12-17-2018

[Jason]

Mornin. Thought this was funny.

[Tiggnutz]

Get me to the 4 day weekend!

[Jason]

I get one day weekends. Lol

[Tiggnutz]

I get one day weekends. Lol

Those suck but are way better than no day weekends.

[Jason]

Found out if I exceed 60 hours in one work week that my tax rate will dramatically increase.

From now on if I hit 50 hours before the end of the week, I'm taking the rest of the week off. Total nonsense.

Also, I stopped at a gas station a few hours ago and paid 4 dollars and 48 cents for a can of Coke and small bag of chips.

Fuck California.

[showa58taro]

Sat next to Andrew Lincoln at a Pizza Express today. So that was cool

WTF! He left us so that he could park his ass next to you in some shitty pizza place. *shakes head in disgust*

The fangirl in me wants to know.... was he clean shaven? Was he just as handsome? Did he eat pizza with a fork. I can forgive him leaving us but not for using a fork. That is a deal breaker.

Clean shaven, cut the pizza with fork and knife. But it is thin Italian pizza. Was never fingerfood. Had family with him. Seemed nice. Yup

[showa58taro]

Found out if I exceed 60 hours in one work week that my tax rate will dramatically increase.

From now on if I hit 50 hours before the end of the week, I'm taking the rest of the week off. Total nonsense.

Also, I stopped at a gas station a few hours ago and paid 4 dollars and 48 cents for a can of Coke and small bag of chips.

Fuck California.

That’s really dumb. You still get the benefit up to the tax band, that’s how progressive taxes work.

[Jason]

Progress and taxes hardly mix, sir.

[showa58taro]

Progress and taxes hardly mix, sir.

And yet you have a progressive tax code same as the rest of us. Use it to your advantage.

[Jason]

Progress and taxes hardly mix, sir.

And yet you have a progressive tax code same as the rest of us. Use it to your advantage.

People are robbing me of money. I am not in an advantageous position.

[DancesWithWerewolves]

Silly Seb, thinking our taxes actually go to stuff we can use

[showa58taro]

Silly Seb, thinking our taxes actually go to stuff we can use

I mean, it does, but even then that was not my point. All earnings even after a threshold increase can be better than sitting at home, and usually higher threshold earners have higher incentives to earn and use tax breaks to increase their banding, which I sssume Jason qualifies for with a bit of research.

[Jason]

All earnings even after a threshold increase can be better than sitting at home.

Oy...

"How dare you save money! *ultra power tax combo* POW!

[Jigsaw]

Saw Summer of 84 earlier. Maybe I'm easy to please, but I utterly loved it. Great 80's vibe, enjoyable overall.

[Jigsaw]

Seen eight new movies from 2018 so far since the 10th, and have seven more to go. Have most of them lined up, assuming I can find links to a couple of them. Overall a fun time.

[Reign in Blood]

Saw Summer of 84 earlier. Maybe I'm easy to please, but I utterly loved it. Great 80's vibe, enjoyable overall.

Sure you're not talkin' the Summer of '69, Jig?

[showa58taro]

All earnings even after a threshold increase can be better than sitting at home.

Oy...

"How dare you save money! *ultra power tax combo* POW!

Not a clue what you mean.

[Jason]

Better to tax people than let them save the money, you say.

On a side note, given all the liberal rioting, the fact that a tax on conversations was even considered in California should cause an actual useful riot of the government.

Do you guys realize how close we are to the government making us PAY THEM so we can have PRIVATE conversations???

[Reign in Blood]

Better to tax people than let them save the money, you say.

On a side note, given all the liberal rioting, the fact that a tax on conversations was even considered in California should cause an actual useful riot of the government.

Do you guys realize how close we are to the government making us PAY THEM so we can have PRIVATE conversations???

Liberals... can't live with them, can't kill em. Non-sense.

[Dream]

Found out if I exceed 60 hours in one work week that my tax rate will dramatically increase.

From now on if I hit 50 hours before the end of the week, I'm taking the rest of the week off. Total nonsense.

Also, I stopped at a gas station a few hours ago and paid 4 dollars and 48 cents for a can of Coke and small bag of chips.

Fuck California.

That's not how taxes work.

If you go up the tax bracket, the old bracket it still in effect for your taxes up to the limit of your bracket. If your income goes over the upper limit of that bracket, the amount over is taxed in the new bracket.
The first $9k you make isn't taxed.
the next 29k is taxed at 12%
the next 31k after that is taxed at 22%
the next 90k is taxed at 24% and so on.

If you hit that 22% bracket, only the income over the 12% bracket limit is taxed at the higher rate, and that's only if that's your income after deductions, otherwise any additional tax bracket you end up in when calculating taxes to take out of your check should come back to you come tax return time, unless the person who does your taxes is completely inept.

Also, the price of your chips and soda probably has more to do with you buying them in a gas station (notoriously higher markups) than it has anything to do with CA taxes or whatever. You probably could have gotten the same stuff for about a buck or two less at a grocery store.