Tractors and (upcoming) tariffs?

[jyoutz]

I’d rather the fees be collected as sales taxes than direct confiscation of my income by the gubmit.

At least with sales tax, I can see the sales tax added directly to my purchase.

With income tax, it’s a “best guess” as to what I own on my income by an accountant.

This could be off by an amount that opens me up to a young, stupid, armed IRS agent camping out at my house for days farting in my office and using my bathroom, looking for something to burn me on.

Yeah, gimmie the tariffs and the sales taxes over your unconstitutional income tax anyday.

Congress is given the constitutional authority to enact laws. Rather or not we like income taxes (and nobody does), there’s nothing unconstitutional about it. And really who has IRS people camping at their house? Do you?

 

[Hay Dude]

Congress is given the constitutional authority to enact laws. Rather or not we like income taxes (and nobody does), there’s nothing unconstitutional about it. And really who has IRS people camping at their house? Do you?

No, and thanks for yet another personal insult. But my dad did once.
All they ended up getting him on after an 8 hour audit was my dad writing off work shoes, which he thought was a perfectly acceptable uniform or safety equipment expense.
I remember them being their all day looking for something to get him on. Our accountant was there all day, too which wasn’t free of charge. I had to help him find records all day.
Damn A-hole wouldn’t leave till he found something. Our accountant just advised my dad to let them find something small to get them and their terrible smelling after shave out the door.

 

[jyoutz]

I've seen local officials run into problems even with the best of intentions...

Councilman prioritized roads and sidewalks and was incensed with the money bring spent on bike lanes in his city which he saw as a low priority if even that.

He learned quickly the bike lanes we're mostly funded as a regional and even some federal money for renewable and green transportation infrastructure projects.

So even while the roads could greatly benefit and a priority it was the reality the money was earmarked for something else.

Contracting with the government and public works projects are very different than private sector... and those from the private sector often don't have a clue...

A very successful electrical contractor told me that if he had to build government projects as bid the company would be bankrupt.

He understood he needed to be awarded the contract first and then the flood of change orders us where his profit came from.

Years ago in a class I was taking the professor mentioned the trump organization citing a basic premise of the development part is to avoid change orders at all cost... it cost more than a few contractors big time...

Construction contracting is a different animal than most contracting. It’s weird how they have negotiated rates reviewed by engineers and there are a lot of opportunities for waste, fraud and confusion in that whole process.

 

[jyoutz]

No, and thanks for yet another personal insult. But my dad did once.
All they ended up getting him on after an 8 hour audit was my dad writing off work shoes, which he thought was a perfectly acceptable uniform or safety equipment expense.
I remember them being their all day looking for something to get him on. Our accountant was there all day, too which wasn’t free of charge. I had to help him find records all day.
Damn A-hole wouldn’t leave till he found something. Our accountant just advised my dad to let them find something small to get them and their terrible smelling after shave out the door.

Personal insult??? You’re the one who brought up that topic.

 

[Hay Dude]

Personal insult??? You’re the one who brought up that topic.

Ummm, you asking me if the IRS is camping out at my house implies I am a tax cheat, which you have implied over and over again for several years now.

 

[kenhar]

Tariffs sound good but so do politicians when campaigning. Before ****** became into complete control of Germany, his speeches sounded like Thomas Jefferson or John Kennedy. The rich will get richer and the poor will lose more buying power. History somewhat repeats itself. Taxes, a flat rate of 5% on ALL income less expenses is said to more than double the taxes currently collected. My hope is that everyone happy with our elected officials today is just as happy two years from now.

 

[Hay Dude]

National sales tax to replace income tax.
Put all the tax oversight gun-toting IRS on the companies we buy from and get the gubmit out of our personal lives.

 

[jyoutz]

Ummm, you asking me if the IRS is camping out at my house implies I am a tax cheat, which you have implied over and over again for several years now.

Once again you brought up the odd scenario. Who would talk about that unless they experienced it?

 

[Hay Dude]

Once again you brought up the odd scenario.

If you think tax audits are an “odd scenario”, then you are really scary-naive.
Americans spent 1/2 trillion defending against IRS audits.

Do you really see the need for such waste of money, when there could be tariffs or a national income tax?

Then we don’t need 85,000 rookie IRS agents running around packing heat?

 

[jyoutz]

Tariffs sound good but so do politicians when campaigning. Before ****** became into complete control of Germany, his speeches sounded like Thomas Jefferson or John Kennedy. The rich will get richer and the poor will lose more buying power. History somewhat repeats itself. Taxes, a flat rate of 5% on ALL income less expenses is said to more than double the taxes currently collected. My hope is that everyone happy with our elected officials today is just as happy two years from now.

A flat tax would be a better idea, or maybe national sales taxes. But congress won’t consider these because there is a huge lobbyist community of interested parties that benefit from the current system: CPAs, tax preparers, non profits, churches, etc…