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(SmartMoney.com)   Professor withholds taxes every year to protest military spending. Which the IRS always takes anyway, plus fines. Which means he's paying MORE for military spending than he has to. Remember: He's a professor. He's smarter than you   (smartmoney.com) divider line
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The Stealth Hippopotamus
2007-03-29 5:34:36 PM  
Remember: He is in college, it's what happens it how you feel about it.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2007-03-29 5:45:46 PM  
The Stealth Hippopotamus: He is in college, it's what happens it how you feel about it.

"It's what happens it how you feel about it"?

I also here he are a English professor.
 
Saborlas [TotalFark]
2007-03-29 5:52:07 PM  
An advanced degree does not necessarily denote intelligence. Take a look at the graduates of Bob Jone4s University. Dumb as a sack of hammers and half as useful.
 
Saborlas [TotalFark]
2007-03-29 5:53:26 PM  
And the typo, for reasons that have yet to be adequately explained, renders my post invalid. Note to self: check spelling before disabling preview.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2007-03-29 6:31:58 PM  
Saborlas: And the typo, for reasons that have yet to be adequately explained, renders my post invalid. Note to self: check spelling before disabling preview.

Not sure if your post was invalid or not because I still can't figure out what you meant to say.
 
tomasso
2007-03-29 8:36:07 PM  
Well, I think it's pretty obvious he isn't a professor of math, finance, business, or economics.

Oh, the numbers, they make my head hurt. Read Lord Byron to me and make the pain go away.
 
Comrade438
2007-03-29 9:08:43 PM  
MyNameIsNotMervGriffin: Not sure if your post was invalid or not because I still can't figure out what you meant to say.

I'm confused me as well too very much so.
 
Lionel Mandrake
2007-03-29 9:23:00 PM  
The Stealth Hippopotamus: Remember: He is in college, it's what happens it how you feel about it.

Wow. You really showed him, genius.
 
vsync
2007-03-29 9:30:34 PM  
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Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2007-03-29 10:30:39 PM  
Comrade438: I'm confused me as well too very much so.

So do you, have any idea what meant it than previous posed?
 
MasterThief
2007-03-29 11:09:14 PM  
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Im in ur paychex
garnishing ur wagez

/Im also in ur inglish
//fuxing ur grammer
 
AuntNotAnt
2007-03-29 11:13:35 PM  
You don't get it. You're supposed to go to jail, then live in a cabin in the woods, with your mother's house three miles away.
 
vwfst55
2007-03-29 11:19:59 PM  
Why doesn't he just leave the country, renounce his citizenship, and solve the two problems of him funding the military and us having hear about his dumbass.


/Where the heck was this Canada exodus?
 
LunaBlue
2007-03-29 11:23:21 PM  
Economics Philosophy 602 (thesis elective): Making a statement against the evil government or the sound of one nut bouncing.

/er, what?
 
cltbuilder
2007-03-29 11:23:40 PM  
Saborlas
And the typo, for reasons that have yet to be adequately explained, renders my post invalid.

You could aways claim not to recall typing the post in this manner. Even though we have the post there in front of us to prove that you did. At that point, you would either need to provide a strawman defense or perhaps an executive privelige memo espousing the need for independence among those of us who were supposed to have advised you, truthfully, without fear of reprisal. We would then have to subpoena you only after you've contacted a mod to delete the post and erase any evidence that it ever existed.

In the end, you would be able to claim that we are misremembering and the entire thing has been nothing more than a witch hunt to provide a show trial. For the next 7 years, your name will be invoked everyday for many inexplicable reasons to give relevancy to an argument that has no merit. Is that what you want?
 
TechnoHead
2007-03-29 11:37:23 PM  
Ah, the joys of overeducation.

/asshat!
 
All Apologies
2007-03-29 11:37:29 PM  
Smarter the the subby probably, definitely not smarmier.
 
Korovyov
2007-03-29 11:56:52 PM  
Remember: He is in college, it's not what happens, it's how you feel about it.

At least, that's how I'd mark up that up were I an editor.
 
Korovyov
2007-03-29 11:57:29 PM  
And of course, I forget to change a comma to a semicolon...
 
All Apologies
2007-03-29 11:58:09 PM  
the the?

Rugby practise makes you light headed apparently.
 
Mad Tea Party
2007-03-29 11:59:31 PM  
The Stealth Hippopotamus: Remember: He is in college, it's what happens it how you feel about it.

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spelunking_defenestrator
2007-03-30 12:16:49 AM  
...so the a men could stand up...
 
All Apologies
2007-03-30 12:17:34 AM  
I love seeing that machine, I know it's stashed away, somewhere at home.
 
milk_plus
2007-03-30 12:23:07 AM  
Ha, jokes on him. Our children and grandchildren are going to pay for most of the current military spending and our most recent adventures adventures. Suckers.
 
