If I work shovelling **** for low pay I pay tax.

If I get paid for being the son of I should pay no tax?

All your income has been taxed before. My employers customers have paid tax, the firm pays tax, I pay tax.

An inheritance is really just income for being who you are, related to someone who is paying you for being related. To be honest I'd rather the **** shoveller got the tax break at least he is doing something useful.

So piracy and extortion by terror pays the bills, great.

If you didn't read why bother replying?

For just the cost of a cup of coffee, people like you can stop the most powerful military in history.

No, seriously though...


National Defense Authorization Act


Funding terrorists or anything that has >.0001% chance of being construed as it, bad idea.

That's interesting. It might follow that the willingness to pay taxes is directly related to the perception of freedom and democracy. That's supported from what I've read by overall attitudes in high tax Scandinavian countries. Even in this thread it seems pretty easy to see how at least anecdotally the attitudes of posters from more moderate, social welfare oriented democracies seems to diverge from the Muricans.

i always love to hear the responses from randoms that i dont pay any tax. it helps show who the truly spiteful people are. yes i feel like they are stealing from me, exactly. i prefer my charade of appearing to be absolutely dirt poor.

"oh oh i hope you get caught!" and i just laugh and laugh because thats how bad our system is.

I bet you would be wrong, you ignorant ****.

Fair point. I'll take your post more seriously. The trouble with your links in the context of this debate is that they show that the choice is tax OR being stolen from.

The stuff on live animal exports and the khat trade is interesting but there is no secret about how they transport goods across the different areas controlled by armed militias or terrorists, they pay them bribes or tithes and they let them through.

The result is trade being skimmed by terrorist gangs. A huge protection racket with armed gangs replacing the role of the state in many areas. Mexican drug cartels have some pretty efficient logistics too, they make billions and they duck their taxes. Such efficiency in extracting money from trade for the head of an armed gang is still terrible when like in Somalia that armed gang is built around a tribe that gets a cut of the stolen money.

I'm surprised how few Americans get this. Lots of REC's don't realize they are not playing enough volume to overcome yearly variance. It's even worse for Roulette gamblers who are actually losing anyway.

Hi, I have some tax questions and I don't know where to post.
I won a smaller tournament ($250bi) in 2,014 where first place paid $5,200 in which they issued me a W2 that day in person.
I've also made a few more tournament cashes the highest being $1200, but none issued me a W2.
I have not received anything in the mail.
My total tournament earning last year were $8,342 and I live in Florida.
I have kept all of the tournament buy in receipts and they total over a few thousand.
I have also kept many atm receipts from bad cash game sessions where I lost most.

I am married filing jointly and my wife only makes around $15k a year.
Not sure what to do, how much would I have to pay ?
Should I declare myself as a professional gambler ?
Any advice would be highly appreciated.
Thanks

All you need to know is in the US Taxes Sticky in the Poker Legislation forum.

I'm glad you kept all your receipts, so that you're not being overtaxed on those marginal winnings. According to your description you're an active REC that has done fine and it would be just fair if you paid no taxes at all, so that the $ stay in the poker economy - but that's just never going to happen