Inactive Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka - Deadbeat (emphasis on "Dead") founder of Something Awful, forced out of his own community, on his second divorce, stuck his dick in crazy, "Birth Giver"

northstar747 said:
So the only thing I find odd is how low T had the...motivation to chase poon on FB let alone trail to UT.

I understand if Logan went to him but still thats time not spent pilled out.
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The extra cash had Lowtax feeling full of himself and he was sick of Ashli and that noisy baby. Running off to shack up in a hotel for a month with a young blonde chick was an appealing proposition when your wife keeps asking you to watch the baby, help clean, take her to the damn grocery store! (I still don’t understand how Ashli got anywhere while she was left at the house.)

I’m convinced Logan told Lowtax she was assaulted by her therapist and that’s why he took off to rescue mi’lady in Utah. It was the perfect emergency to allow Lowtax to abandon his family to tend to his new “business partner”. The timeline matches up pretty well for that to be the scenario.
 
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MirnaMinkoff said:
The extra cash had Lowtax feeling full of himself and he was sick of Ashli and that noisy baby. Running off to shack up in a hotel for a month with a young blonde chick was an appealing proposition when your wife keeps asking you to watch the baby, help clean, take her to the damn grocery store! (I still don’t understand how Ashli got anywhere while she was left at the house.)

I’m convinced Logan told Lowtax she was assaulted by her therapist and that’s why he took off to rescue mi’lady in Utah. It was the perfect emergency to allow Lowtax to abandon his family to tend to his new “business partner”. The timeline matches up pretty well for that to be the scenario.
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Ah he was expending effort to shrug off husband and dad duties.

Makes sense
 
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I love how indignant LowT got whenever he says "ACKSHUALLY I ONLY GOT LIKE HALF THAT MONEY FROM TAXES" as if we were supposed to apologize and up the Patreon.
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I'll push back just a little bit by saying he's not 100% wrong, due to how tax works. Patreon does not withhold taxes and does not pay FICA matching, so $1000 in patreonbux doesn't go quite as far as $1000 in wages from an employer, even accounting for Patreon's cut.

This is particularly true if you only look at the net pay line of your paycheck. Say you're paid weekly and you work 40 hours a week for $25 an hour. That's $1000 in gross pay, but in Missouri (assuming you're unmarried with no dependents) you're only getting about $782 of that:

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(source: first google result for missouri paycheck calculator pretty much; yes its rounding arithmetic sucks welcome to the tax world)

Depending on your tax deductions, you might get back some of the income tax withholding when you file your taxes at year-end; the FICA withholding is gone forever and eventually winds up in the hands of Chris-chan and other disabled trannies.

If you're a self-employed patreon piggy, there's no withholding for income taxes or FICA, but you still have to pay them. If you get $1000 in simpbux, that $1000 is yours after Patreon takes their cut, but you'd damn well better put some of those simpbux aside to make your federal and state estimated tax payments. You won't owe taxes on every dollar of that thousand, only on your actual total profits for the year (in this case, total income minus ordinary and necessary business expenses all of which you had better fucking document) but since you're not withholding for it throughout the year, the tax bill can sneak up on you especially if you're a spoiled manchild like Richard who does not distinguish disposable from nondisposable income.

Also, it gets better because if you're self-employed, you owe self-employment tax, which is a particularly sneaky provision of FICA. See, when you're a wagie getting 7.65% of your paycheck withheld for medicare and social security, it doesn't stop there because your employer has to match your FICA withholding. When your employer pays you $1000, it actually costs them $1,076.50 (plus unemployment tax and various other shit all of which has its own unique set of annoyances, but we're trying to keep it simple here); they withhold $76.50 from your paycheck, toss in another $76.50 of their own, and wire that $153.00 to Uncle Sam so he can keep Israel happy.

If you're self-employed, you're on the line for both halves of the FICA tax, a total of 15.3%. The calculation does get a little bit screwy since one 7.65% portion gets taken out first and then the other 7.65% portion is calculated from the remainder, and it triggers some other shit on your tax return which can potentially be beneficial, but you get the picture. If you're self-employed, taxes can hit pretty fuckin' hard.

As for whether Richard actually pays his taxes in addition to bitching about them, we have evidence to the contrary.
 
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Poor baby lowtax. Only cleared 8-9 grand a month from patreon and the forums while laying on the couch abusing pills, bagged pies, and women all day.
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You have no idea how glad I am that he managed to ruin this entire thing for himself by fucking someone that any sensible Kiwi knew would turn on him as far back as six months ago. People here knew he'd run face-first into this woman's pure insanity as far back as January, but Lowtax couldn't help but be awful. He managed to slip on his own shit and fell over.

All he had to do was not fuck up. But he keeps killing geese that lay him golden eggs, all on his own.
 
