Congratulations! Now pay the tax man.
Source: Uncle Sam spoils dream trip to space - CNN.com
Imagine always being a space nut; watching the typical shows, never missing a space program on Discovery, reading anything you can get your hands on, even attending a space camp - all in the hope beyond hope that one day you’d get to travel into space.
Then it happens… Oracle throws a contest. You win… and your prize is a seat on a space flight. You’re going to space!
That is, *if* you can pay the taxes.
You see, the IRS counts contest winnings as income. No one, and I mean no one, can explain this to me. You didn’t work for it. If you bought a ticket for the contest, you already paid taxes on the money used to buy the ticket. An income is money that you earn - unless you’re the IRS. Then it’s just about anything, and they want their cut of it. Illegal? I think so. Doesn’t matter, though. The IRS and its taxes, just like the Social Security farce and its payments, is forced upon us by government whether we like/agree with it/consider it constitutional or not.
Click the link above to read the story of a man who won a trip to space and have to give up his seat, simply because he wouldn’t be able to pay the taxes on it. Reminds me of the new cars Oprah gave away and all but a handful of the recipients had to sell the car just to pay the taxes.
When are we going to get a true and realistic tax system? Or for you bloggers, here’s a fair tax blog.
What do you think? I wanna know! Please leave a comment :)
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