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A comment on TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free. Parent comment

Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by symlinkk on Thursday October 17, 2019 @11:20AM (#21282977)
Holy shit talk about a humble brag. You overpaid by $21k? You must be balling.
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Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by 0xffff2 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @11:29AM (#21283096)
At a 15% rate, that's only 140k in capital gains. Significant, but hardly "balling" if it's a one-time event.
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Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @08:01PM (#21287478)
USA minimum wage is $7.25/hr which is only $15K/year if you work full time, and we've got people that will refer to 140K and prepend it with "only".
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Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by symlinkk on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:50PM (#21284566)
What world do you live in where $140k in gains on an investment is not a huge amount of money?
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Re:TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Ta... by 0xffff2 on Friday October 18, 2019 @12:30PM (#21292737)
Silicon Valley... Would it be nice to have an extra $140k? Yeah. Would it be life changing in any way? Not really. I still wouldn't even be able to afford to buy a house.
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