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Leonard Helplessness said:
I'll push back just a little bit by saying he's not 100% wrong, due to how tax works. Patreon does not withhold taxes and does not pay FICA matching, so $1000 in patreonbux doesn't go quite as far as $1000 in wages from an employer, even accounting for Patreon's cut.

This is particularly true if you only look at the net pay line of your paycheck. Say you're paid weekly and you work 40 hours a week for $25 an hour. That's $1000 in gross pay, but in Missouri (assuming you're unmarried with no dependents) you're only getting about $782 of that:

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(source: first google result for missouri paycheck calculator pretty much; yes its rounding arithmetic sucks welcome to the tax world)

Depending on your tax deductions, you might get back some of the income tax withholding when you file your taxes at year-end; the FICA withholding is gone forever and eventually winds up in the hands of Chris-chan and other disabled trannies.

If you're a self-employed patreon piggy, there's no withholding for income taxes or FICA, but you still have to pay them. If you get $1000 in simpbux, that $1000 is yours after Patreon takes their cut, but you'd damn well better put some of those simpbux aside to make your federal and state estimated tax payments. You won't owe taxes on every dollar of that thousand, only on your actual total profits for the year (in this case, total income minus ordinary and necessary business expenses all of which you had better fucking document) but since you're not withholding for it throughout the year, the tax bill can sneak up on you especially if you're a spoiled manchild like Richard who does not distinguish disposable from nondisposable income.

Also, it gets better because if you're self-employed, you owe self-employment tax, which is a particularly sneaky provision of FICA. See, when you're a wagie getting 7.65% of your paycheck withheld for medicare and social security, it doesn't stop there because your employer has to match your FICA withholding. When your employer pays you $1000, it actually costs them $1,076.50 (plus unemployment tax and various other shit all of which has its own unique set of annoyances, but we're trying to keep it simple here); they withhold $76.50 from your paycheck, toss in another $76.50 of their own, and wire that $153.00 to Uncle Sam so he can keep Israel happy.

If you're self-employed, you're on the line for both halves of the FICA tax, a total of 15.3%. The calculation does get a little bit screwy since one 7.65% portion gets taken out first and then the other 7.65% portion is calculated from the remainder, and it triggers some other shit on your tax return which can potentially be beneficial, but you get the picture. If you're self-employed, taxes can hit pretty fuckin' hard.

As for whether Richard actually pays his taxes in addition to bitching about them, we have evidence to the contrary.
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Can confirm all of this, also it's possible he has IRS and/or state garnishments coming out of his Patreon pay before he gets it. That part I'm not 100% sure if electronic self-employment income gets garnished like a paycheck but he still owes a lot more than he would just for the current year because he may never have properly paid taxes until he got caught.

What's really dumb is that if you're under a certain income, and his income would be counted after business expenses, you get thousands of dollars in tax credits for each dependent child (double whammy, a few grand for the number of dependants and at least a grand per kid on top). So at one point with a spouse and two kids, double the standard deductible that subtracts from your already-subtracted business income for being married ($10k per adult around 2007-2009), add several thousand dollars in tax credits for the kids, and you can usually pay what you owe in income tax and self-employment tax and still come out with a refund every year. And if he really made $150-250k or more per year after expenses when SA was big and didn't qualify for the tax credits, then there's no reason he and the company couldn't afford to make those quarterly payments. The business also gets to write off some of what it pays in taxes as well, and that sneaky double FICA you pay being self-employed comes off of your AGI too.

Make your quarterly payments on income in advance, and you avoid interest and fees. Never pay them, and when it catches up to you you owe interest for the entire time since the tax was first due. Then compound it for every year in between until you got caught. And that's just for honest mistakes, if you're willfully not paying then there can be criminal charges. Once again junkie instant-gratification wins
 
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Well if those are legit she’s a lot crazier than even we gave her credit for.

Nice to see these two can’t quit each other and still keep the drama going via phone and text.

I had at least thought Lowtax would be smart enough to cease all communication but he seems to think he can somehow get her to say something and he will be totally vindicated. If only she will just text “I’m a liar and I abused YOU” that will certainly fix everything. Lol.
 
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It's almost as if, as this thread and interest in their saga in general died down, more fuel had to be sprayed on the fire to keep it going a little longer.

1. This issue is relevant not because it is fake internet drama but because it is real human drama, with real human consequences. It's not a slap fight on a forum. That being said, if his point is that most commentators have no actual investment beyond wanting someone to hiss at in the SA gladiatorial arena, he isn't wrong.
2. Jesus, what a behavioural boomerang
3. Fixing it is impossible. There is no fixing it. The horse is not only out and running wild, the barn has burned down in a bonfire of vague neurological issues and criminal complaints
 
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