Deneb81
2007-03-30 12:23:34 AM  
Of course, remember how much it costs to actually enforce the tax code. You're dealing with a bureaucracy. The enforcement probably costs the government at least as much as it gets in interest.

And then of course you have the issue of putting your money where your mouth is, a concept which seems foreign to many of us in the U.S. today.
 
Riotcow
2007-03-30 12:32:22 AM  
He got on the news. There you go.
 
clifton
2007-03-30 12:51:04 AM  
Remember: He's a professor. He's smarter than you

Professors can be idiots, but I'd take a word over one than any country bumpkin anyday.
 
Aesop_Rockets
2007-03-30 12:51:32 AM  
Is our professors learning?

/Seriously, if he doesn't mind paying extra for his principles, good on him.
 
destitute college kid
2007-03-30 12:53:50 AM  
but I'd take a word over one than any country bumpkin anyday.

Has everyone just lost ability the speak to english in this thread?

/agrees that Clifton's post if the professor
 
IamSpartacus
2007-03-30 12:59:28 AM  
Why cant he deliniate his taxes away from war spending?

I know you cant deliniate taxes at all, but it does lead to a principle of why he cant use peace organizations as tax deductable.

Good principles even if it isnt an effective or loud protest.
 
clifton
2007-03-30 1:07:02 AM  
destitute college kid

I'm tired and working right now. :(

/woo, two more days until vacation
 
bigforearms
2007-03-30 1:44:27 AM  
Why doesn't he just leave the country, renounce his citizenship, and solve the two problems of him funding the military and us having hear about his dumbass.

He might be subject to tax for ten years or so anyway. The U.S. government doesn't like citizens renouncing their citizenship for tax purposes.

I know you cant deliniate taxes at all, but it does lead to a principle of why he cant use peace organizations as tax deductable.
Deductions aren't credits--they don't give you a dollar for dollar decrease in your taxes. He'd have to donate all of his income down to whatever the hell the non-taxed income spot is, and there may be limits on the amount of charitable deductions recognized.

So I guess if there are no other restrictions, he might be able to live at the subsistence level to avoid his taxes... might.
 
grinningdeamon
2007-03-30 2:29:03 AM  
Well this thread is chock full of irony.

/I are smarter than you
 
bigforearms
2007-03-30 2:38:07 AM  
Step 1: Write database that automatically flags under-paid tax returns. CHECK
Step 2: Add SQL query that runs off that checking for previous years of under paid tax returns.
Step 3: Fine the everloving shiat out of people who make a routine of doing it.
Step 4: Profit!
 
swahnhennessy
2007-03-30 4:47:34 AM  
This thread is freakin' cursed.

/reads what he wrote 10 times before adding comment
 
Aernis
2007-03-30 5:47:25 AM  
Damn educated people, why can't the population just be content with watching FoxNews for all their educational and personal news and choices???
 
zzrhardy
2007-03-30 8:29:12 AM  
Ethics, conscience and morals...

I dont have a single speck of any of them, but I won't lay the boot into someone who (perhaps) may.
 
pvd021
2007-03-30 12:25:55 PM  
You can't put a price on ethics. I guess some of you math whiz fail to see logic in that.
 
ToxicMunkee
2007-03-30 2:30:05 PM  
I have a friend whose father is a professor. He's one of the most insufferably irritating men I've ever known. He's never wrong, and he'll go to great lengths to explain to you as condescendingly as he can how big of an idiot YOU are.

I could see him doing something like this. In fact, I'm surprised he hasn't done so already.
 
takesgut
2007-03-30 2:54:36 PM  
Hello all, I do agree with the professor. If you do not support the war then you should not pay "that" portion of taxes. And then we can all stay calmly here at home and do something else with our lives.
I'd vote him for president!!!
 
Chris Barr
2007-03-30 7:31:42 PM  
vwfst55
Why doesn't he just leave the country, renounce his citizenship, and solve the two problems of him funding the military and us having hear about his dumbass.

Seriously, couldn't he move to Switzerland so he knows that his money isn't going to the military, but the taxes are higher.

But really, this guy is on to something. I mean, why can't we all decide exactly where our taxes are going? I mean, I didn't elect 3 federal representatives and at least as many state and local officials (depending on where you live) to look at my miniscule contribution to the entire tax revenues and decide where it goes. Thats my job, jerks.

Tax dodgers, freeloaders, and asshats, thats all they are. And what better way to "hide from the IRS" than to go on record in a newspaper. Hello Audit!
 
Nick15
2007-03-30 9:32:49 PM  
Chris Barr
But really, this guy is on to something. I mean, why can't we all decide exactly where our taxes are going?

Because if 300 million people decided to put several trillion dollars into the perverted arts, then we're screwed.
 
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