.
Come on, you saw and responded to how I really feel about this previously. Note the smiley face in the last one. You can jump down off your high horse now.
Same for you Cowherd.
