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Norte Dame Cathedral is burining down. {nm} Antibody Apr 15, 10:50

Disney, Ubisoft donates to help rebuild Antibody Apr 17, 09:24

Any donations to the Louisiana churches? {nm} islndr Apr 17, 09:37

"Face It: You (Probably) Got a Tax Cut". The Tax Policy Center estimates 65% of people paid less under the law, 6% paid more, 29%-no change PhoneHome Apr 15, 06:20

just finished taxes. total owed between fed and state: $586 OUCH {nm} islndr Apr 15, 07:01

between that and the miniscule extra i got weekly, it was a wash {nm} islndr Apr 15, 07:02

Had to pay for the first time in many many years ($3000)...ouch {nm} YouDontKnow Apr 15, 09:01

Ouch indeed. Something's not set up right. Be sure to adjust the amount being withheld from your check to avoid a repeat this year. {nm} PhoneHome Apr 15, 09:47

what's the expression?...moving furniture around? {nm} tealfan Apr 15, 09:56

"Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." {nm} DTravel Apr 15, 12:58

that sweet $1.50 a week professor zovek Apr 15, 13:45

I paid less but I had to go to an accountant to figure out where to deduct my work expenses and I moved to a state Moviesnob Apr 15, 13:54

Sounds like Texas, Florida, or Nevada. {nm} PhoneHome Apr 15, 20:02

stars at night... {nm} Moviesnob Apr 15, 20:25

So you were in the 29% break even and not in the majority. Sucks to be you. {nm} PhoneHome Apr 15, 20:01

on average, Jamie Dimon and I are saving a couple billion a year between the two of us. score! {nm} professor zovek Apr 15, 22:41

44% pay no federal income taxes at all {nm} forlorne Apr 16, 07:36

Because they don't earn enough money. RogerMore Apr 16, 11:03

I get it, I wasn't making any point about "mooching", just that if you don't pay any taxes, you can't get a lower forlorne Apr 16, 14:02

How do you feel about the largest corporations in the USA not paying any tax at all? Zip. Zero. Zilch. {nm} BSmurf Apr 16, 17:17

Corporations do not pay tax, it is just another hidden tax on whoever uses their products. Passed on as a cost of doing business. {nm} forlorne Apr 17, 06:19

Exactly! If their tax goes up, their price goes up. Then you pay the tax. When their tax goes down, your 401k goes up, economy benefits. {nm} PhoneHome Apr 17, 08:44

record corportate profits and multimillion dollar ceos, yet cant pay a liveable wage. and you know most americans dont have a 401k islndr Apr 17, 09:12

Wages are based on supply and demand. If there is a line of people that can and want to do what you do, wages forlorne Apr 17, 12:09

False information. Corporations do pay "living wages" and most working Americans do have 401k's or other retirement plans. {nm} PhoneHome Apr 17, 12:57

"only 32% of Americans are saving for retirement in a 401(k)" (and that includes miniscule amounts too) islndr Apr 17, 13:24

1-what are we to do about people not saving for the future? The huge majority COULD save something, and the sooner they start the less it forlorne Apr 17, 13:37

People on low incomes do save, but they save for problems like emergency medical care, or car repair, or money to get them through when they RogerMore Apr 17, 16:57

Only 21% have no retirement savings. Your sources must be the propaganda rags. PhoneHome Apr 17, 20:39

It gets passed on, but not necessarily to consumers. No one actually knows for sure where the burden of corporate tax falls in practice. RogerMore Apr 17, 09:07

Not on CEO salaries. corporate taxes are yet another scam to convince people someone else is paying. {nm} forlorne Apr 17, 12:10

Nah, there are a bunch of good reasons for corporate taxes, you're just choosing to ignore them. {nm} RogerMore Apr 17, 17:07

Examples? {nm} forlorne Apr 18, 07:02

"If there weren't, every individual who could would corporatise themselves for tax minimization purposes." RogerMore Apr 18, 09:35

Early golf tomorrow: Masters first tee at 7:30am, CBS coverage at 9am (due to expected bad weather late day) islndr Apr 13, 14:16

Someone is going to have to get up pretty early to get out there and yell "Baba Booey!" after every drive. {nm} Buckee Apr 13, 19:20

