Tax deal
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While the middle class is a little smaller than 40 years ago. More people moved to the upper class than to poverty. But I'm not surprised you don't know that.PurpleThrobber said:
There is no middle class anymore.2001400ex said:
Ok cool. You get a $40 tax cut. I will be about a wash (I have $20k in deductions, but lose the $12k in personal exemptions, taxable income will be higher but at a lower rate). But the dude making $600k a year gets $5,000. And apple gets billions.BleachedAnusDawg said:
I have done the math on this tax cut via about 12 different online sources and all show me benefiting. I am middle class.2001400ex said:
Please to be explaining how this tax cut will benefit the middle class.Sledog said:Hondo likes taxes, the more the better. It's odd he doesn't fill in the donation line on the tax form though.
Explain how the wealthy and corporations getting tax cuts will benefit the middle class. That's the point I'm getting at. -
Thanks ObamaPurpleThrobber said:
There is no middle class anymore.2001400ex said:
Ok cool. You get a $40 tax cut. I will be about a wash (I have $20k in deductions, but lose the $12k in personal exemptions, taxable income will be higher but at a lower rate). But the dude making $600k a year gets $5,000. And apple gets billions.BleachedAnusDawg said:
I have done the math on this tax cut via about 12 different online sources and all show me benefiting. I am middle class.2001400ex said:
Please to be explaining how this tax cut will benefit the middle class.Sledog said:Hondo likes taxes, the more the better. It's odd he doesn't fill in the donation line on the tax form though.
Explain how the wealthy and corporations getting tax cuts will benefit the middle class. That's the point I'm getting at. -
I care about two things when it comes to tax policy: (1) my marginal tax rate goes down, not up; and (2) I want to be able to transfer my vast empire to my creepy progeny TAX FREE - cuz dyin' ain't much of a livin' boy.RaceBannon said:
Thanks ObamaPurpleThrobber said:
There is no middle class anymore.2001400ex said:
Ok cool. You get a $40 tax cut. I will be about a wash (I have $20k in deductions, but lose the $12k in personal exemptions, taxable income will be higher but at a lower rate). But the dude making $600k a year gets $5,000. And apple gets billions.BleachedAnusDawg said:
I have done the math on this tax cut via about 12 different online sources and all show me benefiting. I am middle class.2001400ex said:
Please to be explaining how this tax cut will benefit the middle class.Sledog said:Hondo likes taxes, the more the better. It's odd he doesn't fill in the donation line on the tax form though.
Explain how the wealthy and corporations getting tax cuts will benefit the middle class. That's the point I'm getting at.
I basically don't care about anything else.
Someone can read the bill and tell me if I should be happy or sad. -
I would be more concerned about the effective rate, not the marginal rate. And unless you have more than $5 million in net worth, I wouldn't worry about the death tax.creepycoug said:
I care about two things when it comes to tax policy: (1) my marginal tax rate goes down, not up; and (2) I want to be able to transfer my vast empire to my creepy progeny TAX FREE - cuz dyin' ain't much of a livin' boy.RaceBannon said:
Thanks ObamaPurpleThrobber said:
There is no middle class anymore.2001400ex said:
Ok cool. You get a $40 tax cut. I will be about a wash (I have $20k in deductions, but lose the $12k in personal exemptions, taxable income will be higher but at a lower rate). But the dude making $600k a year gets $5,000. And apple gets billions.BleachedAnusDawg said:
I have done the math on this tax cut via about 12 different online sources and all show me benefiting. I am middle class.2001400ex said:
Please to be explaining how this tax cut will benefit the middle class.Sledog said:Hondo likes taxes, the more the better. It's odd he doesn't fill in the donation line on the tax form though.
Explain how the wealthy and corporations getting tax cuts will benefit the middle class. That's the point I'm getting at.
I basically don't care about anything else.
