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Bengus81

(6,907 posts)
1. Yup...and get ready for gas prices to SPIKE
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 06:36 PM
Nov 2018

Might have to wait a few days so it doesn't look to rigged up but.......

bdamomma

(63,650 posts)
2. get ready
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 06:42 PM
Nov 2018

to have your medicare, medicaid and social security go to his rich friends, watch more shootings, more journalists getting dismembered, watch for more church killings, school shootings, nothing being done to help our environment.

Just my two cents if this horrible regime gets in. I want to see McConnell squirm.

TNNurse

(6,911 posts)
3. Wait until the do their taxes next April.
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 07:15 PM
Nov 2018

Not being able to deduct state income taxes and property taxes will get their attention.

mikeysnot

(4,755 posts)
21. And we better start now
Tue Nov 6, 2018, 12:24 PM
Nov 2018

and pound it home. Whenever I ehar someone say "boomin' economy" I will remind them about next year and when they do there taxes.

Rural_Progressive

(1,105 posts)
10. A friend of ours
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 07:46 PM
Nov 2018

heads up the AARP tax service for low income households in our county.

She just finished a workshop to learn about the new tax laws. I asked her how much simplification there is in the new program, her answer "The simplification is incredibly complex and that average tax payers were not going to be happy with what they see."

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
14. You mean I can't do it on a post card?
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 07:57 PM
Nov 2018

I have done my own taxes most of the time, especially now since I'm retired. I get away with filing a 1040A. I have to laugh when my Republican friends tell me they have to take their 1040EZ to their tax preparer.

I laughed at your comment, "the simplification is incredibly complex."

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
11. I have been saying the same thing.
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 07:51 PM
Nov 2018

What you said TNNurse plus, Trumpers are getting more in their paychecks because their employers are deducting less. Yeah, Trump doubled the standard deduction but he eliminated exemptions. Trumpers believe they are getting more money under Trump's tax cuts for the rich but they really won't know until they fill out their returns.

What good does it do if they get $3,000 more dollars during the year but have to pay $3,000 more in at the end of the year?

dhol82

(9,351 posts)
15. And when they have to cough up $3000 at once
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 08:06 PM
Nov 2018

They will not be happy campers.
If they did not vote the right way this year we might have a major blowout in 2020.

ooky

(8,885 posts)
12. Especially when they see their personal exemptions have vanished. That's when some of them
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 07:51 PM
Nov 2018

will go into shock. Because whenever Republicans and Trump boast about their doubling of the standard deduction they never mention they axed the personal exemptions.

Just like when they talk about health care and how they support keeping pre-existing conditions protection they neglect to say anything about them allowing insurance to raise the cost for it.

Just little minor details that always seem to slip their mind.

BamaRefugee

(3,476 posts)
18. And when they find they have been put in a different tax bracket and have to PAY UP THE DIFFERENCE!
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 09:13 PM
Nov 2018

kimbutgar

(20,871 posts)
16. Just like in the 2014 election when the day after the repukes won you never heard about an Ebola
Mon Nov 5, 2018, 08:59 PM
Nov 2018

Again. Days before you’d think it was going to be a massive outbreak in this country then nothing was said the day after the election.

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