How many would he have if not for the injuries. The knock was no competition when he dominated. He took on all today's stars as well. {nm} PhoneHome Apr 14, 16:42

Nice ending tonight to the final ever (regular) episode of The Grand Tour. Tears from Clarkson, and clip package from Top Gear. islndr Apr 11, 17:56

Turner Sports (TNT, TBS) will present @AEWrestling at their upfronts on May 15...will debut the same week as WWE Smackdown moving to Fox. Antibody Apr 11, 13:44

Supposedly Tuesday nights. TNT runs nba I think. I’m not sure aew can top those numbers {nm} islndr Apr 11, 18:01

lots of stories about toxic envirnment are coming out of wwe this past week. if aew ratings are awful too. if aew is even remotely islndr Apr 12, 08:34

(oops wwe ratings are awful) {nm} islndr Apr 12, 08:35

Lakers!!!! ROFLOL {nm} Moviesnob Apr 09, 19:31

it's glorious {nm} professor zovek Apr 10, 09:23

and no Hughes or Kakko for Kings. {nm} Antibody Apr 10, 09:37

yeah...sorry to see that...and Chicago needs to buy a lotto ticket {nm} tealfan Apr 10, 17:14

good luck tealfan and BSmurf. I hope we either break your heart in the finals or you beat someone else for your first Cup {nm} Moviesnob Apr 09, 17:38

this is the year the Leafs finally send the dirty Bruins home crying professor zovek Apr 09, 17:52

I actually put down money on the bruins un Vegas last week ( and the caps too of course) {nm} Moviesnob Apr 09, 18:41

Mtl Habs fan here, with more family in Boston than Toronto, but hoping Leafs beats the Bruins... Time to bring the Cup back home... {nm} Lukasck Apr 10, 15:12

thanks...let someone else get their turn would you =P {nm} tealfan Apr 09, 19:25

oops i mean jdolphin! Moviesnob Apr 10, 12:48

I'd love to be enthusuatic but the BLues play so differently in the playoffs vs the regular season - but maybe this year will be different!! {nm} jdolphin Apr 10, 12:54

:*( {nm} BSmurf Apr 10, 17:33

Hug? {nm} Moviesnob Apr 10, 17:49

happy 154th anniversary of White Traitors Surrender Day professor zovek Apr 09, 15:05

Chris Davis is getting paid $17M this season to do what any of us can do. Antibody Apr 08, 20:23

you're a meanie {nm} Moviesnob Apr 08, 20:55

He just broke the futility record - 47 straight at bats with no hits jdolphin Apr 08, 22:48

he's making the Glenn Davis and Albert Belle deals look like steals of the century {nm} professor zovek Apr 08, 23:38

Ugh. Glenn Davis for Finley and Schilling and Harnisch. Why did you have to remind me of that debacle? {nm} Paul2k Apr 09, 04:40

nobody who lived through it will ever fully heal {nm} professor zovek Apr 09, 10:43

i see there is a pitcher for the nationals who has yet to record an out (T Rosenthal) {nm} islndr Apr 09, 12:23

Once upon a time he was a good closer for the Cardinals. But he didn't pitch for a year after they released him {nm} jdolphin Apr 09, 21:49

SBD: XFL rejected merger with AAF Antibody Apr 08, 13:50

Trump removed DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Secret Service director Randolph "Tex" Alles Antibody Apr 08, 11:25

Saw one report that Nielsen is out because she was resisting Trump's demands to reinstate family separations in defiance of court order. {nm} DTravel Apr 08, 12:12

It's all Stephen Miller aka Trump's Himmler Antibody Apr 08, 13:31

only hiring the best people {nm} professor zovek Apr 08, 15:18

Until they're not.... {nm} DTravel Apr 08, 17:00

They never were. {nm} Antibody Apr 08, 18:34

Dead Cat Man knows better than you do who's best at dismantling all the social changes of the last generation. {nm} DTravel Apr 09, 11:42

He nominated the best people to self-destroy each department... {nm} Lukasck Apr 09, 10:43

Someone just attached Bret Hart at the WWE hall of fame! {nm} islndr Apr 06, 17:20

Seems ok but wow {nm} islndr Apr 06, 17:20

Can’t wait for video of all the wrestlers destroying the guy:) {nm} islndr Apr 06, 17:25

