My employer sells “stocks” to employees that don’t show anywhere and you can only sell them back to the company after two year. Exchange also isn’t immediate. Company chooses the date.
They really want people to buy those things and are heavily campaigning for it.
They also give a small amount of these stocks as bonuses to people that have performed well.
When I say to people that buying those “stocks” just gives the company free loan, they look at me weird.
Yes, stock is basically a loan to the company. Sure, if a company always new it was going to grow at a certain rate and life were guaranteed they could give everyone an exact raise…
Instead they say “here is a bonus, its built on a gamble. Here’s is monopoly money that might be worth 10% more in two years, or maybe the company will be bankrupt and you will be unemployed.”
Would it be better to get a cash bonus or a raise of similar value? Sure.
doesn’t show up somewhere
Oh look, it’s a scheme.
You’re 99.5% sure getting screwed over
Do these socks appreciate or pay a dividend?
Same with everything we invest; RRSP, TFSA, even our own money from our accounts is used by them
Yeah you could have made $1.35 in interest!
Not much different than having it in a chequing account except that I’m less likely to spend it on something stupid.
1 year GIC rates are pretty good (4-5%) but considering that 50% of people under 55 can’t afford a $1000 surprise expense it’s not really a question of getting a handful of dollars from interest that the government could have given you to invest.
See facts like this make me wonder if a Norway style sovereign wealth fund could be developed to close the gaps in people’s quality of life and what they’ve put into working.
It’s not like the US is short on natural resource wealth to invest as the principle, and put together with a restructured tax regime it could significantly reduce the net burden for most americans, and especially the most misfortuned americans.
The US is a net importer, though. It wouldn’t make sense.
I think that has more to do with the economics than the availablity in most cases
>Visit a park for free
> Realize that you’re theoretically owing everyone in town roughly $0.01 for your “free” stay
#JustLibertarianThings
Not really, that’s what I’m paying taxes for
that and unlimited military action around the world
The second one not really, the German army is staying mostly at home these days
Listen here, buddy, we can either suspend our beliefs the easy way or the hard way for the sake of this joke!
wait til you hear about bank accounts
Bank accounts, you mean the one place most people specifically do get interest, the opposite of what this post is pointing out?
Mine doesnt. I cant find the data about how many accounts do.
Savings accounts get interest. Paychecks usually don’t get deposited in them and people don’t have enough left over to save much anyway.
It’s like 0.5% but my credit union has interest on checking lol
Those pay dividend
That’s stock
Not all stock.
Not all but some.
Definition: Dividend refers to a reward, cash or otherwise, that a company gives to its shareholders. Dividends can be issued in various forms, such as cash payment
No. My checking and savings bank accounts both pay dividends on a monthly basis.
That’s interest
That’s from a credit union not a bank
I dunno. On my bank statement they are titled as “Credit Dividends”
They make their money by investing mine. In return, they provide me a safe place for my cash and financial services. Fair deal. I’m OK with that.
Having said that, fuck banks for private individuals. Go credit union, all the way. And while we’re at it, call your bank and tell them you don’t want overdraft protection. They have to turn off the NSF fees, and that’s not my opinion and it’s not negotiable. It’s law in the US.
Just found out about credit unions. Banks, but non-profit. How did I not think of this earlier!?
And now you learn about housing co-ops: Renting, but non-profit!
Yes! And Community Land Trusts. I don’t know what this political position is called but I totally support it. Perhaps ‘Fairtrade Capitalism?’
That’s socialism, baby!
Bruh, this is literally Market Socialism.
TIL I am a Market Socialist
My local uni has a credit union and no one uses anything else lol
Wait, as a bank? I’m suprised your uni has one as I expected them to be quite hard to run. Wouldn’t you need to employ a couple of good economists to invest the money, keep a part liquid, etc. for you?
I’ve lived in several places and at least two of them (including the one I have now) had a credit union as a university thing that only people affiliated with a university can use. I have one now because my wife used to work at the university, so we qualified for them then and you get to keep them even if you no longer are affiliated.
I wish you got to keep your right to pay for a membership to the university sports complex. Seriously, if you were an employee or student, you could pay $15 a month to use the track and pool and weight room and stuff. But if you weren’t attached to the university, there is no amount you could pay to use it. They also made employees pay for parking. My wife has worked for two universities. Both of them made her pay for a university parking sticker. But, again, if she or I wanted one now, we couldn’t get one. What the fuck.
