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Do you understand the difference between deductions, credits and cuts? Nothing on that list is a tax, "cut".
Uh, no! Taxes aren't lower. The only way for a business to qualify for any of those tax breaks/deductions, is to spend more money. See the redundancy?
Taxes are only lower if the rate is cut.
Uh, no! Taxes aren't lower. The only way for a business to qualify for any of those tax breaks/deductions, is to spend more money. See the redundancy?
Taxes are only lower if the rate is cut.
If you get a break in general, that's a cut. You cannot define what constitutes that. Whether it is a credit, a lower rate, or a dedication, if it lowers overall burden, then it is a cut.
No, that would be a rate cut (which is a tax cut). You can cut taxes a lot of different ways, rate cuts are one of the options. Maybe if you would look **** up before you post it, you wouldn't be backed into these corners. Check it out:
Let me Google that for you: Obama cut taxes
It's right there, apdst. Not that hard.
No, taxes are lower if the person or business pays a lower percentage of their money in taxes. If I pay 10 % of my profit in taxes one year, then pay 9 % the next, the second year, I am paying less in taxes...I got a tax cut.
No...it's...not. They wouldn't call it a tax break/deduction, if it were an actual cut. Just don't work that way in the real world, bro.
WTF are you talking about, Obama just did call it a cut. Apdst, it's not that difficult. If your net tax burden in 2010 on $200,000 was 10%, and in 2011 your net tax burden on $200,000 was 9%, is that a tax cut?
*Edit: And what do you mean "they need to spend more" to get the break?
Right! And, that hasn't happened. :rofl
The tax rate, on net income, for small businesses--any business for that matter--hasn't been lowered since the Bush tax cuts kicked in. it's Obama that wants to remove those tax cuts, which will make taxes on all corporations, regardless of size, go...up.
BTW, there's no such thing as a, "net", tax burden.
Semantics are really kicking your butts on this one.
Tax breaks and tax deductions only kick in, if you spend money. Just like the veterans tax break. You have to actually hire a veteran and put him on the payroll, to qualify for that tax break. To do so, you would have to spend money.
You still haven't substantiated that in any way. :doh
You do realize that is how debates work, right?
I am trying to help you out since this is apparently flying over your head - which is why you are resorting to semantics instead of discussing numbers. I am still waiting for you to make a claim and back it up with facts - you know... a debate.
Yawn... hey great fact, adpst. Oh wait, you didn't substantiate ****.
Here is another case where apdst argues against sources far more reliable than he. Politifact rates it as true, apdst does not. Good thing apdst < Politifact no matter how you look at the situation. Apdst, if politifact ran an article about driving trucks and you disagreed with it, I would still trust politifact over you.
And, if a business has to spend money, to achieve that lower rate, it's not a tax cut.
I already have, my friend. The fact is, a tax cut and a tax break are two different animals.
Might as well go ahead and admit that you got this one wrong.
Even your source calls them breaks and deductions and not cuts.
The post enumerated 17 small business tax cuts and credits created or extended through legislation signed by Obama.
Eight of them were included in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (more commonly known as the economic stimulus bill), the Affordable Care Act (also known as the health care law), and the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (aka the HIRE Act). Among the cuts were the exclusion of up to 75 percent of capital gains on key small business investments; a tax credit for the cost of health insurance for small business employees and new tax credits for hiring Americans out of work for at least two months.
Another eight cuts came via the Small Business Jobs Act, signed by Obama in September of 2010. These included: adding deductions for business cell phone use; creating a new deduction for health care costs for the self-employed; allowing greater deductions for business start-up expenses; eliminating taxes on all capital gains from key small business investments, and raising the small business expense limit to $500,000.
If a business didn't spend money, how long do you think they'd be in business?
and, if the money that had to be spent last year didn't qualify as a deduction, but this year it does, then it's a tax cut.
Normal people don't care what you call it. If it makes them pay less taxes, it's a cut. Only hyper partisans with learning disabilities would argue otherwise.Do you understand the difference between deductions, credits and cuts? Nothing on that list is a tax, "cut".
What's that have to do with anything?
Tax deductions aren't retroactive.
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