Anonymous wrote:Dear OP. DCUM is not only majority liberal but many of us has already voted.
Don't you have anything better to do?

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Anonymous wrote:Marginal. The tax rate will go up 4.5% (from 35% to 39.5%) for income over $250K. That means if you make $300K, your tax rate would go up $2250 per year (4.5% of $50K). If you make $500K, then your rate would go up $13,500. You're telling me that you think that someone making $500K would go broke paying $13,500 more in one year? Or that someone making $300K would be hard hit to pay $2250 more? Our HHI is $200K and we could afford $2250 more per year. And we pay $33K for daycare for our twins. I can't believe that people really argue this. the people hardest hit would be those making over $1M. They have close to the lowest income tax rate since the Great Depression and they're whining about a 4.5% marginal increase.

This. We make $280k. I can't go around buying Louis Vuittons willy nilly, but we really don't need to watch our expenses that much, and we do save for retirement and college, have 1 kid in daycare, and are saving for a new home. I'm ok with paying a little more. What would be the net impact on my life if I had to pay a couple thousand extra over the course of the year? Not sure I would notice. Probably wouldn't buy a couple things that I didn't need in the first place. We definitely wouldn't stop saving as much as we do. $2000 to someone making $50k feels like SO much money.

Would you or PP mind sharing with us why you won't send more than minimally required to send? I notice you said if you " had" to pay a couple of thousand extra. You could "have" been paying a couple o' thow more every single year. Why not?

What is the point of one individual voluntarily paying more? It would never affect anything in any meaningful way. Even if it were Warren Buffet. or 100 Warren Buffets. Changing actual tax policy is what matters.

Hate to tell you, but it's not a revenue issue, it's a spending issue. Bush tax rates brought in historic levels of revenue.

Anonymous wrote:Hate to tell you, but it's not a revenue issue, it's a spending issue. Bush tax rates brought in historic levels of revenue.

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Anonymous wrote:Marginal. The tax rate will go up 4.5% (from 35% to 39.5%) for income over $250K. That means if you make $300K, your tax rate would go up $2250 per year (4.5% of $50K). If you make $500K, then your rate would go up $13,500. You're telling me that you think that someone making $500K would go broke paying $13,500 more in one year? Or that someone making $300K would be hard hit to pay $2250 more? Our HHI is $200K and we could afford $2250 more per year. And we pay $33K for daycare for our twins. I can't believe that people really argue this. the people hardest hit would be those making over $1M. They have close to the lowest income tax rate since the Great Depression and they're whining about a 4.5% marginal increase.

This. We make $280k. I can't go around buying Louis Vuittons willy nilly, but we really don't need to watch our expenses that much, and we do save for retirement and college, have 1 kid in daycare, and are saving for a new home. I'm ok with paying a little more. What would be the net impact on my life if I had to pay a couple thousand extra over the course of the year? Not sure I would notice. Probably wouldn't buy a couple things that I didn't need in the first place. We definitely wouldn't stop saving as much as we do. $2000 to someone making $50k feels like SO much money.

Would you or PP mind sharing with us why you won't send more than minimally required to send? I notice you said if you " had" to pay a couple of thousand extra. You could "have" been paying a couple o' thow more every single year. Why not?

What is the point of one individual voluntarily paying more? It would never affect anything in any meaningful way. Even if it were Warren Buffet. or 100 Warren Buffets. Changing actual tax policy is what matters.

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Anonymous wrote:Marginal. The tax rate will go up 4.5% (from 35% to 39.5%) for income over $250K. That means if you make $300K, your tax rate would go up $2250 per year (4.5% of $50K). If you make $500K, then your rate would go up $13,500. You're telling me that you think that someone making $500K would go broke paying $13,500 more in one year? Or that someone making $300K would be hard hit to pay $2250 more? Our HHI is $200K and we could afford $2250 more per year. And we pay $33K for daycare for our twins. I can't believe that people really argue this. the people hardest hit would be those making over $1M. They have close to the lowest income tax rate since the Great Depression and they're whining about a 4.5% marginal increase.