Someone can read the bill and tell me if I should be happy or sad. -
Yeah, that one too. But the marginal rate matters when you have a lot of control on timing your income, which I can pretty much do since it's all pretend anyway.2001400ex said:
I would be more concerned about the effective rate, not the marginal rate. And unless you have more than $5 million in net worth, I wouldn't worry about the death tax.creepycoug said:
I care about two things when it comes to tax policy: (1) my marginal tax rate goes down, not up; and (2) I want to be able to transfer my vast empire to my creepy progeny TAX FREE - cuz dyin' ain't much of a livin' boy.RaceBannon said:
Thanks ObamaPurpleThrobber said:
There is no middle class anymore.2001400ex said:
Ok cool. You get a $40 tax cut. I will be about a wash (I have $20k in deductions, but lose the $12k in personal exemptions, taxable income will be higher but at a lower rate). But the dude making $600k a year gets $5,000. And apple gets billions.BleachedAnusDawg said:
I have done the math on this tax cut via about 12 different online sources and all show me benefiting. I am middle class.2001400ex said:
Please to be explaining how this tax cut will benefit the middle class.Sledog said:Hondo likes taxes, the more the better. It's odd he doesn't fill in the donation line on the tax form though.
Explain how the wealthy and corporations getting tax cuts will benefit the middle class. That's the point I'm getting at.
I basically don't care about anything else.
Someone can read the bill and tell me if I should be happy or sad.
Re the $5 million threshhold, as I've told you Kaye: don't ever ask me about my business. -
Let me check with my accountant

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Generally you want to push income into the next year regardless, just a time value of money thing. And if the law passes, generally the marginal rate will be lower, but I haven't seen the new table yet.creepycoug said:
Yeah, that one too. But the marginal rate matters when you have a lot of control on timing your income, which I can pretty much do since it's all pretend anyway.2001400ex said:
I would be more concerned about the effective rate, not the marginal rate. And unless you have more than $5 million in net worth, I wouldn't worry about the death tax.creepycoug said:
I care about two things when it comes to tax policy: (1) my marginal tax rate goes down, not up; and (2) I want to be able to transfer my vast empire to my creepy progeny TAX FREE - cuz dyin' ain't much of a livin' boy.RaceBannon said:
Thanks ObamaPurpleThrobber said:
There is no middle class anymore.2001400ex said:
Ok cool. You get a $40 tax cut. I will be about a wash (I have $20k in deductions, but lose the $12k in personal exemptions, taxable income will be higher but at a lower rate). But the dude making $600k a year gets $5,000. And apple gets billions.BleachedAnusDawg said:
I have done the math on this tax cut via about 12 different online sources and all show me benefiting. I am middle class.2001400ex said:
Please to be explaining how this tax cut will benefit the middle class.Sledog said:Hondo likes taxes, the more the better. It's odd he doesn't fill in the donation line on the tax form though.
Explain how the wealthy and corporations getting tax cuts will benefit the middle class. That's the point I'm getting at.
I basically don't care about anything else.
Someone can read the bill and tell me if I should be happy or sad.
Re the $5 million threshhold, as I've told you Kaye: don't ever ask me about my business.
I don't think I asked about your net worth. I think the estate tax should stay, but only on capital gains and generally exempt farms from that. On the basis that capital gains aren't taxed until you cash them out, which doesn't happen when you die. So that transfer of capital gains would be taxed over a threshold. Last I saw the exemption was $10,000,000 now. -
tax advice from hondo podcast?
