Halo is Back
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Don't lie, you were all like this when you got your first paycheck lol
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Kid learns the meaning of income taxes in his first paycheck
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Halo is Back
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Yea, but you don't get state back. He is lucky he didn't get state taxes like I did on my first paycheck. I still get people who tell me they owe money during tax season. Never had that problem so far.
MastAndo
Member
On a related note, it's pretty outrageous how unprepared the education system leaves our youngins when it comes to stuff like this. I mean, I know most kids aren't going to learn much in high school either way, but a personal finance/financial literacy course should be mandatory in any sort of curriculum, but it isn't - at least it wasn't when I was being fed one BS course after another in high school or as mandatory core courses in college before declaring my major. It was mostly just loads of inconsequential nonsense.
Halo is Back
Member
Did you miss high school? Because we learned none of that
But yea I agree. It should be taught
Pagusas
Elden Member
Did you miss high school? Because we learned none of that
But yea I agree. It should be taught
I grew up in an Air Force family, my folks did a great job teaching me all of that wayyyy before high school. But yeah, so many dumbasses don’t take the time to learn, then get out on their own and drown
Halo is Back
Member
Sounds like you had good parents. I think the military is a good place for people who are lost in life and opportunities.
Super Mario
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The only education most people get on this is that other people somewhere need to pay more. You can also be noble and say you would gladly pay more to help others, but not really mean it.
The real education is self-taught and then most people tend to become more conservative
Pagusas
Elden Member
The military and NASA have been great for my family. I‘m actually the first of my family NOT to go that route, instead went to college and have a successful degree. But yes, the military is a great place for people who cant get a footing in life and need direction/orders/duty to opperate at their best.
sonomamashine
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He's just confused, he's been told lies hes whole life, he thought only thiefs/rappers/thugs allowed to exercise that finessing practices.
Davey Cakes
Member
When I had my first job at 16 I had taxes, Medicare, social security, and retirement all taken out of my check. I wondered how much of any of that I’d get back. Well, other than the retirement which I cashed out and which was also taxed (of course).
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Halo is Back
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Believe it or not I had a democrat tell me that raising taxes HELPS the economy grow
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
This is beautiful. I have had my soul crushed like that too Jojo.
V4skunk
Banned
It's just to pay for the gimmegrants and job shy wasters.Believe it or not I had a democrat tell me that raising taxes HELPS the economy grow
levyjl1988
Banned
Life is like a video game, except the game that you are playing is Dark Souls. Life is going to keep shutting you down over and over and over. Then there becomes a point where everything clicks, you become a masochist and you become the invader.
quickwhips
Member
The dad laughing is a dick. Should prepare your kids better.
TrainedRage
Banned
Life comes at you fast. I want to see the video where he gets it all back in a return check with Donald Trumps name on it. He will be like, "what??? I love Trump"!!!!
Tesseract
Banned
oh come on, it's pretty funny
His dad is honest, and this is called parenting. Notice the other boys knew their shit, because they had gone through it before.
This is how you teach your kids. Real fucking life. Life hits you and your parents should be there to guide you. Not shield you from it or lie to you.
The number of young adults I knew who didn't understand Jack shit about taxes, even after college is staggering.
The Hamburglar
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What broke ass job is he working for 250 dollars a month
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Pagusas
Elden Member
A month? I thought that was a week.
Hulk_Smash
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It is not the job of the education system to teach your kid about personal finances. That job falls on the parents. What? You want the cafeteria lady to teach them how to cook, too? And before you say “home ec!” I took home ec. It was a fucking joke class that I aced and learned nothing that my parents didn’t already teach me.
As far as this video goes, I’ll give the dad some slack since he could’ve tried to tell his son about it and his son needed to see it to believe it. I felt the same way with my first check.
Also, the paycheck withholding system is fraudulent and needs to be overturned by an act of Congress.
As far as this video goes, I’ll give the dad some slack since he could’ve tried to tell his son about it and his son needed to see it to believe it. I felt the same way with my first check.
Also, the paycheck withholding system is fraudulent and needs to be overturned by an act of Congress.
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triplestation
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quickwhips
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I don’t know posting you kid don’t know shit and laughing about it isn’t my cup of tea.
Tesseract
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Halo is Back
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This is pretty light hearted. It's not like the kid objected to it or anything. This is a really innocent video, otherwise I wouldn't have shared it. No one is making fun of him anyways because we can all relate to his feelings in some way.
Grinchy
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lol yep, taxes are a bitch
I got my first job as a bagger in a groery store when I was 14. Literally the moment I could legally work, I got the one job that would hire a 14 year old in my area because I was tired of waiting for birthdays and christmas for things that I could just buy myself. When making $5.05 per hour, it sucked watching any of it go away to taxes even if I did get a lot back at the end of the year lol
I got my first job as a bagger in a groery store when I was 14. Literally the moment I could legally work, I got the one job that would hire a 14 year old in my area because I was tired of waiting for birthdays and christmas for things that I could just buy myself. When making $5.05 per hour, it sucked watching any of it go away to taxes even if I did get a lot back at the end of the year lol
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I just cut the feds a check for $4,800 little man, just you wait.
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Foamy
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Hell I've seen deductions as high as 2400 for a week and makes me want to cry too.
Apparently this is child abuse
HoodWinked
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ya i think he's just upset that it was so little not that it was specifically the taxes. he probably thinks it would be way higher if he wasn't "finessed" but if he got the full 280 he'd probably react the same way. 280 vs ~250 is hardly a difference.
Goro Majima
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He’s not even paying for health insurance or retirement yet.
I got a second dose of this when I got that first “real job” after college because of those two things.
I got a second dose of this when I got that first “real job” after college because of those two things.
West Texas CEO
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this kid will be selling weed in two weeks
The deal only gets worse from this point on for that kid, as it does for us all.
If you didn’t feel like robbing banks as a kid, you’ll start to fantasize about it at least once as an adult.
I’m just waiting to be called up by some genius professor for the heist of the century.
If you didn’t feel like robbing banks as a kid, you’ll start to fantasize about it at least once as an adult.
I’m just waiting to be called up by some genius professor for the heist of the century.
Mistershine.
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What does social security pay for in the US? In the UK it technically pays for health care and unemployment benefit if you end up out of work.
SurprisedPikachu
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If you did that you’d have a lot my Republicans. You know, the people who want less federal government and understand that taxation is theft.. cant have people realize how much they’re fucking us so gotta keep them out of the loop.
Herr Edgy
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It's not even about sustaining the poor. It's to sustain the very infrastructure you and your company are using every day to live a proper life and 'earn that money' in the first place.
'Taxation is theft' my ass.
Aside from stupid spending of course, like, what, a trillion $ for military?
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