Taxes

Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 4:25 pm

I have the rest of today to finish them. They're almost done.

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MrSelf · Post by **MrSelf** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 4:36 pm

Finished mine in Feb.

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 4:57 pm

Me too. I already have 2 checks for $1 each, one from the state and one from the treasury dept.

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 4:59 pm

I wish I had money to spend on things so I got a better tax break

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MrSelf · Post by **MrSelf** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 4:59 pm

Texas has no state income tax. Got my federal return for $407, much better than the $31 I got 2 years ago.

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:01 pm

I wish I had money to spend on things so I could get a better tax break

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:17 pm

We went to get ours done yesterday and I got about $340 back. Pretty good to consider I made 1,500 total last summer. My dad got a few grand and my mom got near a grand. Sometimes I love our goverment... when they don't get our money.

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MrSelf · Post by **MrSelf** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:31 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: We went to get ours done yesterday and I got about $340 back. Pretty good to consider I made 1,500 total last summer. My dad got a few grand and my mom got near a grand. Sometimes I love our goverment... when they don't get our money.

Wow, they must take out a lot of your money, but then again, Canada is liberal.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:36 pm

We do pay lot of taxes but usually it goes towards decent stuff... but after the sponsorship scandle, it really makes me wonder. Our Goverment is becoming americanized. (aka crooked)

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MrSelf · Post by **MrSelf** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:46 pm

No, they are just liberal; socialist tendencies. Nothing wrong with that, if that's what the people want. That's the beauty of the U.S., Vermont can have a socialist state with free healthcare and high taxes, while New Hampshire can have low taxes and high personal freedoms. Most countries only allow for one system, ours is suppose to allow for all according to it's states. All governments are corrupt, it's linked with the very idea of power, the trick throughout history has been inserting safeguards to prevent corruption and promote a just system.

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000 · Post by **000** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 10:38 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: We do pay lot of taxes but usually it goes towards decent stuff

Good citizen. Ignorance is bliss.

I am also like a mushroom. They keep me in the dark and feed me bullshit. Sounds like it's the same in Canada.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 12:30 am

Could be worse, could be going towards some war in some country that has nothing to do with us.

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Bookworm · Post by **Bookworm** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 12:33 am

I finally finished my taxes, and then I had to do wastingtime's taxes. That 1000 dollar per child Child Tax Credit sure is handy. Not only did it offset my entire tax obligation, but I'm getting back 1600 dollars of other people's money.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 11:30 am

That's always fun.

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000 · Post by **000** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 5:03 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: Could be worse, could be going towards some war in some country that has nothing to do with us.

Yea like the

spent getting this useful information.

Canadian Scientists from the University of Alberta give us this.

http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=88104

Not-so-cute children are more likely to be neglected by their parents -- at least that's what a researcher from the University of Alberta has found.

Andrew Herrell's original intention was to study safety in grocery stores, where children often suffer minor injuries. But the more he observed parents with youngsters in shopping carts, the more he noticed a pattern developing.

Herrell is the director of the population research lab in the university's sociology department. He and his study team found cute kids were more likely to be buckled into their grocery cart seat.

They also were kept closer to their parents and not allowed to wander more than three metres away.

Herrell and his team followed parents of children (between two and five years old) around 14 local supermarkets for 10 minutes each, and rated their looks on a scale of one to 10.

Herrell found that only 1.2 per cent of the least attractive kids were buckled into their cart seats, compared with 13.3 per cent of the most attractive kids.

Not-so-cute kids were also allowed to wander away more often than their cute cohorts.

He says most parents would be stunned by his findings and would also heartily deny them. But he adds that after conducting 426 observations, he has noticed a pattern.

"More attractive children were more likely hovered over and for the parent to keep some close contact with that attractive child," Herrell told CTV News. "What I think it means is in our society, attractiveness is an asset."

Herrell believes that parents are unwittingly acting out patterns of evolution seen throughout the animal world.

Humans have evolved to give the most attention to their children who are most likely to survive in our world and therefore to pass on genetic material.

Herrell says parents of ugly children are not any more likely to abuse their children; they are simply unaware that they are neglecting their children more than parents of other children do.

Aidan Kelly, a father of three in Edmonton, says he can't believe a child's looks could ever make a difference in how he or she is cared for.

"For someone to treat someone different because of their looks . . . I don't see how a parent could do that," he told CTV's Edmonton affiliate, CFRN News.

Harrell's findings didn't surprise Maryanne Fisher, a professor of psychology at Halifax's St. Mary's University, who says, "An unattractive person might not have the best genes, so you'd spend more time and effort to look after the people with good genes."

Great-grandfather Bill McConnell says there may be some truth to the controversial study's findings.

"We haven't had little kids for a long time," he said, "but I think if you visit families with kids, the cutest ones get all the attention.

With files from CFRN News' Sheldon Larmand and CTV's John Vennavally-Rao

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