Income Taxes

[warrior]

Originally Posted by Stewie

Capital gains on stock investments are even more ****ed up. Everyone thinks it's a great deal you only pay 15% on gains but what they don't realize is there's no corresponding capital loss.

You make $1,000,000 on a flying stock you pay $150,000 in taxes.

You lose $1,000,000 on a crappy stock the max you can deduct is $3,000 per year. Yeah, that's fair.

Washington makes the rules and Washington sees that they are the winner every time... unless you're a bank who made stupid decisions. Then we'll just give you taxpayer dollars. It pisses me off.

F***ed up ain't it.