Frank and Ernest by Thaves for April 26, 2015
April 25, 2015
April 27, 2015
Transcript:
News Frank: To broaden the tax base, they started making robots pay income taxes. Ernest: Of course! They can't vote! Red Robot: My first tax return and I get audited! They said everything was wrong! Red Robot: Despite the fact humans totally rely on us, we can't list them as dependents! Red Robot: They said my "net income" is not what I earned working online. Red Robot: And I shouldn't have used the "short" form even though I have some bad electrical wiring! Yellow Robot: You'll do better next time... Yellow Robot: ....just remember to disconnect your logic board before working with the human tax code.
TREEINTHEWIND over 9 years ago
I think we’ll have to hire a human to work on this for us…….
TREEINTHEWIND over 9 years ago
Careful now……. they might want to go after you for taxing their brains…………
jbmlaw01 over 9 years ago
Half the people who vote don’t pay taxes. The correlation is not strong.
pschearer Premium Member over 9 years ago
The bots can soon learn that taxation can still be tyranny even with representation.
dwpbike over 9 years ago
let the war stories begin…
lmonteros over 9 years ago
Too true! And pschearer, the robots can’t vote, so they have no representation, like the folks in DC.
jppjr over 9 years ago
I still say we go to a year with 26 months of 14 days each…and kiss April 15 goodbye!!
hippogriff over 9 years ago
Nabuquduriuzhur: I had a similar experience in the 1960s. Tired of going 20 miles for model supplies, we organized a cooperative. At this time, REI was strictly in Seattle, and no one had any experience with consumer co-ops. I spent an afternoon at the Dallas library trying to find out what form we needed to file our corporate income tax on. No luck. I went to the IRS and they came up with an answer, I said, No that’s for …" and we had that exchange three or four times. Each time, they looked it up and found I was right. It became obvious to all concerned that I knew more about consumer cooperative tax law than they did. Ultimately, we filed on a standard business form, but with an extra sheet of “translations”. “Where it says stockholders, we mean members”, etc. No problems. You just have to know the law better than they do.