because of the budget surplus largely due to covid funds not spent. doesn't matter if you paid a million dollars or zero, sounds fair
so, the state of Indiana is sending everyone who filed a tax return in 2020, 125 dollars
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I’d prefer they keep mine and fix the roads. My commute is treacherous these days. Like driving through Baghdad.
I believe the rebate is required by statute once the surplus reaches a certain level. I also believe that a bug chunk of it (that's not being sent back to taxpayers) will be applied to pay down bond debts or maybe shore up pension funds or something of that nature (but don't hold me to that). Perfectly acceptable use for "windfall" money, as opposed to dumping it into the general fund.
I'd much rather see these one time rebates/expenditures than the tax cut nuts using it as an excuse to cut tax rates, setting us up for budget crunches on down the line.
should the money be sent back as a percentage to those who paid taxes, is what I was questioning. we don't make everyone pay the same amount of tax
That would mean poor bastards like me would get $4.50 and high rolling lawyers like @TheOriginalHappyGoat with get thousands. Fvck that shit.
ok, seems like bunch of crap to me, but I just got my taxes done today along with having my property tax statement come in , not a happy tax payer today
I take it you didn't get the Earned Income Tax Credit?
I wish I could find it but somebody was posting pictures of potholes on Craig's List or something similar as rental opportunities with full on listings of square feet, bed/baths, amenities. Hilarious.
I assume the only truly happy tax payer is the one forking over the taxes after a lottery payout.
And they should. No one should want to pay for Pete's staycation and all the BS. The irony is all we pay in and the roads are still a mess. The most basic shit.
To hijack this, sort of, I was reading Chris Pronger's tweets about NHL pay. Crazy how much they get whacked. 10 percent right off the top for escrow to the league. Agents. Taxes. On and on.
Repairing the roads falls to the states and cities. So what does Pete have to do with that.
The biggest single problem with potholes is that it is spring and it is the freeze/thaw cycle that creates most potholes. Indiana just fired up its hot asphalt plant in late February. Since then it has been chilly and rainy. Neither conducive to good road repair. I don't know about Missouri.
But the new infrastructure bill did allow for this:
Of course it does. I meant in general. Pissing away tax money. Not a well thought out post
