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Have you ever voluntarily pay more taxes?

Have you ever voluntarily pay more taxes?


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Since we have had a few replies I will answer. No I have not voluntarily payed extra taxes. With that said I would voluntarily pay extra if and when I felt the government would spend it where I thought it should be spent and not waste it on things I do not feel that it should be. Seeing how Im more likely to win the lottery twice then to ever see that happening I doubt I ever voluntarily pay more then I am required to.

I already pay way too much in taxes. Giving the government extra money is a waste of money. Far better to give it to my alma mater, my kid's school, the olympic sports I support, homes for orphaned children etc
 
Raising the taxes are the wealthy is necessary because:

(1) reductions in spending that could make not raising taxes feasible aren't possible in a brief period of time

(2) the middle class is sunken into credit; only the wealthy have money to tax

The wealthy are the ones who provide jobs. If you raise their taxes, what do you think is going to happen? They will lay people off, cut the hours of the people they keep, stop hiring, and then raise their prices to make up for the tax hike. In other words, they won't be paying the hire taxes.....YOU will. Higher taxes only hurts the economy and costs jobs.
 
I already pay way too much in taxes. Giving the government extra money is a waste of money. Far better to give it to my alma mater, my kid's school, the olympic sports I support, homes for orphaned children etc


If the government did things correctly it would not be a waste of money. They could lower and eventually eliminate the debt therefor able to lower taxes on everyone eventually.
 
If the government did things correctly it would not be a waste of money. They could lower and eventually eliminate the debt therefor able to lower taxes on everyone eventually.


true-right now many politicians-mostly dems but more than a few Republicans-want us to pay more so they can convince the weakminded that more money is available to buy voters' support
 
I don't think so no.
It's considered a gift, but not a charitable donation.

Well there you go right there --- more people aren't donating because they cannot use the donation as a tax write off.
 
Is that even legal? I don't remember the option on any of my tax forms.

I'd be willing to pay extra in taxes, and I think that taxes need to be raised across the board, but that's a bit of an empty platitude for someone with no prospects of future employment.

You can pay more thoughout the year on your w9 or you can not file to get a refund, and I have done the later. If you are required to file and are due a refund, but refuse to take it then the IRS credits your account which means they'll still owe you the money in the future. Not taking your refund will just look like a debt on the government books, so you really aren't helping the debt by refusing to take money they rightfully owe to you... so in essence people are ignorant in suggesting anybody do this to pay down the deficit. :lol:
 
Kinda defeats the purpose of the gift in the first place though. :lol:

Well, for me personally - when has the government ever given me a gift of money that wasn't already earned by me? Never. So unless there's something in it for me, why gift money to a government that's historically shown irresponsibility with money. It's like giving crack to a crack whore who just wants a few EE bonds. yeah... right.
 
Well, for me personally - when has the government ever given me a gift of money that wasn't already earned by me? Never. So unless there's something in it for me, why gift money to a government that's historically shown irresponsibility with money. It's like giving crack to a crack whore who just wants a few EE bonds. yeah... right.

giving the federal government more money is akin to giving an alcoholic money to buy more booze

better to give the money to a private organization that tries to get drunks to stay clean and sober
 
Well, for me personally - when has the government ever given me a gift of money that wasn't already earned by me? Never. So unless there's something in it for me, why gift money to a government that's historically shown irresponsibility with money. It's like giving crack to a crack whore who just wants a few EE bonds. yeah... right.

Oh I understand.
I'm saying that making it tax deductible would be dumb and not really any better than just paying your regular taxes.
 
Oh I understand.
I'm saying that making it tax deductible would be dumb and not really any better than just paying your regular taxes.

Perhaps... I used to think that using Llama's as a tax shelter wasn't too bright either but apparently I was wrong.
 
Isn't there a post already on DP, saying the government doesn't have a revenue problem, but it has a spending problem. Donating money to the government is only going to make the government spending problem even worse.
 
Isn't there a post already on DP, saying the government doesn't have a revenue problem, but it has a spending problem. Donating money to the government is only going to make the government spending problem even worse.

Yes, and the left leaning types are posting up a storm about the usual things like: class warfare, ugly rich people, they wouldn't miss it; the right leaning types are sticking to spending within our means, cutting back, less government... and never the twain shall meet.
 
Lots of people volunteer to pay extra state and local taxes every day. If you've ever bought a lottery ticket, you've volunteered to pay an extra tax.
 
Lots of people volunteer to pay extra state and local taxes every day. If you've ever bought a lottery ticket, you've volunteered to pay an extra tax.

True, though there's one difference.... just giving a gift to government assures a 100.00% chance you will NOT receive any of that money in return. By buying a lottery ticket it assures a 99.99% change you will NOT receive any money in return (depending on what lottery you play, it only goes higher from there). A .01% chance on a rub off say, is better than 0.0% chance.
 
The wealthy are the ones who provide jobs. If you raise their taxes, what do you think is going to happen? They will lay people off, cut the hours of the people they keep, stop hiring, and then raise their prices to make up for the tax hike. In other words, they won't be paying the hire taxes.....YOU will. Higher taxes only hurts the economy and costs jobs.

The wealthy, by and large, don't provide jobs; they invest in business and business provides jobs. We would do far, far more good by cutting-- and eventually abolishing-- taxes on businesses than cutting taxes on the wealthy.
 
that is probably true.
 
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