Mama Carol

You can claim mortgage interest, insurance, repairs and quite honestly a lot of things you couldn't claim if you lived in the house. But I'm envious. You have INCOME from your rental. I'm certainly not on the right, except I like the right side of the bed at night, and even I believe the left wants control over poor people. Only way they can keep the power. Control the voters.

No what? No kids? That's what I told my tax adviser a few years ago, too. We weren't about to take out a mortgage on a house that was paid for and the next choice was have kids. Not just no but he** no!! Like Canada?

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw, Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 30

Used goods are subject to sales tax now, why would it change? Instead of taking on a mortgage, which after all IS an expense, just have another kid or two.

I think initially there would be an impact from not being able to write off mortgage interest. I seriously doubt most people buy a house thinking "oh, I can write off the interest". With the standard deduction being so high now and interest rates being so low, I would imagine there are a lot of people who CAN'T write off their mortgage interest anyway. The real estate market is tough right now. People are buying but it's difficult to find 1) a house worth buying and 2) wading through the paperwork to get one. We have looked at literally hundreds of houses and probably 90% of them are

Why in the world would it encourage people to buy used or gray market goods?

Agree 100%. I am a pretty big fan of Romney. However, the release of his tax returns did not make me happy as a tax preparer. I believe everyone should take all deductions to which they are entitled and to do otherwise is pandering to the uninformed people who believe in class wars, which IMO is what the "rich should pay more in tax" argument is all about. LOVE the idea of consumption taxes instead of income taxes. Yes, yes, yes!!

I've never liked to fear things. Especially don't like to fear things I have no control over. Prefer not to worry either. C'est la vie. What will happen will happen.

To a large degree I agree with you. As I pointed out several weeks ago, there is a thing called life and sometimes it deals you a bad blow. My husband had a co-worker who was making outstanding money. He was in upper management and on the fast track to corporate offices in Colorado. He suddenly developed problems with his eyes. I don't remember exactly what but I think it was an aggressive form of cataracts. In a very short period of time he lost his eyesight. He ended up losing his job, losing his wife (long story on that), losing his house and becoming disabled. He wasn't even mi

But what if you had NO money to go to the store and NO money to go to Kohl's, never mind having money to spend AT the store or AT Kohl's? We're not talking FEWER trips but are talking NO trips because you have no way to get there. No money to pay for a taxi, no car, no bus. If it's not close enough for you to walk to or ride a bike (if you're lucky enough to own a bike) or you can't get a ride with someone, you don't go because you CAN'T go. There are more really poor people in the area than anyone imagines. Many are not getting any kind of assistance. They don't have Internet so they

Food stamps will pay for food but there's a lot that isn't "food" but still basic to living. Toothpaste, soap, dishwashing detergent, laundry detergent, toilet tissue, hair brushes, tooth brushes, clothes.

Paying taxes should be fair. You should pay the same percentage as everyone else in your income bracket regardless of your income. If you're in a 15% bracket, you should pay 15% whether you're in the bottom of the bracket or the top of the bracket. That said, there are a lot of deductions that I believe should be omitted as well as a lot of items included as income that should not be. I believe INCOME tax should be paid on income from wages, not investment income. I should not be penalized by paying tax on earnings because I made a wise choice in my investments. Pensions should not

My brother lived in the Middle East and various countries in northern Africa for many years. He interacted daily with the citizens of those countries. He KNOWS what they are like from having been with them. Virtually every e-mail he sends me is a forwarded warning about Muslims in general or Obama in particular. I really have to ask myself WHY he sends them to me. Does he really believe these warnings about Muslims? I think perhaps he does. Perhaps the warnings about Obama are sent for the reason. Because he has SEEN people like that. My brother warned me and the rest of the fami

I never liked a guy whose hair was longer than mine. This guy could be bald and he would still be awesome! He's a survivor, he takes no crap off anyone and to me, that's sexy. And please don't tell my husband I was talking about another man!

While my friend might resemble rebellion a little, believe me when I say he is mature and has evolved into one hell of a man. I've known him since we were 14 and there is NOTHING feminine, immature or boyish about this guy. He's been through more hell than probably 98% of people in general. If he wants to rebel and wear a ponytail, at least he's alive to do it. He and I have lost a lot of friends and classmates so every single day that we have above ground we cherish.

Also the perks of working for yourself. My clients know my "uniform" is jeans and generally a t-shirt.

I have a very dear old friend who always kept his hair short, probably due to his days in the Army and the fact that his parents never allowed the boys to have long hair. About 18 months ago he stopped getting haircuts. He looks wonderful! Gray, curly hair in a ponytail. Still has most of his hair, too, even at 57. Yeppers, looks great. Last year at Thanksgiving it was just getting to shoulder length and his sister told me he looked like General Custer. She was right. He did.

Not having high heels including boots would mean absolutely nothing to me. I don't own either. Ever since I broke my foot in 2006 I have either gone barefoot when possible, worn sandals, worn athletic shoes or worn low heel "dressy-casual" shoes. I wear little make up but don't touch my perfume. Or my purses!

I have a Google Nexus One that I haven't figured out yet. Cut back the data plan because I didn't use any of it to speak of. I have a computer for e-mail and FB and web surfing. I only use my phone for talking (when I can't get out of it) and texting. If it weren't for the fact that texting is so much easier on the Nexus, I'd go back to my old LG flip phone. I loved it. Texting on it is really difficult especially now that my fingers don't work like they used to. Of ALL the phones we have ever had in this household, probably 8 or 10 of them, we only paid full price for two of them.

That was my question, too. I don't stand in line for anything much except to buy groceries and vote. Nothing else is that important.

I must be older than I thought. I was WORKING and in my 20s at the time of the crash. I had only been to Paulding County once before that crash but for some unknown reason I felt a tug to the area. I have since been to the crash site a number of times and always feel "strange". I CANNOT imagine how someone who was even close that day must feel.

http://news.yahoo.com/tax-penalty-hit-nearly-6m-uninsured-people-194442599.html Nearly 6 million Americans — significantly more than first estimated— will face a tax penalty under President Barack Obama's health overhaul for not getting insurance, congressional analysts said Wednesday. Most would be in the middle class. And the budget office analysis found that nearly 80 percent of those who'll face the penalty would be making up to or less than five times the federal poverty level. Currently that would work out to $55,850 or less for an individual and $115,250 or less for a family of

We had THREE different garbage services pick up today on our dead end street. They were all between 8 and 3. Might have been more than three but I saw three. In the winter when we have our windows closed, I don't hear the one that comes at 5 or 6 a.m. I'm asleep and dead to the world. In the summer, spring and fall when we have our windows open, they occasionally wake me. I'd much rather have a garbage truck waking me up than a fire truck.

Ours usually gets here before 6 a.m. Before we started with our current service I told my husband I wanted the one that woke me up every Tuesday before daylight. Lo and behold, that's the one we have. BTW, my granddaughters can sleep through trains blowing the horn right outside their windows (literally, just a street and about 25 foot right of way between their windows and the track), trucks rumbling by, trains rumbling by, sirens on emergency vehicles flying out to 278 but they wake EVERY TIME when the toilet is flushed. Starr did that the first night at home, when she was 2 days ol

I remember when a customer of ours bagged a deer but had no freezer in which to store it. They asked if we wanted it. We said sure. We didn't have the money to have it processed so I did it myself on the kitchen table. Only expense was freezer paper and tape.