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Originally Posted by griffonwing
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I, on the other hand, am in the bracket that they [the IRS/taxes, from context] take the most out of. The single
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I'm surprised. I had heard there was a "marriage penalty" in US taxes (though apparently only for a few couples with unusual earning/expense situations: I do the taxes for our family and we don't pay any more for being married). I had never heard there was a penalty for being single, though.
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Originally Posted by griffonwing
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I certainly hadn't heard that your race made a difference to how much taxes you pay. If that's correct, I think it's monstrously unfair!
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I also hadn't heard that your gender makes a difference in how much taxes you pay. If that is correct, I think *that* is monstrously unfair too.
I had, however, always been under the impression that how much you paid had to do with how much you earned and how much of what type of expenses you'd had and that sort of thing.
For my own part, I don't mind paying taxes. There's always a twinge when I look at the bottom line and see how much it was, but then I think about the roads I drive on, the nice people at the firehouse who need gas for their trucks and hoses that don't leak so they can put my house out if it ever catches fire, the garbage and recycling service that comes by every week, the library, and the schools, and I realize that taxes are how I buy civilization.
That said, I see nothing wrong with buying an e-book reader with your tax refund. It's what I did with part of ours last year. I hope you enjoy your purchase as much as I have mine.