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Some deduction items are notorious for attracting the attention of the IRS. The "home office" is one such. How is TT or any other program supposed to prevent IRS questions if you input stuff like that? If you consistently have to pay additional tax …
For some here, posting any comment in Standard English with more than one paragraph is a major challenge. They tend to be a bit envious of some others.
The article simplifies the problem to the point of absurdity. The "set aside" part is not a bad start, subject to the observations of msf (above).
The harder part is what does one do with that "10% set-aside". Just leaving it molder in a savings ac…
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From a strictly financial perspective, I'd have to say the …
Corporations are persons, and therefore entitled to all of the prerogatives and benefits due persons (1), except when an obligation as a person is involved (2), then of course they are not.
(1) For example, as persons they are entitled to spend wha…
@Art & @MikeM- Yes, I'm using Schwab for the very same reasons that Art mentioned- wife has absolutely no interest/clue as to what we have or where, so I want a place where there is a human being that she can talk to that can at least explain wh…
Shifting to bear...
@MikeM- I just looked again at the shift stick in my pickup- don't see any gear marked "bear". Is "bear" similar to "reverse"? Would a 4-wheel drive (or the Trumpian economy) have "compound bear"?
:)
@Catch22- This is indeed the story here in the SF Bay Area: contractors are damn near coming to physical blows over "stealing" skilled (and even some not so skilled) workers.
This situation was existing prior to the massive devastating fires in the…
@hank- Trying to recall if that Athens/Crete plane was a small jet or a turbo. Can't remember accurately, but it might very well have been a turboprop.
Probably the worst international flight that we've ever experienced was Olympic Air from SFO to Athens. The cabin attendants not only hated their jobs and their passengers (which might just be a little understandable) but they obviously hated each o…
@Gary's article link goes into some detail regarding Boeing's outsourcing of software engineering to Indian companies, and mentions that this also occurred with production of the 787.
By coincidence, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Federa…
"Boeing Outsourced Its 737 MAX Software To $9-Per-Hour Engineers"
@Gary- At $9/hr perhaps we should be curious about the qualifications of these supposed "Engineers".
Yes, our 1939/1940 cohort was very fortunate in still being able to obtain well-paying jobs with only a high school education + some technical training (building trades apprenticeship, mechanical OJT, or military experience for example). Not so now,…
Never happen. You're at the complete mercy of every internet hacker out there. I keep everything on backed-up local hard drives, with frequent off-site backup via portable hard drives.
I come from a background where we insured that our Public Safet…
It seems to me that oddly enough, there is a common desire from posters as disparate as Ted, hank and myself to avoid inflammatory subjects which are completely political, without even a tenuous tie to investing.
Edmond's post fits that description…
@JoeD- In fairness it's worth noting that he certainly wouldn't be the first US president to try that. Although, also in fairness, the total crudeness and abusiveness of his attempts are undeniably remarkable.
@Crash: Let's see now-
I guess we could reduce the flag at sunset, make the landing gear smaller as an aircraft lands, shrink the crossing gates as the train approaches...
You get the idea. Have another beer and forget the whole thing.
:)
@DavidM…
I have no idea whether this unfolded accidentally or by design, but in any case it ended well. Iran was put on notice that only the last-minute intervention by Trump saved it from serious retribution. If an accident, fortuitous. If by design, well p…
@Crash: ?
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move (someone or something) in a downward direction : he watched the coffin being lowered into the ground.
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I hope that we're not becoming so overzealous here that it's necessary to surgically dissect what was probably meant to be a rather lighthearted post. We all have our distinct personalities, and after many years of coexisting with MJG I really doubt…
@Catch22- As far as I'm concerned CPI might as well stand for Complete Political Inaccuracy. Whatever they claim to have been measuring has little or nothing to do with on-the-ground reality of the actual cost of living.
Anyone who believes that overall inflation is running anywhere close to 3% is living in a dream world. Hell, a round-trip senior MUNI fare just went from $2.70 to $3.00 (over 10% increase) and that's just one random number. Everything in the SF Bay …
