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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah wait… If nobody is getting paid, what the fuck are my taxes doing? Give 'em back.

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  • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Congress still gets paid during a shutdown

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    • pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How convenient.

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  • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    First everyone gets back pay, then people need to work a bunch of overtime after the shutdown to make up for work, so will actually cost even more money.

    But even if that wasn’t true, employee salaries make up less than 5% of the budget so a 35 day shut down (the previous record) would make up less than half a percent of the budget

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  • Matty_r@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I read that everybody will also get back pay.

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    • Burninator05@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m a federal employee. Everyone falls in one of three categories: Exempt, Excepted, Non-Excepted.

      Exempt people are expected to come to work normally and they are paid normally. They probably don’t really see a change.

      Non-Excepted people are furloughed. They were sent home Wednesday morning and will wait it out doing whatever they’d like and they will get all wages that were missed when everything is over. They will be paid for doing nothing.

      Excepted people have the worst of both worlds. They have to come to work because they’ve been deemed critical but won’t get paid for it until its over. I’m in this category. I’m doing my job but im taking my time to accomplish anything.

      The law that governs this is the “Government Employee Fair Treatment Act” of 2019.

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• CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You also won’t get that jobs report that they are supposed to release the first month of every Friday which they recently fired someone over the numbers being bad and then quietly revised it from ~+30k or something to ~-5k

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  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    August, -3k.

    Sept prelim, -32k.

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    • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you.

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• cattywampas@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can change your tax withholding whenever you want.

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  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sadly, I looked into this years ago because I was wondering whats stopping me from just paying all my taxes at the end of the year and I found that if you let it drop to far from the amount you owe then you can be penalized…

    irs.gov/…/underpayment-of-estimated-tax-by-indivi…

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    • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, ideally you want to stay within +/- $1000 range of what you owe

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah you can just not have any taxes taken from your check!

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    • knacht1@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s called tax exempt status and all the folks I seen try it eventually got hit up for the money from the lrs.

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• balderdash9@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This movie (John Q) is so fucking sad and could not happen in other countries. I always remember the wife yelling at John to “Do something!” when the hospital was sending their son home.

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  • RacerX@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That movie came out in 2002. Crazy

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• SirMaple__@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  John Q. Great film!

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