I've just been doing my taxes via TurboTax.com and was quite excited this year cuz of my new Hybrid, which was advertised to net me up to $2000. Well, I didn't even get 20% of that. Since I started my job in September, I don't have much money income for last year. Technically, I would be a low-income person (not low enough for the Earned-Income Credit, but pretty low). And since I'm a low income person, I would be receiving a lot of my money back anyway since JPL deducts a lot from wages. If they actually did deduct all $2000, I would have had to pay no federal taxes what-so-ever, which wouldn't have been nice. However, the government needs money to operate, so they would only let me take $300 from the potential of $2000. Grr...

If I had it my way, I would have liked to pay MORE taxes and taken a bigger chunk of that Hybrid deduction because the clean vehicle deduction is money already set aside that wouldn't be used in any type of governmental programs, like NASA. However, the federal taxes that I am getting back does bite into governmental programs, which I would rather not do. That's also the same reason why I don't take deductions off charitable donations either.

Oh well, $300 is $300. That doesn't cover my latest shipment for Amazon Japan though.

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