This is how a single mom used her tax return money.

[Signingin]

Wish they were more people like her.

Single mother’s tax return message goes viral: ‘A roof over my kids’ head is what’s important’ | myfox8.com

GAFFNEY, S.C. — A single mother’s Facebook post about using her tax return to provide for her kids before herself is going viral.

On Wednesday, Christina Knaack, a single mother who works a minimum-wage job to support a 4-month-old and 2-year-old, posted a picture of a $5,400 tax return receipt along with strong words about the money and how she plans to spend it.

“I got back $5,600 on my taxes. Instead of buying my kids the latest Jordans or fancy electronics, I paid my rent for the YEAR,” she wrote. I’m a single mom and I do it all by myself on a minimum wage job.

I know that a roof over my kids head is what’s important. My kids don’t want for anything because my priorities are straight. And this also means I will have that extra $450 a month to do things with my kids.”

The majority of the 18,000 comments in the post are positive and applauding Knaack for her sacrifice and selfless parenting.

“I got my taxes back and immediately paid off 1,195 in bills (care credit, Kohls, dentist office) in 5 to 10 minutes. That was the very first thing I did,” Molly McCracken wrote on the post. “Priorities.

I don’t have rent and my kids never go without anything; they good all year long, so I spoil them a little with this money but never new Jordan’s game systems and **** but like….their birthday parties and summer vacation come after tax time.”

In 14 hours, the post has more than 154,000 likes and 69,000 shares.

 

[Martin]

Nice lady. This lesson will go well with her kid's upbringing.

 

[papasmerf]

if she has a minimum wage job she never paid $5600.00 in taxes.....What she received was a liberal bribe not a refund.

 

[cristycurves]

Well next year she'll get less, with Trump in power, she'll need all she'll get to put towards her and her children's health care, and schooling. Regardless, I'm not sure paying ones bills should applauded, since that is her responsibility. Maybe the smarter thing for her would have been to hold off on having children until she was better off financially.

 

[User-E]

I used an inheritance to pay off my ex's credit card debt for him, and he was pissed because I didn't give him the money to spend instead.



Good for her for being responsible with the money. :good:

 

[Jasper]

Well next year she'll get less, with Trump in power, she'll need all she'll get to put towards her and her children's health care, and schooling. Regardless, I'm not sure paying ones bills should applauded, since that is her responsibility. Maybe the smarter thing for her would have been to hold off on having children until she was better off financially.

Maybe she's seeing her kids as a long term investment that will pay off with a huge jackpot by the time she retires. ancing:
If she pisses them off and leave her destitute she might have regrets.

 

[User-E]

Maybe she's seeing her kids as a long term investment that will pay off with a huge jackpot by the time she retires. ancing:

That's why people have so many kids in third world countries who know only one or two of their offspring will live to adulthood, let alone be able to provide for them in return, in the future.

There's also many cultures where it's traditional for children to look after their parents in old age (it's the law in China that you can't neglect your parents), so the more kids you have, the better you'll be looked after as a senior.

 

[HOOKED]

Well next year she'll get less, with Trump in power, she'll need all she'll get to put towards her and her children's health care, and schooling. Regardless, I'm not sure paying ones bills should applauded, since that is her responsibility. Maybe the smarter thing for her would have been to hold off on having children until she was better off financially.

This isn't meant to hijack the thread but i have to ask. Isn't it possible if they were to give a business man the chance to see what he can do the country may gain monetarily? Should he not be given at least a couple of years before all the haters jump all over him? I don't agree or disagree with the man, I'm just making an observation and there are so many that feel as you do as there are so many that really support him as well.

 

[papasmerf]

This isn't meant to hijack the thread but i have to ask. Isn't it possible if they were to give a business man the chance to see what he can do the country may gain monetarily? Should he not be given at least a couple of years before all the haters jump all over him? I don't agree or disagree with the man, I'm just making an observation and there are so many that feel as you do as there are so many that really support him as well.

While it seems to be a pragmatic approach you must realize some people just hate and wish to infect everyone they encounter with that hate.

Remember is you disagree with them you are Racist, Homophobic, Anti-islam, or anything else they can think of.

