Mr. Blonde Financial Facepalm - Nubblies.net Forums

THEINCREDIBLEdork · 10-13-2011, 10:10 PM

Blonde posted a very obvious fact of life, admitting he had not known prior how the tax system worked. This is hard to fathom since he has held a job before and as a working, voting, college educated citizen, it should be his responsibility to know where his money goes to when he's working.

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Originally Posted by Mr. Blonde

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Example with fake numbers:
You make $50,001 in a year.
1-10000 is taxed at 10% - This means $1000 of tax.
10001 - 25000 is taxed at 12.5% - This means 1875 of tax.
25001 - 50000 is taxed at 15% - This means 3750 of tax.
50001 - 100000 is taxed at 20%. - this means $0.20 of tax.
Had you made one dollar less you would have paid $0.20 less tax, but taken home $0.80 less.
This is how the United States tax system works for standard earned income. Earning more money does not retroactively tax you. Again, this does not hold true for capital gains, they operate differently.

.I just heard this today. Is this truly how it works??? If so, why is this fact not commonly recognized?

This show of ignorance could have been forgiven; however, in the face of being reassured by several other educated people, that yes, this indeed was common knowledge, in defense of himself, he continued to imply many other people probably didn't know this either. He then linked to a random post on a website call Reddit, a site commonly known for it's ignorant and absent minded user base, from someone who for all we know could be a 12 year old.

This is why I strongly believe that people should have to pass a basic knowledge test to be able to vote. Yes, it would probably prevent a lot of minorities and other people with disorders of the autistic spectrum from voting. But if they are ignorant of the way things currently are, they don't really know what impact what they are voting for will have.

A test would prevent people from voting on whosoever campaign "feels good" at the moment. Voting would really be about the issues.

For all intensive purposes, please discuss.

Mr. Blonde · 10-13-2011, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Mistoffelees

For all intensive purposes, please discuss.

omg are you serious faith in humanity -10

Mr. Blonde · 10-13-2011, 10:39 PM

FTR I think a voting test, even the citizenship test that immigrants have to take to become citizens, should definitely be used to allow somebody to vote.

Mr. Blonde · 10-13-2011, 10:42 PM

BUT UNTIL THEN YEEEEEEHAWWWW MUTHAFUCKAS!!!!

Saint DH · 10-13-2011, 11:27 PM

I doubt many citizens of this country could pass the test for citizenship. My chink professor was worried about passing the test when he decided to become a citizen. I honestly almost felt bad calling him a chink there because he's such a cool guy.

Mr. Blonde · 10-14-2011, 01:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Dirty Harry

I doubt many citizens of this country could pass the test for citizenship.

Why do you think that is?

thekremlin · 10-14-2011, 02:35 AM

You can tell we're all past college age because the "cool kids" are pickin' on Blonde because he doesn't know his tax law.

DDTempest · 10-14-2011, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by thekremlin

You can tell we're all past college age because the "cool kids" are pickin' on Blonde because he doesn't know his tax law.

Blonde is generally "Mr. Informed" on every issue social or science related ... it was genuinely shocking that he didn't even have the slightest idea how it worked.

DJ FC · 10-14-2011, 06:56 AM

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Originally Posted by DDTempest

Blonde is generally "Mr. Informed" on every issue social or science related ... it was genuinely shocking that he didn't even have the slightest idea how it worked.

lol wut?

he just talks more

Mr. Blonde · 10-14-2011, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by DJ FC

lol wut?

he just talks more

u jelly bruh?

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10-13-2011, 10:39 PM	#3 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 284106	FTR I think a voting test, even the citizenship test that immigrants have to take to become citizens, should definitely be used to allow somebody to vote.

10-13-2011, 10:42 PM	#4 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 284106	BUT UNTIL THEN YEEEEEEHAWWWW MUTHAFUCKAS!!!!

10-13-2011, 11:27 PM	#5 (permalink)
Saint DH Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 6,147 Internets: 284753	I doubt many citizens of this country could pass the test for citizenship. My chink professor was worried about passing the test when he decided to become a citizen. I honestly almost felt bad calling him a chink there because he's such a cool guy.

10-14-2011, 02:35 AM	#7 (permalink)
thekremlin Don't call me Shirley Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: London Posts: 3,271 Internets: 220249	You can tell we're all past college age because the "cool kids" are pickin' on Blonde because he doesn't know his tax law.