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OMG... waist and hypocrisy in government. That's so NEW. 
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How come, every year, they take more out of my check,
every week, than I end up oweing them for the year,
and I hafta file, and wait, to get my money back,
that they've had the use of all year?
How's that for a run on sentence?
I guess I need to run for office,
Uncle Charlie
Ummm...no Charlie. You don't need to run for office, you just need to make a whole heck of a lot more money, that's all! THEN ya see, you can convince those folks already in office((with, of course, "a little" contribution to their re-election fund) that you're already sendin' 'em way too much and can barely keep your head above water as it is, and because so many other people depend on you to create jobs for 'em, you should be paying far less percentage-wise that those folks you're creatin' jobs for!
(...uh huh...all ya gotta do is make a heck of a lot more money, preferably at least 5 or 6 Mil a year, and then just play the game as it presently stands, THAT'S all!!!...and yep, I know, I'm right again, huh...don't cha just HATE that?!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Oh, by the way 1 outta 4 "tax returns" will be audited this year.
Uh...not.
According to the IRS website "about 1.1% of tax returns can expect to be audited in 2012."
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Oh, by the way 1 outta 4 "tax returns" will be audited this year.
Uh...not.
According to the IRS website "about 1.1% of tax returns can expect to be audited in 2012."
that's almost 25%, right?
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Batman is fighting Darth Vader with lightsabers. Your argument is invalid. 
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Are you laughing at me?
Yeah, you're probably right again anyway.
I need to make MORE money!
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The bunny all ways makes me smile
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Oh, by the way 1 outta 4 "tax returns" will be audited this year.
Uh...not.
According to the IRS website "about 1.1% of tax returns can expect to be audited in 2012."
that's almost 25%, right?
Well, "not exactly", Dave.
BUT, did you know that only .0000000012 percent of all the bunnies in the world have a pancake on their head???
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Oh, by the way 1 outta 4 "tax returns" will be audited this year.
Uh...not.
According to the IRS website "about 1.1% of tax returns can expect to be audited in 2012."
that's almost 25%, right?
Well, "not exactly", Dave.
BUT, did you know that only .0000000012 percent of all the bunnies in the world have a pancake on their head???
state your source, please
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Are you laughing at me?
Yeah, you're probably right again anyway.
I need to make MORE money!
Nah, I wasn't laughin' at you, Charlie. I was REALLY more laughing at the situation we presently have in this country regarding all the loopholes in the tax system.
(...and I usually laugh instead of cry or get really upset about stuff that makes no sense at all in this world for my own mental health)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Batman is fighting Darth Vader with lightsabers. Your argument is invalid.
that pic is sweet 
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Oh, by the way 1 outta 4 "tax returns" will be audited this year.
Uh...not.
According to the IRS website "about 1.1% of tax returns can expect to be audited in 2012."
that's almost 25%, right?
Well, "not exactly", Dave.
BUT, did you know that only .0000000012 percent of all the bunnies in the world have a pancake on their head???
state your source, please
Why, Playboy Magazine of course, Dave!
(...but I believe that bunny figure included all the bunnies either formerly or presently residing at Hef's mansion in La La Land TOO, and so we're not talkin' about just those little cuddly bunnies like the one you supplied a picture of earlier here...and so, I hope this at least clears THIS issue up in this crazy ol' thread here, anyway!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Oh, by the way 1 outta 4 "tax returns" will be audited this year.
Uh...not.
According to the IRS website "about 1.1% of tax returns can expect to be audited in 2012."
There are audits and then there are AUDITS. There are full blown audits targeting individuals or business. Then there are audits of specific types of businesses, for example in the past they went after real estate sales people, office in homes, construction etc. Lastly there is the return that gets computer flagged because some entry on the return is outside predetermined parameters, high employment expenses or mileage. The first is what I consider a true audit, it's expensive, you bring every thing, I prefer their office. The second two can be done with a phone and fax machine.I tell my clients to keep their mouths shut unless I ask the question, oh! and bring their checkbook. 
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How come, every year, they take more out of my check,
every week, than I end up oweing them for the year,
and I hafta file, and wait, to get my money back,
that they've had the use of all year?
