Poor People

[nordlead]

trashleg said:

nordlead said:

No, I have never been in a public school ever, I was homeschooled. My parents paid taxes even though we never received a penny for it, and my kids will also be homeschooled. Hopefully my grandkids will be homeschooled since I think homeschooling is great. So that will be ~60 years of taxes just from me (or ~240k) that I never get a peny out of for any of my family in either direction.

Also, our taxes aren't like VAT. VAT is included in the sticker price. So if you buy a 20GBP item, then at the register it is 20GBP. If you buy a $20 item in the US then at the register it is $21.65. (tax varies by area) While most the time I don't care about the sales tax, sometimes you really have to sit down and figure out if you can afford it due to the taxes.

holy shit, i see now why you're so against it. o.0

homeschooling isn't all that common here, most people are state-schoolies. and that VAT thing must be confusing

thank you for taking the time to clarify everything, i really am ignorant of the US way of things.

Well, as I said, the worst thing about the school tax is they give us a rebate. Which is stupid.

The worst thing about taxes (in their current form anyway) is that they are oppressive to poor people. I know some people that are going to lose their house even though they own it. They owe a lot in taxes that they can't afford and because they owe property tax if they can't pay it off the government will kick them out of their house and sell it to collect. Now, it is partially the situations surrounding them as people refused to pay for services rendered, but they are partially to blame for their problems. Due to not paying off high interest loans compared to low interest loans (and instead they piled up) and not eating at home for lunch ($3/lunch compared to $8, which would save them ~3k/year) amonst other easy money savers, it still really sucks for them. If they swapped over to an income tax only, or possibly a income/sales tax combination they wouldn't be threatened to lose their house.

Ultimately, if you want to be rich, learn to pinch pennies now, as simple tricks can really add up in the future once you really have a good savings to work with. Ultimately the rule is, spend as little as possible and pay as late as possible while collecting as early as possible and as much as possible.