This map shows clearly why Proposition 1 failed. People living across the lake… Bellevue, Medina, Redmond and Issaquah … choose to live there because they love cars. They do not want to pay for all those buses running around urban Seattle. These people are commuters. The commuter attit[...]
Posts Tagged ‘taxes’
April 21st, 2014 - 9:09 am § in America
SOUTH CAROLINA: Why Would Anyone Choose to LIve There>
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April 15th, 2014 - 11:24 am § in Misc.
A $15/hr wages makes all Americans rich!
from Jim Miller at Sound Politics If you are single, then by world standards, probably in the top 5 percent, almost certainly in the top 10 percent. Here’s how I come to that tentative conclusion: A $15 an hour wage gives you a yearly gross income of $30,000, assuming you work 40 h[...]
April 15, How Not to Pay Tax … Join Snowden and give up your passport!
Expatriates giving up their nationality at U.S. embassies climbed to 1,131 in the three months through June of last year from 189 in the year-earlier period, according to Federal Register figures published today. That brought the first-half total to 1,810 compared with 235 for the whole of 2008. Why[...]
April 14th, 2014 - 8:42 am § in Misc.
Tax Day: Freedom to Cheat, Send $$ to THE Ave!
Chances of getting audited by IRS lowest in years This year, the IRS will have fewer agents auditing returns than at any time since at least the 1980s. That plus the GOP’s war on IRS surveillance of political abuse of tax deductible organizations, seems to suggest this is a great time to mak[...]
April 7th, 2014 - 1:12 pm § in Misc., The Ave Scene
What is wrong with King County Prop1?
Prop 1 is a last resort effort to pay for public transit in King County. It is a last resort because all other rational alternatives have been closed by the Replican dominated state legislature. I will vote for this but am pissed off at having to do so. The Prop would add .1% to the […][...]
April 5th, 2014 - 6:47 pm § in The Ave Scene
How Come we do not tax podment developers for transit?
A recent exchange of posts at the UW AAUP listserv illustrates the political castration of the University. To be honest, I intend to vote for prop one with a large clothespin applied to my nose. One participant, excited by something he read in the Seattle Times, posted his enthusiasm for proposition[...]
March 26th, 2014 - 9:28 am § in America
Is Scrooge Driving Companies Out of Seattle?
The Seattle Times is kvetching* that our area may lose the corporate headquarters of T-mobile. The extremely creative T-Mobile, after its failed take over by AT&T came back fighting with new consumer friendly plans. These have meant that the Seattle based company is growing. Meanwhile Spr[...]
How Federal Income Tax Works
This post expands on a comment I made to another post. The federal income tax is confusing to many people. Like everything else, it’s easier to grasp if you know the basic principles. The general idea is to tax income, but only once. First, you have to define “income,” then specify[...]