{"id":883,"date":"2015-04-24T15:09:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T20:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therichdontpaytax.com\/blog\/?p=883"},"modified":"2015-04-24T15:09:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T20:09:07","slug":"youre-finally-working-for-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therichdontpaytax.com\/blog\/youre-finally-working-for-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"You’re finally working for yourself!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is Tax Freedom Day!<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

On April 24, 2015, at 3:36AM, the average U.S. taxpayer finally worked long enough this year, to have earned enough to pay his taxes for the year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tax Freedom Day the day when the average U.S. taxpayer has finally earned enough to pay his taxes for the year. Each year, the Tax Foundation<\/a><\/strong> gathers massive amounts of government tax data and from that data, calculates what portion of our income\u00a0we pay in taxes and how many days\u00a0the average taxpayer will have to work to pay his taxes. They then count that many days into the year and that day is Tax Freedom Day. This year, that day is April 24.<\/p>\n

We actually take it a step further, with our Tax Freedom Clock. We use the Tax Foundation report to calculate the exact second of Tax Freedom. The Tax Foundation has calculated that in 2015, Americans will pay 31.0% of their total income in taxes. Using that number, we calculated that the exact moment of Tax Freedom occurred at 3:36AM this morning.<\/p>\n

The Tax Freedom Clock was updated to this date and time on March 31, when the Tax Foundation announced the 2015 Tax Freedom Day. This clock counts down from the beginning of the year, to Tax Freedom (second). Then, it begins counting up, to inform the user how long he has been working for himself. At the end of the year, the clock resets and begins counting down to Tax Freedom again, using the prior year’s date and time, until such time as the new Tax Foundation report is issued.<\/p>\n

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The Tax Freedom Clock is a Flash\u00a0applet, so it should work on any web site or blog that allows web widgets (object code or embed code) and display properly on all modern browsers.<\/p>\n

Sorry, but Flash doesn’t work on iPhones or iPads. We have considered developing an iOS app and it still may happen in the future. But we are busy preparing a 2nd edition to “The Rich Don’t Pay Tax! \u2026Or Do They?”, finishing up another book, “The Tax Deception”, for publication this summer, and simultaneously preparing speeches to be presented at several large political conventions this summer.<\/p>\n

Allegiance Books encourages you to share this widget with your friends, by placing it on your own web site, on social networking sites and in the signature area of your various forum postings.<\/p>\n

There are two ways to place this widget on a web page. The most common is the “object” code version. But we also include the “embed” code version, in the event that the object code version doesn’t work on a particular site. Please note that some blogs and forums may not allow either “object” or “embed” code. In fact, embedding a widget on a Facebook page requires a special app. But in general, you’ll probably find that Flash web widgets are accepted on a wide variety of social forums.<\/p>\n

Of course, if it’s your own site, then either of the methods of embedding the widget should work.<\/p>\n

To share this widget with others, just select all of the text in one of the following boxes and copy it (Ctrl\u2013C on a PC or Cmd\u2013C on a Mac). Then, paste it into the HTML code of your web site, blog or forum posting (Ctrl\u2013V on a PC or Cmd\u2013V on a Mac), where you want the Tax Freedom Day Clock to appear on that page. Look for a button on forums that say something like “HTML” or “CODE”, to get to the point where you can paste this code into the page. That’s all there is to it.<\/p>\n

>> Use just one<\/strong> of the following\u2026 not both<\/strong>. <<<\/p>\n

This is the “object” code version that is most widely allowed on forum postings.
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