Where did my tax dollars go?
Have you seen this? It’s great. Plug in your gross income and it’ll figure out where your tax dollars went.
Ten percent of my tax dollars went into a category called “Net Interest” and 43% of that went into a subcategory called “Interest Paid to Trust Fund Receipt Accounts”.
Hold. The. Fucking. Phone.
This isn’t that type of Trust Fund, is it? Cause that is some bullshit. The idea that my tax dollars could potentially be going to support some asshole, fuckface, ski trip taking, GHB using, greek pledeging, future Senator of America when they could be going to ANY NUMBER OF OTHER THINGS! AGH!
Meanwhile, only $126 of my taxes went towards Pell Grants and $23 went towards disaster relief.
Someone please tell me I’m thinking of the wrong thing on this trust fund thing.
We cashed in our Superman piggy bank today. We believe it had been 3 years since the last time we emptied it out.
It paid for the majority of our groceries today.
Just paid off another credit card
I’ve had tremendous success paying off some of my debt using a method Shannon taught me, that I believe she in turn learned from Suzie Orman.
Step 1: Stop using your cards. I used to use credit cards for reoccurring charges and whenever I wasn’t sure of my checking balance. I moved all of my reoccurring charges to my checking and paid closer attention to my balance.
Step 2: I left nearly all my cards at home and only carried one credit card for purchases. When I carried a handful of cards, I had a tendency to rotate my use of them. All of my balances rose slowly at the same time. Rotating my card use had, in my opinion, cost me more than if I had just focused spending on one card. Leave them all at home.
Step 3: Pay the lowest card off first. My big balances got a monthly minimum, maybe a little more. My lowest balances got big payments, double, triple, quadruple the minimum payment due. When I paid off a low card, I refocused that payment into the next lowest. I shocked myself with how much money I was sending away to cards, but it worked.
New $100 Bill
I don’t give a shit how good it is at stopping counterfitters, that is ONE FUCKING UGLY PIECE OF MONEY.
Yeah, fancy-ass bell in the inkwell, I see you. I also get why all the bells and whistles are necessary. But if we wanted to make fairy-ass European rainbow money, we should go all the way. Laser cats fucking John Edwards in the face. Etc. This mostly-green but with a splash of orange crud is basically like having a drunk unicorn barf on your wedding dress.
Look at this classic design:
Now look at that giant Helvetica 100. Look at it. Jesus.
Good thing it is highly likely that I WILL NEVER NEED ONE.
Source: wadcity
About to do my taxes. My entire refund is going towards the wedding, but I’m open to suggestions for something to waste it on.
What should I (not really) spend my tax refund on?
If you do good in high school, they will send you to college for free. Do that.
Investment help from Mint.com
Obama signs bill with new rules for credit cards
- Bills can be paid online or over the phone without incurring a processing fee.
- Customers must be over 60 days late on payments before their interest rate can be raised on balances; if the rate is raised, it will go back to the lower rate if customers make the minimum payment on time for six months in a row.
- Overlimit fees can’t be charged unless cardholders are told that the purchase will put them over their limit and they authorize it to go through anyway.
- If your card has more than one interest rate on balances, then payments must be applied to the highest interest rate first.
Source: Lifehacker
I always get scared when I get a slim letter from one of my credit cards or bank. I’ve been broke and stupid with money in the past, and most of the time, a slim letter is overdraft notice of late payment notice.
I got one today, but didn’t open it until just now. One of my credit cards’ limits has been increased $4000.
My how times have changed.
Is it wrong I want to be this rich? Is it wrong that I want to do this even though I’m not that rich?
Believe, I’ll do this very act someday. With a stack of 500 singles if I have must.
Everyone knows how to make it rain, but some people forget about the “fake elevator” and “the palm frond”.
Source: heavy-backpack.com
'Wii Fit girl' resurfaces as EA Sports Active spokesmodel
Remember the video that hit Youtube.com of that woman playing the hula-hoop game on Wii Fit? She became a small internet sensation, hitting 2.7 million video views, and creating a few blog posts on how tasteful/distasteful it was for her boyfriend to post the video behind her back.
Well now she is a spokesmodel for EA Sports Active, a non-Nintendo made Wii game in the same vien as Wii Sports.
In short, she got a job out of fake hula-hooping.
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Source: nintendo.joystiq.com
“Should five per cent appear too small, be thankful I don’t take it all.”
I keep hearing Obama’s tax plan referred to as a redistribution of wealth. Without being an economist, thats sounds like malarky.
This link shows an interesting way of looking at the impact Obama’s (and McCain’s) tax plan couldhave: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/competing-tax-plans-two-perspectives/.
Here are some ways I look at (justify in my dark, liberal heart) a 12% increase in taxes for folks that make over 2 million:
1. Its one percent of the people that live in the states. Quite a few, but still only one percent.
2. As someone who has earned or inherited great wealth, doesn’t it behoove them to participate and invest in the democracy that’s allowed them to make this wealth?
3. Power. Even with 12% increase, folks that make that money find power in many other ways, because of thier income. Maybe its large campaign donations. Maybe its foundation giving. Maybe its real estate, local business influence, whatever. Think of it as a power tax.
4. I’ll never make that much. Fuck ‘em.
5. There are plenty of loopholes to get out of taxes. If Obama closes them, they’ll find more. All people of all classes do this. When was the last time you worked, “under the table.”
6. Trickle down didn’t work. GM, Ford, and Chrysler are still fucked. More jobs are going out the window. Consumers still lived on credit and not the new found wealth they achieved by the grand investment all of the top-tier people were suppose to make because of the tax cut.
7. We were at war, and while teenagers were losing their virginity to IDE’s, Bush gave a tax cut to his base.
8. I could sure use the extra money at the end of the year. I’m going to spend it on a wedding or an Xbox. Cash in my hand right back into the system. Doesn’t millions of yahoos like me, sending hundreds of dollars back into Best Buy or small business owners like banquet halls or caterers do more for the economy than few million more dollars tossed into oil commodities?
What do you think? Am I an idiot?
OHMYGOD!
GM and Chrysler are reportedly in talks about a merger. Holy shit.
Detroit's Ills Symptomatic Of a Manufacturing Plague
The Washington Post does another write-up on Detroit and Michigan and how its been affected the recent economic shit storm.
I don’t think calling these problems “ills symptomatic of a plague” does it justice. I’m thinking its more along the lines of “ground zero for the zombie apocolypse” or “AGGGHHH! AH, AH, AGGGHHHHHHH!”.
