I love my job at Bel Air. I get paid very well, I'm guaranteed a raise, guaranteed hours, guaranteed benefits, and I get discounts. I'm really fortunate to have this job, as many other students my age are having an even harder time making minimum wage.
We all know that feeling of excitement when we get our paycheck and eagerly rip open the envelope to see what awaits us inside as a "reward" for the hours we put into our work. That feeling immediately gets sunk as soon as we see the taxes that are taken out of our paycheck each pay period.
I get my paycheck every Friday, and I pay about $50 a paycheck in taxes for the 24 hours I worked that week. So with all the taxes taken out of my paycheck, I basically work 5 1/2 hours a week just for the government. You can also think of it this way: The government took $50 from my paycheck and gave it to someone else on UI, SSI, TANF, WIC or whatever welfare program.
It's gonna be hard working 4 more years in an Obama economy where I am paying 20% of my income in taxes. At least the Romney-Ryan ticket plans to cut my tax rate back to 16%. In other words, Romney is proposing a 20% across the board cut in everyone's marginal tax rate, similar to the 25% cut made by President Reagan in the '80s. Barack Obama, however, only wants to raise taxes for the top earners. So where does that leave students and other youth like myself who are just scraping by at the bottom? Obama has no intention whatsoever of cutting our tax rates. He doesn't care about a tax break for me or other hard working Americans. He doesn't care about students. He doesn't care about us youth who are trying to get our feet off the ground and make an honest dollar. Thanks to the president, it's gonna be a while before I can afford to move out of my parents' house and start my life on my own (that is, if he's re-elected).
However, if Romney is elected and Congress passes his tax cut proposals, that's $10 more a paycheck that I'm keeping, investing, or saving. So multiply 52 weeks in a year by $10 and that's $520 more a year I'm keeping under a Romney administration. That might not seem like much money, but for a student like myself, $520 a year is a big deal. That's 2-weeks-worth of pay for me.
If you like those taxes that you see coming out of YOUR hard-earned paycheck, I suggest you re-elect Barack Obama.
If you want REAL change and REAL reform, and you want to keep more of YOUR hard-earned paycheck, then I urge you to support Mitt Romney for President.
Don't miss out on the money you COULD be making! Vote Republican this November!
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lives in Citrus Heights and is a recent graduate of in Carmichael. Palomo will attend the University of California, Davis in the fall.
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"Republicans did this.... Liberals did that... You are evil... I am not" Listen to you two! The solution nicholas... since you don't want people to respond without saying a solution, it not to put an R next to your name (or a D for that matter). Once we start to realize that both sides have good ideas and both sides have bad ideas then we can make progress. Nothing is going to be "fixed" if we just have a two party system blaming each other for EVERYTHING!! Look at each political ad from both sides: Both say they they want to get America working "again". Both say they want to reform heath care. Both say they want to increase education. ** if we go back to each election in the past the politicans say the EXACT SAME THING. Look at youtube...
This is a bold face lie. In 2010, the Feds spent over $663.7 billion on defense. That same year, the Feds spent about $59 billion on Welfare. In the same year, Corporate Subsidies were about $92 billion. So, Nicholas, who got more of tax dollars that year? Corporations. They got hand outs of your $520 bucks. We can have this conversation, but when you tell me to go vote for Mittens Romney and his "policy" man, Paul Ryan, is supposedly a "budget hawk" but has no interest in cutting DEFENSE SPENDING, whatsoever, he is actually no budget hawk at all, but a LIAR. Talking about cutting the budget and deficit without talking about cutting defense spending is like the health inspector talking about healthy and safe restaurants overlooking the dead chickens in the window of the Chinese restauarant. It's irresponsible and it's a lie. When George W. Bush inherited the thrown of the white house from the Supreme Court in the case of Bush V. Gore, we had a government Surplus. 4 years later, after massive "GOVERNMENT SPENDING" buy your "small government" Republican party we were in the RED. It's all lies, Nicholas. Just like what you wrote.
What I meant about my tax money being spent on entitlements was that basically whatever percentage of my tax dollars the feds spent in infrastructure, for example, was neutralized by their spending on entitlements. In regard to out soaring national debt, what ideas has Obama offered to bring it under control. He had 2009-2010 to fix whatever Bush had done wrong, and what'd he do? More spending. And now he's added more debt than Bush. What happened to the "change" he promised? Nothing changed. By the way, calling me a liar is not helping this debate. It's actually kinda immature and it's sad a "kid" like me has to tell you that. I mean I could call you "racist" for calling me a liar but what good would that do, you know?
On top of that, his net worth is estimated at $190–250 million, how can someone who is so removed from the average American, be held as the voice of our nation? Like previously stated, It's between the lesser of two evils.
John Kerry's net worth is almost that of Romney's and in 2012 dollars, JFK's net worth would be $1 billion. JFK wasn't half bad of a president and he was still able to connect with average Americans. Obama is rich too, just like Romney, maybe not as rich, but it's like comparing a 6 1/2 foot tall person with a 7 foot tall person. They're both tall by average person's standards, just as both Romney and Obama are rich by an average person's standards.
I never stated that Romney "pioneered outsourcing" and what relevance is Kerry's net worth? Or JFK's for that matter? We are talking about the two candidates presently up for office.
