By 1 measure, federal taxes lowest since 1950 ( Hog – Wash )
What a crock of hog wash!
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?
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