Originally Posted by Robbie

That's an easy one.
In Sept. of 2008 I moved from S.C. to Las Vegas. I bought a 3/4 million dollar home. I put down $225,000 on it to move in. I paid a little over 20 grand to have two moving trucks bring all my furniture and cars across country. I flew my wife, 2 kids, 3 dogs, and a cat here.

The week we arrived, the economy crashed.

I netted $600,000 in 2008.

In 2009 I netted $275,000

I just now had to cash out my SEP plan to pay off my last quarter of 2008 taxes.
I haven't been able to pay ANY of my 2009 taxes and I still haven't gotten my first quarter of 2010 yet either.

Now does that make sense why so many people are screwed? You have one income, and you see it cut in half. The fact that I was saving my money to make the big move screwed me up because I never in my wildest dreams thought the economy would crash this hard.

But if you guys don't see that happening here...then I would suggest you go to any American city and turn on the televison and you will see commercial after commercial for companies that offer their services to help people to get out of tax debt by cutting deals with the govt. to pay pennies on the dollar.

I'm not doing that by the way. I WILL work through this. It's gonna take a little while. But I'm doing better than anybody else I know. Even with having my income cut in half. So I'm not crying about it. I'm just saying that having the govt. just TAKE the money that people earn is bullshit.

I'm glad you guys enjoy paying taxes. I don't. lol

Originally Posted by POed-poster

Agreed. It totally pisses me off when they claim to speak for me.

These people have been slandering this president mercilessly, calling him everything from a Nazi to a Muslim to a Communist. But he has accomplished more in one year than most of his predecessors did in their entire administrations. Clinton failed to deliver on health Care Reform and remember Bush and Social Security. Neither of those presidents had near the opposition that Obama had.