How's that for a run on sentence?
I guess I need to run for office,
Uncle Charlie
Here's a link to the historic tax rates including inflationary adjustments. <http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/151.html>
Take a look at the upper income rates under Eisenhower. Know what rich people did when their tax rates were really high? They re-invested their money back into their business, which created jobs. Historically, whenever tax rates are cut on the upper income they take profits instead of investing the money back in their businesses. This is common knowledge and anyone who has taken econ 101 knows this but that is not what is said by some running for office.
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Well Chet, if ya ask ME, I think the Good Ol' U.S. of A has bigger problems than just all the people who have apparently been buyin' into this whole "Trickle Down Theory" these last few decades!
(...uh huh...I think Congress should FIRST pass a law that makes it illegal to place pancakes on poor little bunny rabbit heads...and THAT include those little bunnies at Hef's mansion TOO!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Well Chet, if ya ask ME, I think the Good Ol' U.S. of A has bigger problems than just all the people who have apparently been buyin' into this whole "Trickle Down Theory" these last few decades!
(...uh huh...I think Congress should FIRST pass a law that makes it illegal to place pancakes on poor little bunny rabbit heads...and THAT include those little bunnies at Hef's mansion TOO!!!)
I don't know, Dwight. A baby doll with a pancake on her head sounds like a slice of heaven to me.
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It got up to 54F here today.
And, it's gonna be warmer tomorrow.
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Super Bowl week is hilarious. It was like Antarctica in Dallas last year and after bemoaning a midwestern SB for months I heard an ESPN host refer to Indy as being "like Maui".
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I'm gonna vote for Ted Nugent for Pres.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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Super Bowl week is hilarious. It was like Antarctica in Dallas last year and after bemoaning a midwestern SB for months I heard an ESPN host refer to Indy as being "like Maui".
Yep, 'cept I don't think Duke Kahanamoku ever surfed down the White River and past the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument there.
(...nope, I'm pretty sure the furthest east he ever got was somewhere on the wide Missouri, just past Omaha!)
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I'm gonna vote for Ted Nugent for Pres.
Well, he's not my cup of tea but I haven't seen anyone in the primaries that's more qualified...or electable.
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Super Bowl week is hilarious. It was like Antarctica in Dallas last year and after bemoaning a midwestern SB for months I heard an ESPN host refer to Indy as being "like Maui".
Yep, 'cept I don't think Duke Kahanamoku ever surfed down the White River and past the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument there.
(...nope, I'm pretty sure the furthest east he ever got was somewhere on the wide Missouri, just past Omaha!)
I'd never walked downtown Indy until a couple years ago. It's actually pretty cool. They've put sidewalks along the old canals and they are below street level so it's like you're walking through a park, you can't hear the traffic although it's just above you, until you walk up a flight of stairs and find yourself in the middle of downtown. Pretty neat and quite different.
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My parents were born and bred in Indy before movin' out to L.A. right after Pop got his "Ruptured Duck" pin from his service in WWII. And so, as a kid back in the '50s and '60s our family drove back there to visit the family livin' there a few times.
I remember being very unimpressed with the place back then, however I've heard they've done some very nice things to the town since that time, and one will occasionally read in those kinds of "10 Best Places to Live" articles on the net or in magazines that Indy is now often mentioned in 'em.
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Oh, there's no question Indy has gone through its own Renaissance. I don't know what the canals used to be like (Indy's nickname is the crossroads. There are about 6 Interstates that run through it but, previously, there were canals) but they are now lovely water features that run throughout downtown. They are below street level with sidewalks along them. You can walk all throughout downtown with a feeling of being in a park with no traffic noise but every block, or so, you just walk up a flight of stairs and you are in the middle of downtown. Lucas Oil Stadium is within a block, or so, of the canals. They have a Triple A stadium that is unbelievable and situated between Lucas Stadium and NCAA Headquarters. A natatorium and velodrome nearby. Conseco Fieldhouse is within a couple blocks. Indy may be the only city on Earth that could put on the Olympics without building anything.
