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Old 03-04-2019, 05:53 AM
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Originally Posted by RJSAviator76 View Post
It certainly is their fault that they foster this behavior. And these people ain’t “kids.” They’re adults old enough to vote and shape our country’s direction.

If you need playdough, puppies, safe space, crayons and days off school JUST BECAUSE you didn’t get your way, you should be declared mentally incompetent, shipped off to a mental institution and lose your right to vote or own a gun... not have this nonsense encouraged by the so-called “higher education.”
We call you a hypocrite. You disagree with someone's belief no matter how ridiculous it is and you want to start stripping rights. I'd bet you'd love to declare gay people insane too and take away their rights too.

But if anyone from the other side of the political spectrum wants to increase punishments for irresponsible gun owners, make it harder to get guns or even study gun deaths in America, you pick up your bullhorn and threaten a civil war.
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Old 03-04-2019, 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by ChecklistMonkey View Post
We call you a hypocrite. You disagree with someone's belief no matter how ridiculous it is and you want to start stripping rights. I'd bet you'd love to declare gay people insane too and take away their rights too.

But if anyone from the other side of the political spectrum wants to increase punishments for irresponsible gun owners, make it harder to get guns or even study gun deaths in America, you pick up your bullhorn and threaten a civil war.
What’s funny is just because I think gay marriage is a sin or not isn’t the reason I don’t want the government to approve or deny the marriage. I don’t want the government to have any say on any marriage. I want the government out of my life. They shouldn’t have any say on who can get married or not because it shouldn’t matter.
Who decides who is an irresponsible gun owner? If my toddler got my gun and committed suicide I would be charged in his death... It’s also why I teach my kids how to handle guns, how to shoot guns, and respect guns for the tool they are. When you can get politicians to stop calling a gun a fully semi automatic and realize that a revolver is a semi automatic by the true definition of the term it would be a start to having a gun discussion.
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Old 03-04-2019, 11:13 AM
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Originally Posted by hilltopflyer View Post
What’s funny is just because I think gay marriage is a sin or not isn’t the reason I don’t want the government to approve or deny the marriage. I don’t want the government to have any say on any marriage. I want the government out of my life. They shouldn’t have any say on who can get married or not because it shouldn’t matter.
Who decides who is an irresponsible gun owner? If my toddler got my gun and committed suicide I would be charged in his death... It’s also why I teach my kids how to handle guns, how to shoot guns, and respect guns for the tool they are. When you can get politicians to stop calling a gun a fully semi automatic and realize that a revolver is a semi automatic by the true definition of the term it would be a start to having a gun discussion.
Do you want to keep the tax and legal advantages of your marriage?
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Old 03-04-2019, 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by hilltopflyer View Post
What’s funny is just because I think gay marriage is a sin or not isn’t the reason I don’t want the government to approve or deny the marriage. I don’t want the government to have any say on any marriage. I want the government out of my life. They shouldn’t have any say on who can get married or not because it shouldn’t matter.
Who decides who is an irresponsible gun owner? If my toddler got my gun and committed suicide I would be charged in his death... It’s also why I teach my kids how to handle guns, how to shoot guns, and respect guns for the tool they are. When you can get politicians to stop calling a gun a fully semi automatic and realize that a revolver is a semi automatic by the true definition of the term it would be a start to having a gun discussion.
The government SHOULDN'T tell people they can't get married if they are two consenting adults.

So if the government shouldn't be involved, should we allow child brides? And to use your people's favorite retort, should we allow people to marry animals? The answer to those is clearly a no. But if we stripped your legal protections and tax breaks for being married, you and your buddies would be leading the riot.
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Old 03-04-2019, 11:44 AM
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Marriage was a religious ceremony that was turned into a legal one and then the government incentivized it (in the form of tax breaks) to encourage the behavior as marriage does have societal benefits such as having offspring.

Just another example of how government shouldn't really be in our lives depsite good intentions. I agree with the above poster, take a step back and look at how embedded what we do on a daily basis and why is a function of government.

I'm not some crazy antigovernment tin foil hat wearer but it does bother me how much of our behavior is dictated by it.

