Rest iN peace, Mr. Jobs

[krw]

It is not an "opinion" that people do not have "rights", that the clearly do. Perhaps you need to bone up on the English language?

[Just Wondering]

Actually, the 3 month old would get in free.

[Larry Blanchard]

And once again you prove the adage "fools rush in ..." - SS benefits are only taxable if the recipients non-SS taxable income exceeds 25K. And only half are taxable until it exceeds 34K. The corresponding numbers for a married couple filing jointly are 32K and 44K.

The numbers are for 2010 taxes.

I'm going to quit responding to your posts. Time and time again I and others have corrected your errors of fact and you never change. I have to assume that you deliberately ignore the facts to generate controversy.

[Larry Blanchard]

Oh? Where in the constitution?

P.S. I wish you and others would learn to snip.

[Swingman]

^^

"If" is the mother of all dissembling qualifiers.

IOW, "SS benefits most certainly *ARE* taxable".

[Swingman]

Actually, the concept precedes the Constituion, in a little document called the Declaration of Independence:

"Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness ... " embodied therein by any reasonable determination.

[krw]

You need a civics lesson. The Constitution does not enumerate individual rights, rather limits government's power.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

If it's *NOT* there, it's the people's.

[Just Wondering]

The Constitution enumerates and limits government power, not individual rights. That's what the Bill of Rights says, specifically the 9th and

10th Amendments. Construing the Bill of Rights, the Supremes have repeatedly held that procreation is a fundamental right.

[Han]

Han wrote in news:Xns9F7E9CE52642Aikkezelf@

216.151.153.168:

The Social Security benefits you received in 2010 may be taxable. You should receive a Form SSA-1099 which will show the total amount of your benefits. The information provided on this statement along with the following seven facts from the IRS will help you determine whether or not your benefits are taxable.

How much ? if any ? of your Social Security benefits are taxable depends on your total income and marital status.

Generally, if Social Security benefits were your only income for 2010, your benefits are not taxable and you probably do not need to file a federal income tax return.

If you received income from other sources, your benefits will not be taxed unless your modified adjusted gross income is more than the base amount for your filing status.

Your taxable benefits and modified adjusted gross income are figured on a worksheet in the Form 1040A or Form 1040 Instruction booklet.

You can do the following quick computation to determine whether some of your benefits may be taxable: ? First, add one-half of the total Social Security benefits you received to all your other income, including any tax exempt interest and other exclusions from income. ? Then, compare this total to the base amount for your filing status. If the total is more than your base amount, some of your benefits may be taxable.

The 2010 base amounts are: ? $32,000 for married couples filing jointly. ? $25,000 for single, head of household, qualifying widow/widower with a dependent child, or married individuals filing separately who did not live with their spouses at any time during the year. ? $0 for married persons filing separately who lived together during the year.

[m II]

But he said he would stop responding to his posts!!! This definitely adds a lot of weight to the seriousness of this argument!

We need to take these emphasized statements seriously. If somebody states something incorrectly, here, woodworkers need to unite and don their white capes with face hoods for fear of just being viewed as a bunch of whittling hacks with no real life skills! These lifestyle threatening off-the-cuff comments cannot be tolerated and shouldn't be taken lightly.

Anybody have plans for a wooden cross?

IOW, "SS benefits most certainly *ARE* taxable".

[Ed Pawlowski]

Don't forget to check your state laws too. In CT, SS income is taxable, assuming you are in the taxable brackets.

[Han]

Ed Pawlowski wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Indeed, but we were dealing with federal income taxes, I thought.

[Bill]

You sure spend a lot of time and effort at trying to be a "trouble-maker". Either that or I don't have as good of a sense of humor (which is plausable).

[m II]

The trouble is already projected by many of the participants here. I just enjoy reflecting the same garbage.

You need a new nickname as that one has a bad reputation, big time, on Usenet. Your babysitting fits the description of the same kook.

You sure spend a lot of time and effort at trying to be a "trouble-maker". Either that or I don't have as good of a sense of humor (which is plausable).

[Bill]

But I thought you were past needing a babysitter. Was I mistaken?

[m II]

Then why are you performing this function?

We got Mikey putting in "Bullshit" every post and we got Bill trying to scold us into good behaviour.

Sounds like both sharing a keyboard with akula.

But I thought you were past needing a babysitter. Was I mistaken?

[J. Clarke]

They are? Care to tell us under what article this is covered?

[J. Clarke]

You have some cases to cite?

[J. Clarke]

Oh, now you want slave labor.

[J. Clarke]

Except that there are not men with guns dragging either the CEO or the orphan to the movies. Movies are elective, taxes are not.