Taxes and food stamps

[peachesforme]

I am TIRED of being penalized.  I worked my butt off, got my degree, got my career, work hard every day getting up at the crack of dawn to go to work. All school year I am exhausted from getting up so early and working so hard as a full time teacher and a full time mom.  What's my reward? Can I actually be rewarded with some money in MY pocket from all MY hard work?  No!  I have to pay more taxes. I have until the end of August to pay up. I have to somehow pay $4000 to the IRS while not working over the summer, since I'm a teacher. I can't get a job over the summer because, who's going to watch my 3 kids? Childcare is expensive and if I work, I will have that money taken away for childcare anyway. I am going to QUIT my job, get my child tax credits back from the gov't, and get on food stamps so other chumps can pay my way. sounds like a great plan doesn't it? 

[Momniscient]

No. All i see is whining.

Quoting peachesforme:

Quoting Momniscient:

Maybe you should put all that righteous indignation to use finding a new career.

Right, if I had a new career with higher pay, I would just be taxed more.  See how the system punishes those who work hard?

[angeltink7]

Quoting peachesforme:

Be thankful you are blessed enough to have time with you kids money or not.  No money...the library reading program is free.  Volunteering is free and maybe you will learn what people who really have nothing live like.  Riding bikes together is free.  Playing in the yard under the sprinkler is free.  You are a teacher teach them something new.  Make Geography or some other subject a goal to learn about over the summer.  How about a family pool pass is that affordable?  When I grew up my parents had 5 kids and no money and we had great summers just doing the free stuff.  It is about being together and enjoying one another not about how much money you have to spend.   

Be thankful you have a car to drive at all let alone one everyone can stretch out in. An SUV is not a need with three kids it is a want.  A car you can fit into is a need even if that means a trusty innexpensive Toyota Corolla or something similar. 

Tutor or babysit in your home for extra cash.  Heck the 11 and 9 year old should be old enough to be home for short periods alone unless they have special needs or are immature. 

Be thankful you have a healthy family no matter their dysfunction many don't and would gladly take yours. 

 

I have looked into all the options you described with free fun if you read the posts earlier. I'm not some snob who must have constant expensive entertainment. I just don't like being squeezed financially like this. And I did everything I could to budget and save money but hello..kids are EXPENSIVE.  And since inflation and taxes have gone up and the price of food and gas has skyrocketed, um, we aren't as well off as we were a few years ago.  I do not need anyone to tell me to be thankful becaues I am thankful we have food to eat and a roof over our heads.  But I'm sticking by what I said, I think the system abuses those who work hard, that is the mood from the entire working class in America right now, people are fed up having to pay the piper so much when so many others refuse to work.

Your coming here to complain about people who make less than you and saying you want to quit your job and go on welfare because you can't do expensive things with you kids this summer does come across as snobby.  Guess what people on welfare are not doing those expensive fun things either so you will be in the same boat and still owe the taxes you owe because you spent what you should have saved over the year. 

We are all living in the same world as you and we are all struggling more than we did in the past it is a fact of life that we have no choice but to except.  I am not rich so I have had to find ways to cut back and understand the difference between need and want but you don't see me whining that I don't have enough.  I have a kid and they don't have to be expensive if you supply their needs you might have to forgo their wants.  They will live, I promise you. 

I am working class America and I do not have the bad attitude that you have about helping my fellow man that is not as fortunate as myself.  Nowadays people who need welfare are our friends and neighbors who lost their jobs due to the economy and can not even find a minimum wage job or can but it is not enough to provide a roof over their heads and feed their children.  So no not every working class American feels the entitled way you do.  You are free to continue your narrow minded thinking assuming everyone on welfare is lazy and doesn't want to work.  You are also free to quit your teaching job because honestly I would not want someone with your ideals teaching my child and collecting my tax dollars for salary, pension, and benefits anyway.  You are already living off the tax payer so your going on welfare and giving up your nice benefits is fine with me less out of my pocket.   

[mommy74146]

Hey I totally understand. You work your ass off just to pay MORE taxes. I just had almost $600 taken out of my check for damn taxes. We must pay the government to work. It's total Bullshit.