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Post by refurb » Sun, Apr 28, 2024, 2:16 AM UTC

throwup238 wrote: post #132

nox101 wrote: post #118

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> It’s amazing that 54% of adults in the United States have a literacy below 6th grade level, AFAICT this is a mis-interpretation. IIUC the actual study says "54% of adults in the United States have a literacy IN ENGLISH below 6th grade level". They might be highly literate in some other language but that wasn't tested.

Only 14% of the US is foreign born according to the last census so that’s not enough to make up the difference. The functional literacy statistics are bad no matter how you dice them.

Post by refurb » Sun, Apr 28, 2024, 2:20 AM UTC

asadotzler wrote: post #124

LoganDark wrote: post #57

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> if your family makes under $60k you are almost certainly paying no income taxes How is this possible? Where I live, you can expect to pay around 30% of your income as tax almost regardless of how much money you actually make (as long as it's above something like $600 a year).

Yes. If you and your spouse both make minimum wage and not a cent more, and you have two children or more, you can come out about even. How many two child families do you know with both parents earning absolute minimum wage?

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 28, 2024, 2:44 AM UTC

static_motion wrote: post #143

nkrisc wrote: post #24

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It’s amazing how much of an idiot I felt like when we hired a babysitter for two days a week for about a year and then it came time to do things properly regarding taxes and her wages. I understand why it’s important to do it properly (for the employee’s benefit) but when I tried to look into what we had to do, as technically her employer, and it was nearly impossible for me to figure out what we had to do and then h…

Non-US citizen here: you have to declare what you paid the nanny to the IRS? Where I'm from, only the receiving end of the money needs to declare how much they earned. The only reason we file expenses is for tax deductions. The US tax system has always seemed so hostilely complex to me.

Post by throwaway5959 » Sun, Apr 28, 2024, 2:50 AM UTC

tmountain wrote: post #8

It’s amazing that 54% of adults in the United States have a literacy below 6th grade level, but it is expected for the same population to have the financial literacy to file their taxes accurately. Going further, the IRS already knows the details of most people’s taxes before they file, yet everyone is expected to complete what amounts to a complex task for many people. I cannot fathom why it is still done this way.

Post by ImJamal » Sun, Apr 28, 2024, 2:53 AM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #135

bedobi wrote: post #63

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Uh plenty of Sweden see that as a huge invasion of privacy Sweden also doesn’t have secret ballot In Sweden, anyone can look up your address, phone number, social security number, your car registration etc etc This is not cool or desirable

If you own property in the US, I can look up your address, your landline if you still have one, probably not that hard to find SSN, etc.