How are you Coping with Covid?

Compared to last March, my liquor bill has gone up

  • less than $100

    Votes: 6 66.7%
  • $100-$200

    Votes: 1 11.1%
  • $200-$300

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • $300-$400+

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I don't drink....I take drugs.

    Votes: 2 22.2%

  • Total voters
    9
Yes, there are according to the law. It is the same as if I provide you the amount of money something is worth.

He's an idiot and a scofflaw.

Under his theory, the only time a tax is due is when one party to a transaction gets screwed, and the screwer pays on the amount he bilked the chump. LOL

Hey a chump could declare a loss and deduct it from other taxes for being a sucker! The sucker deduction!
 
Taxes? Let's take an example: What do I get from the 18.3 cents of tax per gallon the federal government takes?

You get a federal highway system. And that is heavily subsidized. It has been the same since 1993, when the amount that 18.3 was twice as valuable. If it were adjusted for inflation, it would be 33 cents today.

But you really do not need to be provided anything for your taxes. Taxes are owed on barter, whether you like it or not. It is owed whether you get anything for the taxes or not. Any transaction where you get something, you owe taxes on.

I don't have to support the law to know the law exists.
 
How are you coping with COVID? How has the COVID pandemic affected you personally?

Thankfully, it's been much milder in my life than the lives of friends and family. We only go out once a week as opposed to 2-3 times, now usually timed with medical appointments unrelated to COVID and see family less. As such, by spending less my savings have shot up 200-300%. Good for me but bad for business owners.

How are you Coping with Covid?

Im not..... i a am coping with the fucking POS idiots that think we all going to die
 
How are you Coping with Covid?

Im not..... i a am coping with the fucking POS idiots that think we all going to die

Angry you are. Dying of ass cancer before COVID you will! LOL Sorry, that was Yoda hogging the computer.
 
Soooo, like the Jihadist Muslims, you seek to overpower the secular government and dictate your view of beliefs upon all?

That's what the anti-abortion laws are all about, isn't it? All the assisted suicide laws? Sex laws?

There are Olympic level pole vaulters who train all their lives and cannot make the leap you just made.
 
There are Olympic level pole vaulters who train all their lives and cannot make the leap you just made.

If you've read the general content of this forum you'd know it's a baby step, not a pole vault.

Do you think it's wrong for an asshole to abuse their position to push a political agenda? Asking for a friend.
 
If you've read the general content of this forum you'd know it's a baby step, not a pole vault.

Do you think it's wrong for an asshole to abuse their position to push a political agenda? Asking for a friend.

There are types of Christians that don't abide or turn the other cheek and rather seek to evangelize. When representing Christ your hand should only use guidance with an extended hand and not a dictating point of the finger. Doing such alienates rather than soothes and is what will drive more people from the faith. They think they are doing God's work but they forget Christ in their actions and drive people further away from God.
 
Yes, there are according to the law. It is the same as if I provide you the amount of money something is worth.

If you are provided a service and pay for it with money, the person receiving the money has to pay taxes. If two people provide services to each other because neither is capable of doing what the other can do, there are no taxes to pay.

By definition, barter does not include money, therefore, it cant be the same as if you provide the amount of money.
 
If you are provided a service and pay for it with money, the person receiving the money has to pay taxes. If two people provide services to each other because neither is capable of doing what the other can do, there are no taxes to pay.

It becomes easier to hide a service, but technically even a service must be reported. Any exchange of goods or services must be reported, and taxes must be paid on it.

Lets say one person babysits while the other cleans house. Who to say they are not just babysitting and cleaning house for free, so will probably get away with it. But if it is on a larger basis, lets say one company provides transportation, and the other provides medical diagnosis... That would trigger the IRS.

There is sometimes an effort by corporations to use barter to hide income. It is often caught.

By definition, barter does not include money, therefore, it cant be the same as if you provide the amount of money.

That is where it gets UGLY!!! So you have to pay taxes on the "fair market value" of the goods or service that you are bartering. In a normal business transaction, the seller wants a higher price, and the buyer wants a lower price. In a barter transaction, because the price (in money) is never paid, both want the lower price to pay the lowest taxes. They will then claim a ridiculously low price... So far so good. Then the IRS will make a ruling that it is the "standard advertised price". The problem is that is often a starting point for a negotiation down to a real price.

So lets say someone advertises a house for sale for $300k. You would have been able to negotiate them down to $270k. Instead, you paint them a painting you could sell for somewhere between $200k and $300k. You would both like to set the price for everything at $100k, to save everyone tax money. The IRS will probably demand the price be $300k, even though there is no way anyone would have gotten $300k for that house.
 
There are types of Christians that don't abide or turn the other cheek and rather seek to evangelize. When representing Christ your hand should only use guidance with an extended hand and not a dictating point of the finger. Doing such alienates rather than soothes and is what will drive more people from the faith. They think they are doing God's work but they forget Christ in their actions and drive people further away from God.

Such people aren't being Christian when they do so. Lip-service Christians. They seem to believe they are Christian but are too stupid or mentally ill to understand why they are not.
 
There are Olympic level pole vaulters who train all their lives and cannot make the leap you just made.
If you've read the general content of this forum you'd know it's a baby step, not a pole vault.

Do you think it's wrong for an asshole to abuse their position to push a political agenda? Asking for a friend.
What position is being abused?

It doesn't matter. It was a general question, a question you are avoiding answering. That, by itself, is an answer. :)
 
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