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You are taking a post made entirely in jest and interpreting it as a request for tax advice. Thanks, but I'm good.2001400ex said:
Generally you want to push income into the next year regardless, just a time value of money thing. And if the law passes, generally the marginal rate will be lower, but I haven't seen the new table yet.creepycoug said:
Yeah, that one too. But the marginal rate matters when you have a lot of control on timing your income, which I can pretty much do since it's all pretend anyway.2001400ex said:
I would be more concerned about the effective rate, not the marginal rate. And unless you have more than $5 million in net worth, I wouldn't worry about the death tax.creepycoug said:
I care about two things when it comes to tax policy: (1) my marginal tax rate goes down, not up; and (2) I want to be able to transfer my vast empire to my creepy progeny TAX FREE - cuz dyin' ain't much of a livin' boy.RaceBannon said:
Thanks ObamaPurpleThrobber said:
There is no middle class anymore.2001400ex said:
Ok cool. You get a $40 tax cut. I will be about a wash (I have $20k in deductions, but lose the $12k in personal exemptions, taxable income will be higher but at a lower rate). But the dude making $600k a year gets $5,000. And apple gets billions.BleachedAnusDawg said:
I have done the math on this tax cut via about 12 different online sources and all show me benefiting. I am middle class.2001400ex said:
Please to be explaining how this tax cut will benefit the middle class.Sledog said:Hondo likes taxes, the more the better. It's odd he doesn't fill in the donation line on the tax form though.
Explain how the wealthy and corporations getting tax cuts will benefit the middle class. That's the point I'm getting at.
I basically don't care about anything else.
Someone can read the bill and tell me if I should be happy or sad.
Re the $5 million threshhold, as I've told you Kaye: don't ever ask me about my business.
I don't think I asked about your net worth. I think the estate tax should stay, but only on capital gains and generally exempt farms from that. On the basis that capital gains aren't taxed until you cash them out, which doesn't happen when you die. So that transfer of capital gains would be taxed over a threshold. Last I saw the exemption was $10,000,000 now.
Re pushing off income, agreed, but even that depends. TVM is an important factor. There are others, like how much income you'll realize in the next year that you can't move around and tax rates.
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If you really do want some advice, PM me. I got a tax guycreepycoug said:
You are taking a post made entirely in jest and interpreting it as a request for tax advice. Thanks, but I'm good.2001400ex said:
Generally you want to push income into the next year regardless, just a time value of money thing. And if the law passes, generally the marginal rate will be lower, but I haven't seen the new table yet.creepycoug said:
Yeah, that one too. But the marginal rate matters when you have a lot of control on timing your income, which I can pretty much do since it's all pretend anyway.2001400ex said:
I would be more concerned about the effective rate, not the marginal rate. And unless you have more than $5 million in net worth, I wouldn't worry about the death tax.creepycoug said:
I care about two things when it comes to tax policy: (1) my marginal tax rate goes down, not up; and (2) I want to be able to transfer my vast empire to my creepy progeny TAX FREE - cuz dyin' ain't much of a livin' boy.RaceBannon said:
Thanks ObamaPurpleThrobber said:
There is no middle class anymore.2001400ex said:
Ok cool. You get a $40 tax cut. I will be about a wash (I have $20k in deductions, but lose the $12k in personal exemptions, taxable income will be higher but at a lower rate). But the dude making $600k a year gets $5,000. And apple gets billions.BleachedAnusDawg said:
I have done the math on this tax cut via about 12 different online sources and all show me benefiting. I am middle class.2001400ex said:
Please to be explaining how this tax cut will benefit the middle class.Sledog said:Hondo likes taxes, the more the better. It's odd he doesn't fill in the donation line on the tax form though.
Explain how the wealthy and corporations getting tax cuts will benefit the middle class. That's the point I'm getting at.
I basically don't care about anything else.
Someone can read the bill and tell me if I should be happy or sad.
Re the $5 million threshhold, as I've told you Kaye: don't ever ask me about my business.
I don't think I asked about your net worth. I think the estate tax should stay, but only on capital gains and generally exempt farms from that. On the basis that capital gains aren't taxed until you cash them out, which doesn't happen when you die. So that transfer of capital gains would be taxed over a threshold. Last I saw the exemption was $10,000,000 now.
Re pushing off income, agreed, but even that depends. TVM is an important factor. There are others, like how much income you'll realize in the next year that you can't move around and tax rates.