I’ve seen a handful of "university of [place name] credit union"s I imagine it’s a case of “we already do some financial products, might as well cut out the middle man and make it a branch of the business”
I also worked at a regional bank with about 20 locations. Out of the 120 or so employees most were tellers and branch managers, then only about a dozen were behind the desk people doing literally everything else keeping the lights on, so in terms of headcount it doesn’t take that many people to run a small bank. Hardest part is raising the capital to get a bank charter (I think that’s like 10 million dollars for a single location last I looked)
Surely the list of countries/governments that don’t ever even bother to give their citizens a tax return is much longer than the ones that do.
In my country you just don’t overpay taxes.
What percentage of those are ones with competent tax-funded programs that actually provide value to their citizens? Cause in the US I don’t see shit
here in Mexico there’s an app and website from Hacienda (Treasury) they calculate your tax return automatically. I tried it 2 years ago and they’re still working on “returning” my taxes
As an accountant I’ve listened to several colleagues talk for hours about dialing in their W-2’s, some even under withholding and making quarterly payments to make up the difference. Calculating exactly what they are saving and investing that into a seperate account.
Probably spending more in fees than they’re saving. Let alone the time invested. I’m perfectly fine with the government slowly accumulating 1% of my income extra over the course of a year and sending it back later personally.
Fellow accountant here.
I’m getting $500 back this year. Sometimes I owe that much and offset with additional HSA contributions.
I don’t sweat it much beyond that. Just make sure I’m safe harbored and reconcile in February.
Unless we’re talking tens of thousands of dollars variance, the “free government loan” is entirely immaterial for most people, especially when savings accounts were paying a fraction of one percent interest and investments would either ring up ridiculous fees or require lot purchases far beyond the excess withholding.
I’m drinking beer this afternoon and don’t know if there’s a point to what I just said.
I’m drinking beer this afternoon and don’t know if there’s a point to what I just said.
Yes. There is a point to saying you’re drinking beer this afternoon. The point is that you’re having a nice afternoon!
$1,000 is a nice little windfall to get back in February or March.
$1,000 is a lot of money to suddenly have to come up with before April 15.
It doesn’t have to be that hard for normal paycheck people. Just set the deductions so you owe money trial by error style. As long as you get enough of a raise each year you won’t owe a penalty.
This is kinda what I do, I work out of state so I have been tweaking to get my state refund for one match the balance for the other because I’m too broke otherwise.
While this might be correct, I disagree with this as a philosophy.
A) most people in this country don’t have cash reserves to pay an underpaid tax bill.
B) most people don’t have the investment acumen to properly invest monies not withheld on taxes to benefit from not paying as much on their income.
C) They just spend the money because most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and because A and B.
So for most people I would say that judicious overpayment of tax on the W4 resulting in a minor or modest tax refund is probably better all-around. That money will go right back into the economy or pay off some debt.
It kind of feels like a year-long savings account. Once a year, we have enough money to do something like pay for new gutters.
Yep. We tend to view it the same way. The return is pretty small most of the time, but it’s something.
It’s was a funny way for me to think about it. I don’t really mind the easy taxes are now
That’s cool. However I think some people take this philosophy seriously and set themselves up for a problem. Figured my 2¢ wouldn’t hurt.
I got a notice this year that I got about $95 in interest from over paying taxes. It’s the first time I’ve gotten something like that, I don’t remember if it was state (CA) or fed.
I’m still waiting on my 2021, and 2022 refunds
What type of wages? W2? 1099? Or self employed? Or something the regular person or even upper middle class wouldn’t even know about :)
Doesn’t matter. You’d have spent it on bullshit, anyways, but now you have a nice chunk to blow all at once!
This. Every year I tax some percent above what’s necessary, and clap with glee when I get some extra income.
i got 63 dollars back :D
Me:
- Gets a bill for my tax return.
- Pays said bill.
- 3 months later; government refunds me the interest from that bill.
Am I winning?
This assumes tax return is because of over-withholding. If you’re like me with a young family and low-ish income you pay $0 in federal taxes and get a bunch back for EIC, child tax credits, etc. I’m just excited because I’ll be able to fully pay off some of the debts that have been hanging over me and largely not shrinking at all next month
I’m gonna be straight. In reality I’m absolutely fine with taxes. It’s just funny to think about it as in the meme.