If those are your ideas as to how we'd fix this fiscal mess then that's fine. Everyone is entitled to an opinion. I just wanted to hear yours. I will point out, for example, that Obama extended the Bush-era tax cuts. I think if he truly believes what he says he does, he would have vetoed them out of principle. I agree that the wars do need to come to an end. We've been there way too long and the Iraqis stabbed us in the back. I think Karzai is doing the same thing. What should have happened is Bush Sr. should have gotten rid of Hussein in '92 and Clinton should have killed Bin Laden when he had the chance. 9/11 could have been prevented. Call me Nick, by the way, I don' t usually go by Nicholas.
And by the way, the same people who wanted to kill Americans when GWB was president still want to kill Americans even though Barack Obama is president. And they will still want to kill Americans when Mitt Romney is elected president in November and takes office next January. American Defense is MORAL and NECESSARY.
The Bush economy you reference from 2007 was actually the result of policies put in place by Bwarney Fwank and friends helping to put people into houses they could not afford. By the way, the Democrats controlled the House and Senate, ergo the Federal purse strings, in 2007. The Constititution defines the role of the Federal government as providing for defense, not welfare for either corporate or general populace benefit. Although I would point out that defense spending should be much more closely monitored for waste, spending should be increased and not decreased. Despite your uninformed denials of reality, Reagan's policies carried well beyond his terms in office. It was the result of these policies which gave Clinton his surpluses. In fact, Clinton had squandered those and the most booming economy America had ever seen and left Bush on the verge of a recession and potential depression given the real estate bubble his cohorts induced. Many have called for the Iraq war to be paid for with Iraq oil. Then you liberals would have a field day saying "See ... we told you it was only about the oil". I have a better one for you. Why is it that Obamination refuses to "drill here and drill now"? His plan for America is to bring her to her knees. That may be okay for liberal lemmings but not for me ...
If you believe ethanol and green energy subsidies should be eliminated do you also think that subsidies and tax breaks for oil companies should be eliminated?
People below the poverty line don't pay taxes. Middle class and rich people do.
Eliminating the difference between the tax on dividends and income. It should all be income including monies earned offshore and taxed accordingly........
The reason you are likely making min wage or close to it is because of Supply & Demand. Corporates like Mittens embraced the Oligarichal Communist Chinese and sent millions of manufacturing jobs over there, resulting in to many people chasing low wage jobs. Holy cow, Bill Kristol actually said something two weeks in a row on Fox News Sunday that I agree with -- we don't need to be lowering the corporate tax rates when these companies are sitting on hoards of cash already and are not hiring. Corporations have trillions of dollars. If the corporate tax rate is such a burden, how come they have all this money? They're not hiring. http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/bill-kristol-hits-republicans-again-saying Obama Releases $473 Million in Transport Funding to States http://www.joc.com/infrastructure/obama-makes-473-million-transport-funding-available-states
That said the Congress has been GOP/Tea Party since 2010 But we must always remember who creates jobs...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIhOXCgSunc Even Fox News Can't Swallow Ryan's BS Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/...#ixzz252i58pI5
23 million out of work welfare has gone from 30 million to 43 million gas has gone from 1.80 to 4,00 food has gone up this guy has played 107 rounds of golf makes beer for himself in the white house his wife takes a 4 day trip shopping in Spain for her and the kids and spends 500 K He has done 270 fund raisers at 200 K a flight so many flights that he had to add two more crews to his flight plan When he goes some were he takes two C-5 aircraft, two 747's and two C-17's At 200 K an hour Good lord let him give a guy that knows how to run a company a chance He has spent 4% of his time in office working on the budget Has never even run a 711 store and you can see it Just my humble opinion
23 million out of work welfare has gone from 30 million to 43 million gas has gone from 1.80 to 4,00 food has gone up this guy has played 107 rounds of golf makes beer for himself in the white house his wife takes a 4 day trip shopping in Spain for her and the kids and spends 500 K He has done 270 fund raisers at 200 K a flight so many flights that he had to add two more crews to his flight plan When he goes some were he takes two C-5 aircraft, two 747's and two C-17's At 200 K an hour Good lord let him give a guy that knows how to run a company a chance He has spent 4% of his time in office working on the budget Has never even run a 711 store and you can see it Just my humble opinion
Nicholas, the administration responsible for the meltdown of our financial sector is Republican. Ryan's budget seeks to cut billions from our domestic programs, while ADDING To our defense budget, which is at an alltime high. War is literally bankrupting this country. Additionally, though you and I have never experienced this kind of prejudice, VP Ryan sought earlier this year to redefine rape in favor of rapists, voted for legislation that allows ER docs to refuse to provide medically necessary EMERGENCY abortions to ill pregnant women, and consistently votes against Fair Pay Acts, ensuring men & women are paid equally. I think saving money is the right idea. Under Romney and Ryan who seek to end funding for Planned Parenthood, where nearly 1 in 5 women go to get medications, cancer screenings & reproductive healthcare, women are targets by leaders of the free world. Targeted economically, because birth control is essential in controlling your future. Targeted by intelligence - Romney & Ryan don't believe women capable of making their own decisions. And targeted on the most basic bodily levels. The best way to save money is to vote for the candidate getting us out of wars. As a human being, I can't imagine you condone attacking the economic well being of citizens based on their gender. Dig a little deeper into Romney & Ryan.