{"id":11618,"date":"2012-11-07T14:45:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T19:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=11618"},"modified":"2017-01-24T17:54:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:54:42","slug":"the-tax-man-cometh-you-betcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2012\/11\/the-tax-man-cometh-you-betcha.html","title":{"rendered":"The Tax Man Cometh? You Betcha!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2012\/11\/money_1.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11620\" title=\"money_1\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2012\/11\/money_1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/a><br>\nAll I\u2019m sure of so far is that the Healthcare Flexible Spending Account level that you could set aside tax-free was slashed from $5,000 to only $2,500, effective January 2013. That\u2019s one way taxes can be raised for everyone without income taxes rates being changed.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of the muddle, for it will be a battleground, the folks over at <em>H&amp;R Block<\/em> have a helpful little graphic. Take a gander at it over a beer or your other favorite beverage.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2012\/11\/Obama-wins-What-that-could-mean-for-your-taxes1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11619\" title=\"Obama-wins-What-that-could-mean-for-your-taxes1\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/85\/2012\/11\/Obama-wins-What-that-could-mean-for-your-taxes1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"2711\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hrblock.com\/2012\/11\/07\/obama-wins-heres-what-that-could-mean-for-your-taxes-infographic\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read more<\/a>. I don\u2019t think I saw anything about the effects of not buying health insurance in the mix up there, but that doesn\u2019t kick in until 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Does all that ciphering leave you scratching your head? Well, scratch no more fellow citizen, as the geniuses at School House Rock (your tax dollars at work) covered this topic too. Sing!<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/6Q3NPgHZzDo\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/6Q3NPgHZzDo<\/a>\n<p>Is your head still spinning? Then sing along with the ditty penned by the spiritual Beatle, George Harrison.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Beatles - Taxman (2009 Stereo Remaster)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZqK97av7I3s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All I\u2019m sure of so far is that the Healthcare Flexible Spending Account level that you could set aside tax-free was slashed from $5,000 to only $2,500, effective January 2013. That\u2019s one way taxes can be raised for everyone without income taxes rates being changed. For the rest of the muddle, for it will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,37],"tags":[87,127,21,668,667,669],"class_list":["post-11618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","category-working","tag-economics","tag-election-2012","tag-music","tag-school-house-rock","tag-taxes","tag-the-beatles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Tax Man Cometh? 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