 

[Jasper]

This isn't meant to hijack the thread but i have to ask. Isn't it possible if they were to give a business man the chance to see what he can do the country may gain monetarily? Should he not be given at least a couple of years before all the haters jump all over him? I don't agree or disagree with the man, I'm just making an observation and there are so many that feel as you do as there are so many that really support him as well.

He's a lousy businessman, since when is multiple bankruptcies considered a success?
He's the leader of the biggest haters and we should back off??

 

[Thomas Crown]

if she has a minimum wage job she never paid $5600.00 in taxes.....What she received was a liberal bribe not a refund.

Actually no, with two dependents, housing credit, travel credit, and basic tax credit, thats about right. However there are other ways the Liberals try to bribe us with our own money

 

[papasmerf]

Actually no, with two dependents, housing credit, travel credit, and basic tax credit, thats about right. However there are other ways the Liberals try to bribe us with our own money

A refund indicates monies returned after payment.....I hold that she never paid that much in Federal Taxes.

 

[dragonrider99]

Our society has to stop glorifying single motherhood if we truly are concerned about the wellbeing of children. Research after research shows children are better off growing up in a conventional nuclear family. Even single father family is better than single mother family.


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[papasmerf]

Our society has to stop glorifying single motherhood if we truly are concerned about the wellbeing of children. Research after research shows children are better off growing up in a conventional nuclear family. Even single father family is better than single mother family.


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That is because Fathers acknowledge the children have mothers......

 

[User-E]

A refund indicates monies returned after payment.....I hold that she never paid that much in Federal Taxes.

This article is from the US, so I don't know anything about how their tax system works, but in Canada, you can get all kinds of tax credits and government rebates on top of the return of the taxes you've paid, depending on what tax bracket you're in. Single moms get a ton of perks in BC.

 

[papasmerf]

This article is from the US, so I don't know anything about how their tax system works, but in Canada, you can get all kinds of tax credits and government rebates on top of the return of the taxes you've paid, depending on what tax bracket you're in. Single moms get a ton of perks in BC.

And that my friend is called REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH.

 

[dragonrider99]

And that my friend is called REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH.

That's call taking resources from responsible people and giving to irresponsible people to buy votes.


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[cristycurves]

While it seems to be a pragmatic approach you must realize some people just hate and wish to infect everyone they encounter with that hate.

Remember is you disagree with them you are Racist, Homophobic, Anti-islam, or anything else they can think of.

Is that what Trump is trying to do? Infect people with hate? His actions and rhetoric clearly depicts that he thrives on hate speech, controversy, and his own imagination, which continually contorts reality. I'd also point out that your responses towards liberals are never anything but sarcastic and demeaning, what are you promoting? ...No need to answer. If you can make fun of and criticize liberals don't get your panties twisted when your side is shown the same treatment.
@HOOKED-Some of us can read into a person, from the first time we see them or hear them speak. Should he be given a chance? No not by me You can sit and wait, hope and do what you please and think of him as you will, that is entirely your choice and right. But I will continue to see him as the douche bag I think he is and those people like the woman in the op's post, will eventually see, he's in it for himself, and it is those of lower wages and middle class that will suffer most because of his actions.

 

[papasmerf]

Is that what Trump is trying to do? Infect people with hate? His actions and rhetoric clearly depicts that he thrives on hate speech, controversy, and his own imagination, which continually contorts reality. I'd also point out that your responses towards liberals are never anything but sarcastic and demeaning, what are you promoting? ...No need to answer. If you can make fun of and criticize liberals don't get your panties twisted when your side is shown the same treatment.
@HOOKED-Some of us can read into a person, from the first time we see them or hear them speak. Should he be given a chance? No not by me You can sit and wait, hope and do what you please and think of him as you will, that is entirely your choice and right. But I will continue to see him as the douche bag I think he is and those people like the woman in the op's post, will eventually see, he's in it for himself, and it is those of lower wages and middle class that will suffer most because of his actions.

So far Cristy you are the only one talking hate.

I am saying a refund should never exceed taxes paid.
BTW I have said this for over a decade.