SMH.....

how is this post allowed??

Poor Monte SMith couldn't have the NOS logo in his posts, but this is a 7 page thread already by a Vendor ??? about his products?? Whats MOPARTS coming too?? LOL

On a side note, everything I ever bought from 440 source has been great products !!

There was a bunch of other businesses that gave $1000 bonuses to employees because the tax cuts were so great. Lowes, consumers energy just to name a couple.

Most of those bonuses were graduated, meaning only the 20yr+ employees rec'd 1K were as a 1 to 2yr got $100, 3 to 5 got $200, ect....not all it was cracked up to be.

And kindly tell us how many got even a dime in years past.
Fact is, lots of people got bonuses they never got before as a result of the tax cuts. You can quibble, but many hadnt before, and did now, and some got a good bit

I got a bonus they raised my tax bracket to 32%.

I guess the over $41,000 Federal taxes I paid last year wasn't good enough. I'm a retired lineman that made the mistake of never getting married,having kids,or living in debt. I did without and saved and invested. And my reward is to always pay a higher percentage taxes than the top 1%. The tax on my same income would be over $9000 less just by being married. I don't mind someone getting a break but quit billing me because I'm single and don't have any right offs.

I got a bonus they raised my tax bracket to 32%.

I guess the over $41,000 Federal taxes I paid last year wasn't good enough. I'm a retired lineman that made the mistake of never getting married,having kids,or living in debt. I did without and saved and invested. And my reward is to always pay a higher percentage taxes than the top 1%. The tax on my same income would be over $9000 less just by being married. I don't mind someone getting a break but quit billing me because I'm single and don't have any right offs.

I looked at the old and new tax brackets. If you made enough to pay 32% on a little of your income and didn't before the tax cuts you must have had taxable income of 180k ish or so.
Because at 195k you would have been paying 33% before.
So in that slot, you payed a good bit less on most of it, and a tiny bit more on a very low percentage of it, because up to 157.5 k you only paid 24% compared to 28% before.
If you make a decent income like that you should find some rocks to crawl under. There are plenty.

i thought maybe he was talking about the tax rate on a "bonus" check, if i remember correctly it is around 40%

This is, in fact how the economy SHOULD operate. Over time, as costs go down, manufacturing techniques are developed to produce products cheaper a quicker come along, prices should go down. As you pointed out above, some have. And in fact, most likely should have come down more.


They don't because of the hidden tax of inflation. Prices don't really go up. What is happening, the value of the money you have is going down.

Dropped a 400 block off at the machine shop today and just out of curiosity I asked if the tariffs were affecting his prices yet and without hesitation he said oh yes.