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Mike was hired six weeks ago. I referred him to Apple. So this paycheck i was looking forward to my happy $500 finders fee.
QED, right?
Well, it seems i forgot that every time i get paid Uncle Sam wants to get paid a long with me, and he's decided to stop asking and just take the money straight from my paycheck. Charming guy.
So, Mike, i guess that dinner i promised you will have to be about half as grand, since all i'm going to get is $284.85.
Last website visited:
Mood: isn't it ironic...
Right now i want...
Mike was hired six weeks ago. I referred him to Apple. So this paycheck i was looking forward to my happy $500 finders fee.
QED, right?
Well, it seems i forgot that every time i get paid Uncle Sam wants to get paid a long with me, and he's decided to stop asking and just take the money straight from my paycheck. Charming guy.
So, Mike, i guess that dinner i promised you will have to be about half as grand, since all i'm going to get is $284.85.
posted by Jane at 2:33:00 PM
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It seems a small price to pay to not have to stop at a toll booth every couple of miles.
The libraries and public radio and nature preserves are nice, too.
$284.85 is not going decrease the need for toll roads. Public Radio's federal funding is being pulled, and the rights of the citizenry to use libraries in a private manner are gone; hopefully temporarily, but that doesn't look likely with the President's current mindset.
Then again, what's so wrong with toll roads? They pay for their own maintenance, reduce speeding and/or increase the number of tickets written, and reduce unnecessary traffic. They free up much needed money and generate additional funds.
Granted you shouldn't make every freeway a toll road, but they are a great way to control the flow of traffic. Just imagine if you charged everyone $.10 to drive on 880 - $36.50 if you drive it every day of the year. times what? 1 million drivers a day? 3? talk about a great way to promote carpooling, forget about the fees that money would help defer.
Then again, if the Governor actually manages to repeal Prop 13 which almost single handedly plunged this state into near depression while artificially inflating the real estate market to unheard of levels and starving our schools of their required funding, this state wouldn't need my $284.85 so badly.
My annoyance wasn't with paying some taxes on my bonus - i can block out reality well, but not that well - i just didn't expect half to go to the government.
In general, my problem isn't with taxes: it's with how messed up the current tax and budget policies are. There is plenty of money for the state and the feds to make if they weren't so content to take half a single woman's paycheck.