Social Security and Medicare Question

[shaudes]

I was just thinking, and I know that this is a bad thing for it causes me to question reality and ask dangerous questions.

Q#1
Why can you not claim Social security in your taxes payed during the year? IT IS A TAX THAT IS BASED ON YOUR INCOME. you have no option to not pay it. You benifit form it only if 1# you are to pore to pay the tax, 2# to old to work, 3# to sick to work. If you refuse to pay it teh Federal Goverment will put you in jail for tax eveation. WHY CAN YOU NOT CLAIM IT FOR TAX DEDUCTIONS?

Q#2
see above but apply to medicare tax.


Acording to the IRS i am only in the 15% tax bracet lets say, but after adding SS and medicare taxes im paying closer to 25%. So Working 40 hrs a week at say $12/hr a nice paying job makes olmost 25K a year befor taxes. That leaves less than 19k a year to live on. Grumbelll...


or $360 a week.

Now minimul wage suposidly is a living wadge a wadge that would alow a person to have reliable transpertation a roof over tehar heads and food to eat. Yea right..........

Ok im throu FLaming for now. Feal free to coment.

[waldo125]

in America your innocent till proven guilty (bull shit ) the irs gave me a bill for 28,000 they said i owed for construction work in did on the side .unless i could prove otherwise i needed to pay sounds like i was guilty till i could prove my self innocent ,but like every thing in American give a bag of money to a lawyer and all in well again (4 more years moving out of where don’t know were just not here we are no longer the home of the free (well may if you have enough cash )THE IRS SUCKS
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[Fyrefly1]

Unfortunately, there's no place in the world that's any easier to live....

In my experience there's always some problems to deal with any where you go!

Joe
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[Fyrefly1]

Unfortunately, there's no place in the world that's any easier to live....

In my experience there's always some problems to deal with any where you go!

Joe
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Fyrefly1
"All truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third it is accepted as self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer, 19th Century Philosopher

[Mystic Power]

It's a racket, just like the mob.

Bliss as best you can,
Ben
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[Mystic Power]

It's a racket, just like the mob.

Bliss as best you can,
Ben
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"We are the Ones we have been waiting for."
~Hopi Elder ~

"In Lak'ech"
~ Ancient Mayan: "I am another YOU." ~

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