NT Laugh of the Day III When a joke is not a joke....

[Jack from Ohio]

When is a joke really not a joke

A guy stopped at a local gas station, and after filling his tank, paid the bill and bought a soft drink. He stood by his car to drink his cola and watched a couple of men working along the roadside.
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One man would dig a hole two or three feet deep and then move on. The other man came along behind him and filled in the hole. While one was digging a new hole, the other was 25 feet behind filling in the hole.

The men worked right past the guy with the soft drink and went on down the road. "I can't stand this" said the man tossing the can into a trash container and headed down the road toward the men.

"Hold it, hold it," he said to the men. "Can you tell me what's going on here with all this digging and refilling?"

"Well, we work for the government and we're just doing our job," one of the men said.

"But one of you is digging a hole and the other fills it up. You're not accomplishing anything.

Aren't you wasting the taxpayers' money?"

"You don't understand, mister," one of the men said, leaning on his shovel and wiping his brow. "Normally there's three of us: me, Elmer and Leroy. I dig the hole, Elmer sticks in the tree, and Leroy here puts the dirt back........ Elmer's job's got cut ........ so now it's just me an' Leroy.

[JohnH]

And that, my friends, is exactly how they're going to try and convince us that sequestration is such a terrible thing.

[RitaB]

Cut. Cut. Cut. We are broke. Start with refundable credits.

You know, if you're driving on our roads, sending your kids to our schools, paying zero income tax, plus getting an $8,000 "refund"... well, I think we might need to reevaluate who's not paying their fair share...

[Eric]

And that, my friends, is exactly how they're going to try and convince us that sequestration is such a terrible thing.

I could have sworn they skipped that step, and went straight to trying to convince us which side's fault it is. Maybe they just made the switch in record time and I wasn't paying attention.

[taxxcpa]

The sequester might cut one or two things that shouldn't be cut, but it's worth the price if that's what it takes to keep this nation from bankruptcy.

[JohnH]

I could have sworn they skipped that step, and went straight to trying to convince us which side's fault it is. Maybe they just made the switch in record time and I wasn't paying attention.

Yes Eric, they did make the switch in record time.

Each side began blaming the other before the sequester was even discussed publicly.

[Gail in Virginia]

I wonder how things would play out with the economy and social security if EITC was eliminated, and instead there was no SS tax levied on the first $50,000 of earned income, with no cap on the other end? But when it is time to draw on SS, you still calculate as though the first $100,000 was the basis. Would that generate more or less for social security?