I heard from my tax guy today. It appears I’m a major donor to the Iran war. IRS is going in dry. Good times.
Links?
Donny’s statement seems a little ambiguous.
From Theocracy to Military Dictatorship?
Okay, that’s it for me. I need to go pick up some Preparation H. Peace out, Glibbies.
Obligatory.
“We are now beginning to contemplate the reality that this storm could cost over a billion dollars of damage,” Gov. Green said.
I’m sure the state and local governments will respond with the swiftness and competence we first witnessed in the recent Maui wildfire.
Think of the real estate opportunities.
Taxes.
Yeah. I can’t wait either.
I got mine done a while back. Had a federal refund thanks to the no taxes on OT, but owed NYS.
Self employed. Here.
Evil rich guy.
For example, attacking their Gulf State neighbors, thinking that would force them to put pressure on the U.S. and Israel to stop. Instead, it’s convinced them that Iran is an existential threat to them as well.
The Arabs have always viewed the Persians with suspicion. Iran then proceeded to justify those suspicions. Not sure what the ayatollahs (or the Revolutionary Guard) were thinking.
If you wan’t to receive your refund from the Feds, you have to give them a bank account. Before you can do that, you have to create a secure login with a company called id.me. To create a log in with id.me, they need a photo of your driver’s license and a video of your face. Their software sucks, so it took me 45 minutes over 2 days to upload the photos and the video. So now a photo of my drivers license and a biometric video of my face are sitting on id.me’s unsecure cloud as hacker bait. Conveniently, according to id.me’s terms of service, I can’t sue them WHEN my identity gets stolen.
It’s Donald’s world, I’m just tryin’ to survive in it.
Seriously? I am not doing that.
What about the 1040EZ merited cancellation in his first term?
Huh. I didn’t know that was cancelled.
In order to access veteran’s healthcare at VA.gov I had to make an ID me account.
However, as a veteran Im pretty sure my personal and biometric data is parked on an unsecure server someplace.
I know the Chinese have my information thanks to OPM.
ID me is BS.
Far less secure than simply logging into EFTPS or any other federal website.
It’s a huge transfer of wealth I would guess as well.
Yep huge scam.
https://www.govconwire.com/articles/idme-bpa-irs-award-digital-identity
I’ve been depositing my refunds to my bank account for 10 or 15 years but I’ve never needed to “prove” who I am before.
If this is true then there is a way bigger case to be made against this than, say, requiring an ID to vote.
I believe the id.me piece is only required to access other online features of your personal account – not a requirement for receiving your refund.
That’s more believable.
Nope. In order to add my checking account number to my IRS account, I needed an ID.me sign in.
Yes, to SIGN-IN to your account – not to process your refund to your bank account.
I have always asked for a check previous years. This year they aren’t issuing refund checks. They never had my banking information before. If I wanted my refund (its not much, but you are fucking right I want my money back), the IRS needed a routing and account number for my bank. In order to add my account numbers I was forced to use ID.me.
Hm. I use a third party to process mine. I guess I will see when I do them later.
rhywun – I use a CPA. She needs an ID. In my case drivers license. She files using the provider portal to the IRS which is ID.me as well.
I’m assuming she uploads the license too. This was the first year I had to give her the banking information.
I was equally pissed. Also because I get to file a return for a real estate partnership federal and state plus personal returns for two states and the feds my CPA bill was $1,300.
Let’s not discuss how much I’m going to pay FedGov since I have already paid estimated taxes quarterly to the PDRNJ.
Jokes on them, I never get money back…
I wish I could dial in my withholding that closely. It irks me to give the government a free loan.
Baller.
“At this point, I would think Team Blue would want Massie to stick around. Or they think they can beat his opponent in November.”
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That these past Dem donors believe that Gallrein is more beatable is certainly a possibility. But another one is that what Massie calls “The Uniparty” is real.
Massie is nearly as painful for Dems as he is for Trump. No big surprise.
Oh, fuck. I’ve only got 3 weeks.
That is the one family financial thing that I am not in charge of. The wife has seen me go ballistic over it too many times.
Paging Ron73440 to the white courtesy phone….
Hello, everyone! I have been on a small trip to visit friends and family in the Bay Area, and am now heading home. And while passing through the land of S.P.U.D.s birth, it has been remarked on that this is the hottest it has been! …since 1914…
I tire of this.
Where did you go in the Bay Area? I lived there for 45 years.
Napa, Albany and then SF.
All places where I used to have tons of family.
I was in San Fran in December and it was bone chilling. Sea + cold. I somehow doubt it’s the hottest. I was there in the late 1980s. It got hot for a few years.
It was 90 in SF. And no one has AC in that city.
I was in London once in a heatwave and holy shit that sucked
It hit the upper 80s in April the year I lived there but it was a dry heat so not any issue at all.
90 on the east coast is a *very* different beast.
Chuck Norris was single-handedly holding back the Hawaii deluge.
I love the left going apeshit because he was a wrongthinker.
Every time I think I did not hate them enough….
Remember the good old days when you got your morning nutpunch from real libertarians? Well, these days I get mine from people like @thecivilrightslawyer on youtube.
In this episode, we meet the lawyer from FIRE who is handling the case of a Tennessee man who was jailed for 37 days for reposting a meme
https://youtu.be/VlXBqxOmYhA
The local sheriff took offense and claimed it was a terrorist threat. A magistrate signed off on a warrant and a judge issued a $2 million bail. Apparently no investigation of any kind was done while he was held, and they probably would have been happy to hold him for a year or two until a court finally agreed to order them to go to trial.
Enjoy the outrage. And hold a little bit of fear for how much power the courts have and how little oversight there is. The courts didnt correct this… TV coverage did.
Good. Nice to see the media do something right for a change.
Local TV, BTW.
And the reporter didnt ask the sheriff the 1 question i wanted asked. The sheriff said “people were afraid to bring their kids to school”
Who?
Name names
You had this guy arrested because these people were terrorized. They will have to testify. Surely you can name some names.
Who?
Didnt get asked.
also a Reddit mod?
The talk of the VA above has me wondering what those of you into the VA system think?
Having worked in a research lab located in the VA hospital in Birmingham. I have long felt that the VA was substandard. I have come around to the idea that we should just be paying for regular health insurance for veterans. Give them a voucher to go to Humana or Blue cross or whoever and they get a free policy that is the same as those offered to the public.
That way they go to the same hospitals and doctors as everyone else and dont wait in line for anything.
My knowledge on the topic is entirely confined to what I see on TV and the sad state of the facilities where my lab was located in the early 90s, so I’m no expert. What do you guys think? Is the VA doing something thay wouldn’t be better done at a regular hospital if all military vets were going to those regular hospitals? Would you rather go that route?
Taxes