[Rhodes22-list] Reduce your federal income tax (political humor)

[Brad Haslett]

Dave,

You are correct, there are a lot of people who operate below the scan of the
radar and they beg off social services.  They are not all illegals, most are
bona fide US citizens sucking off society.  They come from every color in
the United States crayon box.  You come up with the solution!  You can add
more colors, or flavors to the box, or you can blow up the box, it doesn't
matter.  There is work to be done and these 'browns', or 'cimmorons' or
whatever the PC color of the day is, are willing to take on the coloring
book and keep it between the lines.  Stan said it very well, these people
seem to instinctively know where to drill the hole.  Or, at least not drill
the hole where you tell them specifically not to.

Folks!  The life that is being sucked out of your livelihood is not their
doing!  No, let me rephrase that.  You are blowing the life out of your
livelihood!  Buy a mirror!

Brad


On 6/29/06, DCLewis1 at aol.com <DCLewis1 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> Brad,
>
> I think you and I are in total agreement except the part about claiming an
> expense for labor costs.  If you need to claim an expense your right, but
> I
> think there are a variety of contractors out there that don't
> claim  expenses,
> or even income.  They make a bid, they do the job, and  it's over.  Not
> claiming expenses and not paying taxes helps them with  a low bid.  This
> will not
> work in a formal contracting environment  where your costs are reviewed
> and
> audited - but in a small business personal  business/personal services
> environment
> I suspect it works great. Common  examples:
>
> - A guy shows up at your door and wants $500 to take some trees down - he
> hires a few guys for the day, takes your $500, pays his laborers, and
> pockets
> the difference.  The guy claims nothing to no one.
>
> - You pay your maid to clean (if you have a maid), do you think she's
> reporting that income?   Do you claim an expense?  Does she claim  income?
> Is she
> paying taxes on that money?  What do you think?   Could she handle the
> paperwork
> to figure out how to pay taxes on that  money?  Does she want to part with
> the $?
>
> - You contract to have your house remodeled, the last step is to gather up
> the debris and haul it all away.  The contractor goes to the local 7/11
> hangout, hires 3 guys to load the truck, does he claim the expense?  Do
> the  guys
> claim  that income?  Would the guys know how to handle the  paperwork to
> declare
> that income?  Or does the contractor just pay the bill  from other funds
> and
> forget it?
>
> What I'm describing is the cash, or underground, economy.  In
> the  aggregate
> it's big.  I think it's widely populated  by relatively unskilled manual
> laborers who can't (for example because they  are illegal)  get into the
> formal
> labor market that  will provide them with some benefits (workmans comp,
> unemployment  ins, Soc Sec,  etc).  Instead these guys, and gals, live
> outside  the
> formal labor market and rely on social services  that are paid for  by
> everyone
> else.
>
> Note:  Nothing in the above would characterize the workers as lazy,
> undesirable, etc.  They are hard working, conscientious, etc, or
> they  wouldn't be
> hired.  They may be fine people, I'm sure many/most are.   But they are a
> burden
> to the rest of the community because they use  services they don't
> remotely
> begin to pay for (e.g. schools, emergency  rooms, ....).
>
> Dave
>
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