I have two scenarios that I have encountered that basically "change the rules" at the govt's whim, and screw people.
First, many years ago I wrote off a portion of my home expense to reflect the space I used as an office/business. It was a totally legit business and I paid a lot of taxes on that income. Then, when I go to sell my house, I find out that I have to RECLAIM those expenses. In other words, if I wrote off $8,000 a year for ten years - as a legit expense - then I have to regather all those deductions and claim them as income when I sell - so I get slaughtered on taxes. Wow. Give me a deduction - and then take it back. What shit head came up with this backstabbing plan?
The next one is even worse. Not financially, but in being so underhanded and dirty.
I have a couple of old credit card debts that are nearing their statute of limitations. This should mean that they will now die off from old age and go away. But no. I just discovered that an attorney can "get a court order for a revivor of the judgment." In other words - the statute of limitations runs out, but the attorney asks a judge to reset it all, so we start over again from the beginning! Why have a statute of limitations if it can be nullified? Why not just say - hell, we will pursue you as long as we want to. Could be ten years, twenty - who knows? Yeah - that statute thing - that's funny, isn't it. You actually fell for that one?
Another big one is someone losing their pension because the company changed hands somehow and they throw out all the rules that everyone had been playing by for - decades. I know several people that lost their pensions completely.
Who the hell do these people think they are? They make rules that everyone plays by, and then they revoke them cause they feel like it?
And don't get me started on how they tax the inheritance money that already had taxes paid on it. That money has been already "taxed" so keep your damn hands off of it.
And, for the icing on the cake - don't ever cooperate with police voluntarily. Do they just want to talk to you? You're a nice guy - you have nothing to hide. They lie. I was arrested once after I agreed to meet them and talk to them. Never again. I will talk all day - because I respect the law - but we're not doing it in person face to face. $600 and 12 hours later I was out of jail. But it should have never happened in the first place. They don't care - they get bonus points for arresting someone, and the bail people make a damn good income playing the game.
Hope these insights help someone. I never thought our great country could be so back-stabbing.
First, many years ago I wrote off a portion of my home expense to reflect the space I used as an office/business. It was a totally legit business and I paid a lot of taxes on that income. Then, when I go to sell my house, I find out that I have to RECLAIM those expenses. In other words, if I wrote off $8,000 a year for ten years - as a legit expense - then I have to regather all those deductions and claim them as income when I sell - so I get slaughtered on taxes. Wow. Give me a deduction - and then take it back. What shit head came up with this backstabbing plan?
The next one is even worse. Not financially, but in being so underhanded and dirty.
I have a couple of old credit card debts that are nearing their statute of limitations. This should mean that they will now die off from old age and go away. But no. I just discovered that an attorney can "get a court order for a revivor of the judgment." In other words - the statute of limitations runs out, but the attorney asks a judge to reset it all, so we start over again from the beginning! Why have a statute of limitations if it can be nullified? Why not just say - hell, we will pursue you as long as we want to. Could be ten years, twenty - who knows? Yeah - that statute thing - that's funny, isn't it. You actually fell for that one?
Another big one is someone losing their pension because the company changed hands somehow and they throw out all the rules that everyone had been playing by for - decades. I know several people that lost their pensions completely.
Who the hell do these people think they are? They make rules that everyone plays by, and then they revoke them cause they feel like it?
And don't get me started on how they tax the inheritance money that already had taxes paid on it. That money has been already "taxed" so keep your damn hands off of it.
And, for the icing on the cake - don't ever cooperate with police voluntarily. Do they just want to talk to you? You're a nice guy - you have nothing to hide. They lie. I was arrested once after I agreed to meet them and talk to them. Never again. I will talk all day - because I respect the law - but we're not doing it in person face to face. $600 and 12 hours later I was out of jail. But it should have never happened in the first place. They don't care - they get bonus points for arresting someone, and the bail people make a damn good income playing the game.
Hope these insights help someone. I never thought our great country could be so back-stabbing.
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