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Should military pay be taxed? We are paid via taxes by taxpayers, and taxes can’t be taxed, so is taxing military pay technically taxing taxes? What are your thoughts?
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Posted 7 y ago
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Unless things have changed, only your base pay is taxed. I see no issues with that. Using your logic, ALL people receiving a paycheck from the government should be tax exempt. Sorry dude, that dog don't hunt. We would have a real socialist society cranking up if we did.
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PO1 Jim Fuller
A fantasy game design for Wall Street, really? If you actually GaFS look up which presidents have had a balanced budget and which haven't, go all the way back to Eisenhower over a half a century ago... the problem becomes startlingly obvious.
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PO1 Jim Fuller
Sorry, a specious argument here. With a progressive income tax schedule the lower pay scale of service members is offset by lower tax rates at those levels. Some segments of public service must actually pay well or at least competitively to attract competent employees... you know, positions you can't trust to idiots. Retirement benefits become a significant consideration in the comparison as well. As far as the 'socialist' comment, do you really understand how socialism relates to the year 20.. whatever? Do you understand the difference between socialism, social democracy and democratic socialists? Ya, probably not, but you can look it up right here in the next 20 seconds. No, you can't go by what some twits call themselves, you have to go by what they do and support. But one thing, I know if you've ever called 911 for fire or police or anything like that in this country, congratulations!!! You are one of those flaming commie SOCIAL DEMOCRATS... ya, the actual, current, active form of government in the United States of America.
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PO1 Todd Baugh
Not just Base Pay is taxed. Anything that has the word "pay" in it is taxed as well unless you are in a tax-free zone (combat zone). Sea pay, Separation Pay, even Combat Pay (Imminent Danger Pay) is taxable outside those zones. Only things that are not taxed are "allowances", like clothing allowance, housing allowance and subsistence allowance.
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Think of it as forced savings. 99.9999% of SM's get it all back and then some each year. That's money that otherwise would have gone to waste on alcohol and Mustang's
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SSG Gerald King
I have a pay voucher from June 1965 showing both federal and FICA taxes being withheld.
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SSG Russell Busicchia
SFC Hashbun i don't get your point. Are counting allowances? If so single personnel don't get it back.
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SFC Michael Hasbun
SSG Russell Busicchia Put simply, the average young servicemember is fiscally irresponsible. If Soldiers recieved 100% of their pay, tax free, most would blow it every paycheck on alcohol, cigarettes and (insert vice here ). That tax return at the end of the year is often the ONLY savings a Soldier recieves.
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If you think about it, your not really paying taxes, your paying yourself with the taxes taken out.
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth paying taxes on funds that have already been taxed to pay for our military? That's double taxation which is consitutionly illegal, but your OK with that?
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SPC Chris Ison
SFC (Join to see) - Once the money is in the general fund and redistributed it is not "double taxation". Income is income. Only time you don't get taxed is when you are in a hostile fire zone.
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Maj Robert Thornton
LCDR (Join to see) that is the most logical statement I have had on this subject so far.
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