I'm guessing that's why the NCAA relocated there.
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Damn! I got here too late for the bunny thing. So now my Hasenpfeffer with pancakes comment will be out of order 
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The kids wanted bunnies many years ago, so we bought two and named them Hoss and Feffer.
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My parents were born and bred in Indy before movin' out to L.A. right after Pop got his "Ruptured Duck" pin from his service in WWII. And so, as a kid back in the '50s and '60s our family drove back there to visit the family livin' there a few times.
I remember being very unimpressed with the place back then, however I've heard they've done some very nice things to the town since that time, and one will occasionally read in those kinds of "10 Best Places to Live" articles on the net or in magazines that Indy is now often mentioned in 'em.
One thing I liked about Indy was the IUPUI Campus. My stepdad had to go to the hospital there several times for heart issues, and the whole campus is connected by underground service tunnels. Now, that might sound odd, but if you grew up in the midwest, you know what the wind can be like in places like Indy in the winter. It either blows or sucks!  The tunnels are heated by the steam pipes and they are open to students and the public, so you can cross the entire camups in warmth. After going to WIU in Macomb, IL, where we had to cross a 15 acre parking lot to the campus from the dorms, and the wind was always blowing, this was a much appreciated feature by me!
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I'm gonna vote for Ted Nugent for Pres.
Well, he's not my cup of tea but I haven't seen anyone in the primaries that's more qualified...or electable.
I agree.
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Oh, by the way 1 outta 4 "tax returns" will be audited this year.
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According to the IRS website "about 1.1% of tax returns can expect to be audited in 2012."
that's almost 25%, right?
I were just going by what the lady who prepared my taxes said. It could be just her firm who knows. She said the IRS rep told them 1 outta 4. Yup that be 25%, and with the huge increase in the number of agents this year I know they are out to do something.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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25% seems high, but you are right about the increase hiring at the IRS. Just a heads up for you filers. http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/01/30/dont-get-audited-the-irss-dirty-dozen-red-flags/
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Hey guys, besides my earlier suggestion that Congress should make placing pancakes on the heads of bunnies illegal, I've just thought of ANOTHER thing those folks sittin' on their keesters there in Washington D.C. ought'a get right on before they tackle the subject of our tax codes. And THAT would be that they ALSO make it illegal(with a fine of 50 percent of whatever a singer makes in a year) for any singer to throw in more than two short shots of that coloratura crap while singing our national anthem before any sporting events. AND, maybe make it a fine of 75% of their yearly income IF they succumb to the temptation to do that crap before the freakin' Super Bowl!!! (...'cause I don't know about YOU, but I'm pretty darn tired of watchin' and hearin' these people tryin' to "impress us" with their vocal range before I settle back to watch a game...yep, JUST sing the freakin' SONG, you freakin' DIVAS!!!)  
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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One of the best points you have made in a while, Dwight, totally in favor of complete implementation.
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Why, THANK you Ryk!  And NOW all we gotta do is get a senator and a congressman to introduce a bill like this into their respective Houses. (...of course, knowing how those folks there can't seem to even agree on what shade of blue the sky is anymore, my hopes of somethin' like this passing in EITHER House isn't exactly, well, "sky high" at the moment!)
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As much as I hate to hear the psuedo talented celebrities caterwauling out the National Anthem. NO NEW LAWS TAKE SOME OF THE OLD ONES OUT!
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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As much as I hate to hear the psuedo talented celebrities caterwauling out the National Anthem. NO NEW LAWS TAKE SOME OF THE OLD ONES OUT!
CrazyHorse for President!
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I remember once when Sinatra doobie-dooed the national anthem.
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I remember once when Sinatra doobie-dooed the national anthem.
Funny you mention that, Bill. Word is there's a certain gentlemen who resides in British Columbia who once "doobie-dooed" the Canadian National Anthem!
Uh huh. I hear it went somethin' like...
"O Canada,
Our home and umm...and umm...
Duuuuude, it's a really cool place to live, eh!"
(...of course, this is ALL just second hand smok...err, information, so don't quote me on this)
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