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My point was that I've NEVER EVER paid quarterly estimated taxes ahead of time and ONLY ALWAYS paid at time of filing my taxes in April of the year following the year I'm filing (like pay in April 2025 for the year 2024) and YET, I've had to pay quite a bit MORE in the past re Federal Tax, than I paid this year...and the IRS NEVER CONTACTED ME AND IT'S NOT ANYWHERE ON MY IRS ACCOUNT I CAN SEE ONLINE. I looked and looked and looked for some past amount owed for failure to pay estimated taxes ahead of time...this is something I didn't even know I had to do as I have not worked for money since the year 2002, and I never made enough most years to even have to pay ANY income taxes (my social security is only $521 per month, for example) so this is not something I was even aware of since NO ONE TOLD me, including the IRS, that this was necessary. I knew it 'existed' for some people to do, but I assumed it was only for self-employed people, which I am not.
So I am perplexed as to why suddenly I am supposed to be doing this, when before even owing more and waiting until the following April to pay my tax, I was not penalized. The only time the IRS has ever contacted me about anything at all was back in 2012 when I hadn't filed for 2 years (2010 & 2011) because of lots of reasons not important here, and so they did those 2 years for me and I ended up owing something like $50 or less for my Federal Income Taxes, plus a small fine of about $10 for failure to file; I'm quite sure that the IRS spent significantly more $$$ collecting this from me than the pathetically small amount that I owed them. I'm not exactly rolling in money, I'm on Medicaid (called AHCCCS in Arizona). Maybe I can given a pass this time because honestly I had no idea I had to do this but now that I know, I can and will. (My income fluctuates wildly from one year to the next so it's hard to plan ahead but I think I can maybe manage to muster up $150 a month somehow, even though other than my meager social security, I don't get most of my income until the last week of December. However if I lose my Medicaid due to Orange Mussolini and his gloating billionaires club, I'll be in big trouble and I'm very worried about that because then I'll lose quite a bit of my minimal social security to pay for Part B of Medicare, plus copays & for medicine and all that jazz and basically won't be able to afford medical care because of that. And the small kind of rural community clinic with a sliding scale that treats mostly people on Medicare and AHCCCS (where I go) will go out of business. So the nuts and bolts clinic staff will lose their jobs and those on the clerical end of things will maybe become unemployed and impoverished as a result.
I have several permanent partial disabilities that have made working for money difficult for decades, and now at age 73 impossible...but I don't receive "disability payments" because I'm not quite impoverished enough for that. What this means is that you have to be almost living in a dumpster and surviving on the discarded/expired food from grocery stores to qualify. Of course that's a bit of an exaggeration, but lately it's not all that far off from the truth. Then if you do get it, you can afford rental housing in a crime infested neighborhood that actually should be condemned for being structurally unsound and unsafe. I know a few people in that situation, but they are happy just to have a roof over their head and a donated bicycle to get to dumpsters for the food & clothes they can salvage, and to churches and foodbanks. I myself have fortunately been spared this type of degradation but I am well aware of its reality, and these people are not drug addicts nor are they mentally ill, they are just impoverished seniors. But, it Could happen to me in the future, becoming homeless. Meanwhile I'll be a good girl and pay my taxes, while the Billionaires, who are completely clueless about & clearly don't care at all about the lives of the less fortunate, are doing Just Fine.
All Hail Orange Mussolini!