Who cares if someone wants to "marry" a bird? Does it impact you and what life you live? If there are no "incentives" or tax breaks or whatnot it becomes merely some random ceremony, all that's happening now is you have some people dictating what others cannot do. How free is our society, really?

Marriage used to occur much earlier in life for farm production reasons. And the "women" were very young and had kids from the get go, what would be considered unethical and illegal today. So keep the age of consent, if it truly is an issue. As it is most kids even 20 years ago were having sex in the 14-16 range.
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Old 03-04-2019, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by ChecklistMonkey View Post
We call you a hypocrite. You disagree with someone's belief no matter how ridiculous it is and you want to start stripping rights. I'd bet you'd love to declare gay people insane too and take away their rights too.

But if anyone from the other side of the political spectrum wants to increase punishments for irresponsible gun owners, make it harder to get guns or even study gun deaths in America, you pick up your bullhorn and threaten a civil war.

Ah, here we go with putting words in my mouth. Not even close. I don't have anything against gay people. It's none of my business what two consenting adults do in their bedroom. I do, however, detest what that movement has become in recent years because the tolerance they sought has now become "celebrate us or we'll destroy you." That's not freedom, that's tyranny. Funny thing is, more and more gay people are waking up to this and are speaking out against this including a really good friend of ours who happens to be gay as well.

But that's another discussion altogether. We're talking snowflakes here.

If you have a meltdown to the point that you're not functional just because you didn't get your way, heard an opposing viewpoint and now require therapy, play dough, puppies, day to be curled up sucking your thumb in a "safe space" then that, by definition, is a mental disorder. That's not rational or normal behavior.

I didn't care for Obama because I didn't care about his policies or his agenda. He was elected, and I accepted it. Didn't like it, but I also didn't need a safe space, nor did I need time off work or study just because my preferred candidate lost, nor did I lose my marbles because someone close to me celebrated Obama winning or agreeing with his policies.

Look at what's happening right now. People get violently assaulted only for having a differing opinion and being called names that diminish the meaning of it. Look at the UC Berkeley assault that just happened. The kid who was punched was called a racist and was assaulted simply because he supported our president. I vehemently disagree with today's left and the Democratic Party, but if anyone did that to a Bernie or AOC fan, I'd want to see the book thrown at them as well.

In short, we need to be adults and be responsible for our own behavior.
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Old 03-04-2019, 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Name User View Post
Marriage was a religious ceremony that was turned into a legal one and then the government incentivized it (in the form of tax breaks) to encourage the behavior as marriage does have societal benefits such as having offspring.

Just another example of how government shouldn't really be in our lives depsite good intentions. I agree with the above poster, take a step back and look at how embedded what we do on a daily basis and why is a function of government.

I'm not some crazy antigovernment tin foil hat wearer but it does bother me how much of our behavior is dictated by it.

Who cares if someone wants to "marry" a bird? Does it impact you and what life you live? If there are no "incentives" or tax breaks or whatnot it becomes merely some random ceremony, all that's happening now is you have some people dictating what others cannot do. How free is our society, really?

Marriage used to occur much earlier in life for farm production reasons. And the "women" were very young and had kids from the get go, what would be considered unethical and illegal today. So keep the age of consent, if it truly is an issue. As it is most kids even 20 years ago were having sex in the 14-16 range.
There is a big difference between two 14 year olds getting married (still fairly inappropriate given our current understanding of human mental development) and a 30 year old marrying a 14 year old (was legal in Missouri until recently). Governmental marriage may have started as an extension of religion reproductive incentives, the current legal framework is there to protect family units...something that LGBT didn't have until recently.
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Old 03-04-2019, 12:05 PM
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Back on topic, just finished up my tax return today with our CPA.

For 2017, my effective tax rate was 12.9%.

For 2018 under the new tax law, I lost about 10k worth of deductions, but my effective tax rate was 10.8%.

Married, single income and an empty-nester. Overall, happy with the new law.
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Old 03-04-2019, 12:19 PM
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Curious—did you really need the CPA or could you have gotten the same result with TurboTax?

Considering the latter.
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Old 03-04-2019, 12:27 PM
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Curious—did you really need the CPA or could you have gotten the same result with TurboTax?



Considering the latter.


We have a rental property and a side gig so we used our CPA.

If all you have is your W-2, then you might as well do it yourself.
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