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Workin4aLivin
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Exxon's 2007 Tax Bill: $30 Billion
Not "owed", rather "still owe." Most of the bill was already paid. $800 is what we STILL owe. No one's paying for us; we're taking care of ourselves.
What kills me is the handouts that lenders, and soon, house-flipping speculators are getting. What ever happened to all that helpful conservative advise I always get: "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps!" HA! That argument only works until the shoe's on the other foot, and then conservative capitalists run to mommy government just as quickly as the populist liberal.
BTW. Nice comment about "no marketable skills." I have a 4-year degree and currently work full time in web design and marketing. My husband has a 2-year and works with disabled children. But hey, if it makes you feel better to think that we're just poor dumb gas-station workers, you go right ahead. (If I had it to do over again, I'd rather have my $40,000 back than have a degree. Everything I do at work was self-taught anyway.)
I don't really care if corporate taxes or capital gains goes up or down. So many other thing factor into the national debt that I also can't control so it doesn't matter. Some day, something major will change (flat tax, VAT tax, etc.), until then, I'll just deal with the way the wind blows.
I just wish the working-poor/lower-mid... could get some friggin' respect! I'm not askin' for a break, or for pity, or for a hand-out (and we've gotten none)... we're gonna do just fine 'cause we know how to make due with less than you poor SOBs up there on the hill with up-side-down mortgages.
I'm paying a midwife $3000 bucks cash so I can have my kid at home, then I'm gonna' strap that little sucker to my back, head back to the office, and flop a breast out when he squalls. That's the determination and Yankee thrift that built America, and that's what'll build it again when the bankers are done with it.
Just remember, it wasn't the farmers and workers throwing themselves out of windows on Wall Street during the Great Depression, it was those who were "kings in their own eyes" and couldn't take the humbling.
Exxon's 2007 Tax Bill: $30 Billion
My husband still owes $800 of $1600 in federal takes from 3 years ago when he made $19,000. This year, we made a combined income of $40,000 and have a baby on the way. I won't be surprised if we end up owing again an have to use our "stimulus package" check just to call off the IRS attack dogs. I just don't understand how a federal government can ask so much of us when a family of 3 is going to live in a crappy basement apartment without health insurance. I'm going to try having my baby out of the hospital to save the money to pay uncle same.