yeah they just raised our taxes up here about a year ago
well they've uh statewide raises they raise ours it seems like constantly we just uh passed a new one
uh fortunately or unfortunately it doesn't go into effect because we did not get the United Airlines
oh right Indianapolis got that didn't they
right and uh we had passed a
a provisional one that if if it did if they did locate here we would raise our taxes
but uh at least we thought we'd get something back from that
yeah
uh how do you feel about taxes
oh it seems like a big politics game like up here last year the governor's up for reelection so
he said the budget was fine and that the state didn't have any money and then right after he won the election he said we owed a lot of money so they raised all our taxes
and now it's election time again so they're trying to lower them
oh
so they're just talk about lowering them but they never do they just keep raising them
i've never seen taxes really go down
yeah me neither well actually they're going to here because they didn't have a budget for so long so they raised the tax rate real high for the last three months of this year and they're gonna lower it for next year
oh
i guess they figure they're gonna make up for all they didn't get when they should've had a budget
i hope they put that in writing
yeah yeah they say they're gonna lower but i'll see
i feel like the middle class people are supporting the nation and uh that the rich are not paying their share and of course the poor
can't afford it either but uh i really feel like and and i feel like you know i'm a middle class person
income incomewise anyway and uh i get tired of supporting the whole country
yeah so do i i mean i'm a a middle class barely but uh i don't think the rich are paying more let not enough i think they're paying too much
you think the rich are paying too much
yeah i mean if you're in the the three three percent bracket and they take a third of your check every month well that's ridiculous why bother working
well i don't know many rich that don't have enough tax breaks to i mean i'm talking about the really rich
well they should just tax everybody the same amount no matter what you make
right
that'd be fair
now i'll go along with that i you know
yeah no loopholes or anything everybody pays ten percent or fifteen or whatever
right now i think that would be fair and i you know
right
no no ifs ands and buts you know no big elaborate laws that say uh you know call for a lot of enforcement or a lot of review it's just
you know you make this you pay ten percent if you make a hundred dollars you pay ten percent if you make a million dollars you pay ten percent
yeah that's the way our state tax is here
i think it's pretty fair
our state taxes are somewhat based on the federal
hm
and uh they have not gotten it where the withholding is accurate
oh
so and and you withhold no matter what you do they withhold what they're supposed to and at the end of the year it's not enough
oh great so you ought to be saving up some every month to make up for all what they should be taking out
right so now you know when you sign your W-4 form or whatever W-2 whatever that is then they always say do you want a extra amount for state
um-hum
which is ridiculous but it's been that way for the last probably ten years
yeah i guess you you have to check yes or you come down to the end of the year and you don't have it to give it to them
right unless you have a lot of deductions but you know if you have a lot of federal deduction it ends up hurting you statewise
yeah
really
and you end up owing you know you may get nine hundred dollars back from federal and you're gonna owe fifteen hundred in the state
ouch
and uh it's it's just ridiculous but i i don't know i've they just came up with a twenty five percent increase on personal property in in Oklahoma county
and that is a chunk
yeah i'll say
i mean twenty five percent increase
yeah
