Tête-à-Tête-Tête » Taxes http://tete-tete-tete.com Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:25:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Tea in Coolidge Park http://tete-tete-tete.com/2010/04/tea-in-coolidge-park/ http://tete-tete-tete.com/2010/04/tea-in-coolidge-park/#comments Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:11:27 +0000 smijer http://tete-tete-tete.com/?p=2970 Chattarati has a small photo gallery. I like the No VAT sign. And I’m glad the Dirty F-in’ Hippies in the very first photo made their way out, too. As a result, we had both flavors of populist outrage on display in our little city.

Read full post, see embedded content, and comment [...]]]> Chattarati has a small photo gallery. I like the No VAT sign. And I’m glad the Dirty F-in’ Hippies in the very first photo made their way out, too. As a result, we had both flavors of populist outrage on display in our little city.

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]]> http://tete-tete-tete.com/2010/04/tea-in-coolidge-park/feed/ 1 My Tax Protest http://tete-tete-tete.com/2009/04/my-tax-protest/ http://tete-tete-tete.com/2009/04/my-tax-protest/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:30:56 +0000 smijer http://tete-tete-tete.com/?p=1740 So far, my federal taxes are slightly down again this year – reflected in a small decrease in federal withholding on my pay stubs starting a few weeks ago. And, I’m not incensed that Roger’s taxes are going up by 3%, and neither is he. So, I guess I won’t be going to the [...]]]> So far, my federal taxes are slightly down again this year – reflected in a small decrease in federal withholding on my pay stubs starting a few weeks ago. And, I’m not incensed that Roger’s taxes are going up by 3%, and neither is he. So, I guess I won’t be going to the Tea Parties.

Any tax protest I attend will have to be focused on the larcenous sales tax in Tennessee, especially as it applies to food items at the grocery store.

Maybe we can rally around unfairly taxed Bags of Cashews. Would you come to a Nut Sack Party?

Related: Tennesseans for Fair Taxation .

Also: Dan Lehr graciously welcomes the new anti-establishmentarians to the fold and has some tips on how to make resistance to unwanted changes in the federal system more effective.

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]]> http://tete-tete-tete.com/2009/04/my-tax-protest/feed/ 5 Wrong Way http://tete-tete-tete.com/2009/02/wrong-way/ http://tete-tete-tete.com/2009/02/wrong-way/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:00:40 +0000 smijer http://tete-tete-tete.com/?p=1097 I guess it’s reasons like this that budgets are hard to balance, but I think this is step in the wrong direction.

If this is really the problem:

Right now, if a middle class family donates a dollar to their favorite charity, they get a 15-cent deduction, but Warren Buffet and Bill Gates make the same donation and [...]]]> I guess it’s reasons like this that budgets are hard to balance, but I think this is step in the wrong direction.

If this is really the problem:

Right now, if a middle class family donates a dollar to their favorite charity, they get a 15-cent deduction, but Warren Buffet and Bill Gates make the same donation and they get a deduction that is more than twice that.

… then there’s no reason not to up the deduction on middle class families… but of course that means even less tax revenue with which to balance the budget.

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