Cool Website Calculates Tax Benefits

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Cool Website Calculates Tax Benefits
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Wed, 09-17-2008 - 2:55pm

Here is a cool website where you can enter your family filing status and AGI and see whether/how your family will benefit tax-wise from the candidates' proposed tax plans:


 


http://home.comcast.net/~adiabat/VoterEducationTools/Obama_vs_McCain_on_Taxes.htm


I will do better under Obama.

Sopal


Sopal

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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-25-2006
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 10:05am

And you are happy about getting only "a little something back" ?


Yes,


iVillage Member
Registered: 01-05-2008
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 10:05am
<<Currently, the lower 80% (people making less than $65,000), pay less than 50% of the taxes, and receive roughly 80% of benefits.

 

 

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Registered: 08-25-2008
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 10:10am

Actually, if you look at the data, if you're in the bottom 80% of taxpayers, you're getting back more in government services than you are paying in taxes.


Currently, the lower 80% (people making less than $65,000), pay less than 50% of the taxes, and receive roughly 80% of benefits.

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-25-2006
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 10:11am

<>How, the bulk of Buffett's income is derived from capital gains versus ordinary income ?


iVillage Member
Registered: 01-18-2006
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 10:20am

<<I don't work, I should be collecting disability, but I'm not, maybe I should try to get it.>>


If you are entitled to disability why wouldn't you be collecting it?


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No I don't.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-05-2008
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 10:22am

 

 

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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-18-2006
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 10:26am

<<Here we go AGAIN. Will you please stop equating Money with success?

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-03-2008
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 10:28am
The mortgage companies were STUPID to lend people money they had of KNOWN they would get to a point they couldn't of afforded them, STOP trying to put all the blame on the little guy. I'm getting rather tired of it. How about they KNEW the government would BAIL them out if they got into trouble!
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 10:28am

Sopal

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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-18-2006
Thu, 09-18-2008 - 10:30am

<<So, where does the extra revenue to run the country come from? This is what I don't think you understand. If the wealthy pay LESS then someone else will have to pay MORE.>>


No not so.

 

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