This. We make $280k. I can't go around buying Louis Vuittons willy nilly, but we really don't need to watch our expenses that much, and we do save for retirement and college, have 1 kid in daycare, and are saving for a new home. I'm ok with paying a little more. What would be the net impact on my life if I had to pay a couple thousand extra over the course of the year? Not sure I would notice. Probably wouldn't buy a couple things that I didn't need in the first place. We definitely wouldn't stop saving as much as we do. $2000 to someone making $50k feels like SO much money.

Would you or PP mind sharing with us why you won't send more than minimally required to send? I notice you said if you " had" to pay a couple of thousand extra. You could "have" been paying a couple o' thow more every single year. Why not?

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Anonymous wrote:8:13 here. Regardless, though, if you're making $250,000, you can afford a few extra dollars (and it's marginal, so it really doesn't work out to be a lot). I'm saying that as someone just over the threshold who would be impacted, not as a millionaire. If you haven't overreached in your expenses, even in DC, there's really no reason you shouldn't be able to afford what you need and save on $250,000.

When a decent house in an acceptable school and refundable commute costs over a million , 250k ain't shit.

I'm the $200k poster and I'm very happy with my standard of living. Maybe we don't live as well as you do though.

Maybe you should pay more and pp can pay less. Nothing is stopping you from making an irs donation

http://www.fms.treas.gov/faq/moretopics_gifts.html

The point was its ridiculous to complain about only making $250,000. It buys a great lifestyle.

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Anonymous wrote:Marginal. The tax rate will go up 4.5% (from 35% to 39.5%) for income over $250K. That means if you make $300K, your tax rate would go up $2250 per year (4.5% of $50K). If you make $500K, then your rate would go up $13,500. You're telling me that you think that someone making $500K would go broke paying $13,500 more in one year? Or that someone making $300K would be hard hit to pay $2250 more? Our HHI is $200K and we could afford $2250 more per year. And we pay $33K for daycare for our twins. I can't believe that people really argue this. the people hardest hit would be those making over $1M. They have close to the lowest income tax rate since the Great Depression and they're whining about a 4.5% marginal increase.

This. We make $280k. I can't go around buying Louis Vuittons willy nilly, but we really don't need to watch our expenses that much, and we do save for retirement and college, have 1 kid in daycare, and are saving for a new home. I'm ok with paying a little more. What would be the net impact on my life if I had to pay a couple thousand extra over the course of the year? Not sure I would notice. Probably wouldn't buy a couple things that I didn't need in the first place. We definitely wouldn't stop saving as much as we do. $2000 to someone making $50k feels like SO much money.

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Anonymous wrote:8:13 here. Regardless, though, if you're making $250,000, you can afford a few extra dollars (and it's marginal, so it really doesn't work out to be a lot). I'm saying that as someone just over the threshold who would be impacted, not as a millionaire. If you haven't overreached in your expenses, even in DC, there's really no reason you shouldn't be able to afford what you need and save on $250,000.

When a decent house in an acceptable school and refundable commute costs over a million , 250k ain't shit.

I'm the $200k poster and I'm very happy with my standard of living. Maybe we don't live as well as you do though.

Maybe you should pay more and pp can pay less. Nothing is stopping you from making an irs donation

http://www.fms.treas.gov/faq/moretopics_gifts.html

Anonymous wrote:Marginal. The tax rate will go up 4.5% (from 35% to 39.5%) for income over $250K. That means if you make $300K, your tax rate would go up $2250 per year (4.5% of $50K). If you make $500K, then your rate would go up $13,500. You're telling me that you think that someone making $500K would go broke paying $13,500 more in one year? Or that someone making $300K would be hard hit to pay $2250 more? Our HHI is $200K and we could afford $2250 more per year. And we pay $33K for daycare for our twins. I can't believe that people really argue this. the people hardest hit would be those making over $1M. They have close to the lowest income tax rate since the Great Depression and they're whining about a 4.5% marginal increase.

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Anonymous wrote:8:13 here. Regardless, though, if you're making $250,000, you can afford a few extra dollars (and it's marginal, so it really doesn't work out to be a lot). I'm saying that as someone just over the threshold who would be impacted, not as a millionaire. If you haven't overreached in your expenses, even in DC, there's really no reason you shouldn't be able to afford what you need and save on $250,000.

When a decent house in an acceptable school and refundable commute costs over a million , 250k ain't shit.

I'm the $200k poster and I'm very happy with my standard of living. Maybe we don't live as well as you do though.