Gubmint - Sometimes you gotta Luv It

[Werewolf]

Yeeeehah!
Income tax refund - bitch and complain about the gubmint takin' too much all year but every now and then it works out.

This year I got back a bundle (E'file - ahhh the wonders of the information age - ain't it great?). Enough to buy me a new Bushmaster A2 version (I pick it up tomorrow) and either a Sig 220 or an H&K USP45 Expert and still have a bunch left over to put into my retirement account.

Help me out on the pistol - the Sig or the H&K - I'm leaning towards the H&K Expert but I've never had a Sig and have always read and heard good things about them. The Expert might be too big for carry - opinions; on the other hand it would be great for IPSC (probably better than the Glock 22 I currently use).

Will buy tomorrow - will shoot on Sunday. Damn - feels like Christmas when I was 12!

 

[OF]

That refund was, of course, your money all along that they just kept for you...interest free of course...and then returned to you.

Still fun to get a check in the mail though!

- Gabe

 

[atek3]

ya, i just love robbers who occationally throw me a frigging bone if I was shaken down "too hard" some years.

atek3

 

[BHPshooter]

Gotta love it?

No, I don't love it a bit. They took $1,100 from me last year (ME! A starving college student! I made less than $7,000 last year! ) and gave me back $140.

Gee, thanks.

No, I don't love it. Not a bit.

Wes

 

[Werewolf]

Hey guys! I know where yer coming from. I'm a financial analyst by trade and giving the Feds a tax free loan irks me too.

Unfortunately the system is rigged - the gubmint wants us to get refunds - that way the average folk doesn't really understand that he's paying taxes. Ask 'em most think if they get a check back that they aren't. AND that always amazes me.

I pretty much set my withholding up so that just enough comes out and I still owe a couple hundred at the end of the year - that way the feds don't get a tax free loan on an overpayment. This year though because of a number of bonuses where withholding is calculated different I got a bunch back.

Now I'm gonna spend it in a way that the gubmint in general doesn't really like. I"M GONNA BUY GUNS!

Now about that Sig 220 or H&K USP45 Expert - which one?

 

[Michigander]

It has always interested me how some people will say things like:

"Wow, I got a $XXXX refund this year. That's even better than my $XX00 refund last year!"

Yet they do not even have a clue as to how much they actually paid in taxes. :banghead:

When the government come up with the holding-in-advance thing, they really struck gold, financially and psychologically!

 

[Treylis]

When I was younger and first learned about the evils of the income tax, the very first thing that sprang out of my mouth was: "So you're not getting any interest on that 'loan' the feds are making you give them?"

Gah. The 16th Amendment isn't exactly a shining star of the Constitution... and don't even get me started on Social Security.

 

[SMLE]

The inequity of the tax laws aside. Get the Sig. I have handled both the Sig and H&K and the Sig just looks and feels better.

 

[RGO]

When the government come up with the holding-in-advance thing, they really struck gold, financially and psychologically!

I believe tax withholding came about in World War II as a "temporary" war time thing.

 

[OEF_VET]

Ahhh, the joys of income tax season.

This year I got back every penny I loaned the .gov, interest free of course. You've got to love being able to deduct tuition from your taxable income. That and having more than half of your income being non-taxable.

What did I do with the money? I'm buying a Remington 700 PSS with Leupold optics and accessories from kthkm53.

As for the SiG / H&K quandry, hmm, I'm not really a fan of either. So, after the appropriate toss of a coin, I vote H&K.

Frank

 

[Bill Hook]

I OWE $68, which doesn't make me happy, but it's better, on principle, than getting my own money back.

I paid enough taxes this year to buy another car, albeit a fairly cheap one.

 

[ARperson]

Don't forget that your tax refund is considered income and next year you have to pay taxes on that...at least in Indiana you do.

The best way is to not owe anything or have to pay a smidge. That way all your income was yours to use as you saw fit. Pay the .gov later.

 

[LiquidTension]

Taxes? You guys pay those things? I don't even get a pay stub since I just tell my boss how much he owes me - no taxes taken out.

All kidding aside, I do file 1099. While it sucks to have to give the govt bastids money when everyone else is getting it back, I take the ideological High Road by not giving them an interest free loan. You know, the kind of loan that none of us can get