GSU: American Revolutionary War General Casimir Pulaski may have been a woman (I smell movie!) Antibody Apr 05, 10:03

WP: Trump lied for the third time that his father, Frederick Trump, was born in Germany. Antibody Apr 04, 09:20

Between that, the ludicrous claims (windmill cancer) and inability to pronounce words (oranges-origins), there should be concern. {nm} islndr Apr 04, 10:11

Wondering if this is just plain lucid lies, or senility, or he's too much in his own world of lies to realize it... {nm} Lukasck Apr 04, 11:00

Maybe that's the story he was always told and he didn't know the truth {nm} YouDontKnow Apr 04, 11:56

his grandfather did get banished from Germany for (surprise) refusing his own mandatory military service professor zovek Apr 04, 12:00

Donald falsely wrote in the art of the deal that his father cane from Sweden (because after ww2 being German was bad for business.) {nm} islndr Apr 04, 12:10

Oops, wrong. Sorry {nm} islndr Apr 04, 13:47

(grandfather) {nm} RogerMore Apr 04, 13:57

From Trump: Art of the Deal "Fred Trump was born in New Jersey ion 1905" Antibody Apr 04, 13:23

Maybe he really is demented {nm} YouDontKnow Apr 04, 15:04

Donald Trump has spent his entire life lying. He has found that if he just repeats a lie enough times enough people will believe him. DTravel Apr 04, 15:41

but he also guzzles Diet Coke and eats fast food like a teenager, which have been correlated with dementia risk professor zovek Apr 04, 21:37

40 years ago? DTravel Apr 05, 12:14

diet coke and fast food are correlated with dementia? Which "journal" did you read that in? {nm} forlorne Apr 09, 11:49

"We were the ones who got the city to produce the birth certificate, and we think we did a good job." {nm} DTravel Apr 04, 12:09

Wow trumps Biden tweet, did u see that? Not sticking up for Biden, but how can u respect the presidency with that garbage {nm} islndr Apr 04, 15:44

NYT: Mueller team members believe their findings are more damaging to POTUS than initially characterized by stooge AG Barr professor zovek Apr 03, 16:54

House Ways & Means (finally) makes demand for committee to see six years of POTUS tax returns professor zovek Apr 03, 15:25

Trump will tell them to pound sand {nm} Chimpmuck Apr 03, 16:06

the request is to the IRS and Treasury commissioners, not POTUS personally. he has no say in their production {nm} professor zovek Apr 03, 16:51

By the time it goes through lawyers and courts, He will be out of office. {nm} chipshot Apr 08, 09:35

The legislative imperative to root through a private citizen's tax returns is_____? {nm} forlorne Apr 09, 13:58

reddit: I like this fan-made poster for Endgame...I'm also partial to posters where the superheroes are masked :) tealfan Apr 03, 13:04

Chinese national carrying thumb drive containing malware arrested on site at Mar-a-Lago. guess the WH isn't the only place without security professor zovek Apr 02, 16:22

I dunno...I’m going to need chinpunk to tell me if this is ok or the dems fault {nm} islndr Apr 02, 18:00

But her emails... {nm} Lukasck Apr 03, 08:03

Didn't even finish a season. The AAF will suspend all operations. Antibody Apr 02, 10:27

So.... Finally Johnny Manziel left the LCF, the Mtl Alouettes, to go directly to... not much... and with a bonus commotion in last game... {nm} Lukasck Apr 02, 10:39

hear that, Vince? {nm} professor zovek Apr 02, 11:07

Vince has sold WWE stock so his league should have more than enough $. Aaf attendance and ratings weren’t too bad actually, xfl can make it. {nm} islndr Apr 02, 11:51

NYT: whistle-blower told House committee that WH granted security clearances to at least 25 individuals whose applications had been denied Antibody Apr 01, 12:00

NPR's Mak: whistleblower was suspended w/o pay for 2 weeks. for Failure to scan documents in separate pdf files instead of a single pdf file Antibody Apr 01, 12:04

The decision to grant or deny a security clearance is a discretionary function that belongs exclusively to the Executive Branch. Chimpmuck Apr 01, 13:36

And oversight of the Executive Branch is a discretionary function that belongs to the Legislative Branch. {nm} DTravel Apr 02, 12:23

lock them up? {nm} professor zovek Apr 01, 17:23