Taxes

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

So I'm assuming I will probably have a decent amount coming back to me because I never switched from single to married with my employer.. With a refund I have differing opinions and pending how much I get back: Do I pay another month on my house(have a 15 year on it but would like to get it paid off as quickly as possible to have it as a rental then rinse and repeat), invest it, put it away as another safety savings account or a combo?

Here's how we decide between investing and paying down the mortgage: First, we invest a set amount every month (retirement, college, and dream fund). We also set a threshold of X dollars to keep in cash for our bills and emergency fund. Anytime our bank account balance exceeds that amount after bills and investments, we scoop off the excess and put it towards paying down the mortgage. It works really well.

[star seed 7]

That's a lot of excess money for someone so burdened by the unfair tyranny of taxes

[Emo EMAW]

Go to school they said.  Get a good job they said.  Deduct the student loan interest they said.

this is a good example of revealing info

Not unknowingly, tho. 

[sys]

So I'm assuming I will probably have a decent amount coming back to me because I never switched from single to married with my employer.. With a refund I have differing opinions and pending how much I get back: Do I pay another month on my house(have a 15 year on it but would like to get it paid off as quickly as possible to have it as a rental then rinse and repeat), invest it, put it away as another safety savings account or a combo?

invest, unless your mortgage is rough ridin' you, in which case, refinance.

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

That's a lot of excess money for someone so burdened by the unfair tyranny of taxes

I wouldn't be happy about the government taking 40-50% of my money whether I made a million or 50k.

[Dugout DickStone]

So I'm assuming I will probably have a decent amount coming back to me because I never switched from single to married with my employer.. With a refund I have differing opinions and pending how much I get back: Do I pay another month on my house(have a 15 year on it but would like to get it paid off as quickly as possible to have it as a rental then rinse and repeat), invest it, put it away as another safety savings account or a combo?

I would party down with it.

OR use it on a down payment on a rental property.

[sys]

The Congressional Budget Office projects a federal deficit of $693 billion for the current fiscal year. Take away the tax expenditures in the above table (which add up to $971.8 billion) and in theory you get a budget surplus of $278.8 billion.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-26/those-pointless-upper-middle-class-entitlements