As millions of procrastinators scramble to meet Monday’s tax filing deadline, ponder this: The super rich pay a lot less taxes than they did a couple of decades ago, and nearly half of U.S. households pay no income taxes at all.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110417/ap_on_re_us/us_no_taxes

Unemployment is higher in every California city than those above. The state is going into a death spiral with layoffs of fire, police, and educators.  Medical freebies were severly cut this week.  Higher taxes are expected to help, but they will bury business growth prospects.

Hiring chances are better in the cities mentioned. Employers and job hunters are exiting the Golden State in record numbers.  This one is, was, and will always be a model of democratic socialism in government.

To sell houses, you need buyers that can qualify, and make those low low payments.  It takes jobs.

The point:  California real estate is still overvalued by 20-40%.  It dropped until all the equity was gone.  Those that won’t or can’t sell at a loss are paying their mortgages, praying, and looking for an exit.  Repos are at a well concealed level.  If you have CASH, offer 25% below asking, and wait.

Prices will drop for two more years, then collapse.

I got laid off and to be able to better market myself in todays job market, I went to school last year while collecting unemployment. My income from unemployment benefit was about 19,800 for 2010. In order to support myself I needed every cent for rent and food, I filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy and got rid of all payments other than food, rent and utilities.

They wanted to take $120 in taxes out of $360 weekly benefit, which there was no way I could have lived on supporting myself and a kid too. I filed for food stamps but apparently I make too much gross per week income to be eligible for assistance, so I declined for the taxes to be taken out of my unemployment benefits.

I have graduated from school and got certified as a medical assistant, still unemployed and on the last leg of the unemployment. Paying $650 a month for rent for me and my son, about $400 a month for food for two, and about $300 for utilities and yes I am barely scraping by.

I was doing the Turbo Tax and almost got all the way through and after all the deductions, there was not a lot for unemployed person collecting unemployment benefits. I have to pay almost $2,000 in taxes??????

So, do I wait until the IRS to lock me up for not paying the taxes which I can’t pay due to no-income? Or, should I be buying a gun and start robbing other richer people like some people seem to be doing? IRS or tax collectors don’t seem to give a **bleep** about anyone but them selves, so what are the options for the people like me stuck right in the middle. I just saw some Mexican people buying food at a local store, I was disgusted! Here I am buying all generic and stuff on sale and with a coupons, this family of five were buying about $400 worth of good food with food stamps. I am a US Citizen and these people were not. I kindly asked them some questions and they were nice enough to answer, they purchase this amount of food every week, and they receive about $1,200 a month in food + $300 in cash assistance, and they both have a job where they make in excess of $2,400 a month, they own a car and an suv and they live in a house.

So, why do I feel like Uncle Sam is bending me over and slapping my monkey?

                NOW DIESEL FUEL COST’S MORE THAN REGULAR GASOLINE     SOME PLACES 30 CENTS MORE

      Here is the clincher, as a lot of people know      IT  COST’S LESS TO REFINE DIESEL FUEL THAN IT DOES REGULAR GASOLINE.     so why are the owners of small trucks being charged more? I can understand charging the tractor and trailer rigs more. They haul goods across america and can pass the extra cost on to the consumer but the small truck owner doesn’t have this advantage. We are really getting ripped off by the people that push for higher stock prices and our own government through higher taxes that it brings in to buy  foreign countries loyalities. And by the oil companies that use any excuse to raise the cost of fuel.  I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A ONE DAY A WEEK WHERE DIESEL TRUCK OWNERS ACROSS AMERICA  DIDN’T DRIVE. AND IF THERE COULD BE TWO DAYS THAT WOULD BE EVEN BETTER.   I  WONDER WHAT KIND OF RESULTS THIS WOULD BRING.  I CAN UNDERSTAND IF SOME OWNERS CAN’T BECAUSE THEY USE THEM FOR WORK.

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