The new Tax Laws

[Trinity]

The new tax laws strips all professional performing artists that are union and paid via w2's from every one of their business expenses.

It quadrupled our tax liabilities, and with the taxes from NY added in  when you work there when they tax your earnings from other states (same would be true in any other state that does that) - it effectively raises the taxes for me to a whopping 70% of my income when you deduct my expenses.

And with NY average cost of a single room in an apartment being at about 1000 per month, you go straight under.

Add to that the gutting of the national endowment for the arts and the support for public broadcasting, and what you have is a massive gutting of the professional theater, and total destruction of the professional actors.

And, if the ACA is taken away, and if trans is excluded from the ACA, we have yet another level of oppression.

What we are seeing, and this is gas on a fire in this forum, is the total oppression and annihilation of all things good in America.  Every gain that was made since the 1960's is being eradicated, we are regressing into an Oligarchy where the lower classes and oppressed are forced to line the fat of multi millionaire and billionairs.

It is pure evil, and killing the arts is tantamount to the burning of the books in Nazi Germany.

We must overthrow this current government in the coming elections, in the midterms, and the current ruling president has become a clear and present danger to humanity, they must get him out of office and fast, before he destroys all that is good in this world.

But year, I wanted to vent.  The new tax laws are forcing me in a specific direction, I can only do deductions now as a self employed performing artist, so I'll be writing my own material and taking it on the road in non union ventures.  The only way I can make money in NY is a Broadway gig or a one person show jobbing in.

Unless I form a not for profit theater, and I am seriously considering it.  The Living Trans Theater, Inc.

Unreal.  Taking the poor, the folks who work so hard, and trippling their burdens, selfishness maxed and cloaked as righteousness.

Get them out.   Fast.

I am enraged.

[Ativan Prescribed]

If you ain't one of the filthy rich, you got totally screwed on the tax scam, people are just starting to find out how much they are giving to the filthy rich, the real scum and deplorable of our country, I don't care how much they do this or that, they have so much money they could cure cancer, Alzheimer, malaria, you name it, the budgets that the people who are trying to find the cures is minuscule compared to the money they have, sure toss a few million here and there and then try to pass that off as doing good with the money? They have so much it doesn't dent it, it not even 1% of what they have, and they have it because they maneuvered it away from everyone else, trump thinks that makes him smart, it just makes him an asshole.