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I'll tell you one thing, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to find out you owe alternative minimum taxes. Oh the humanity!

I thought Bush was taking care of big fat greedy lawyer cats like me. How am I supposed to accumulate an obscenely ginormous estate to pass on tax-free to my parisitic offspring with this kind of shit going on?

Christianity
 

Every time I check in here, one of you guys reminds me of how similar the Republican Evangelicals are to the Fundamentalist Islamic crowd.

I miss Jimmy Carter. <<sniff, snifff>> (Did I do this part right?)

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Sure. The more senior my Senator spouse becomes, the more aggressive I am with my deductions.

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That's what you get for using TurboTax. If you just did your return manually, you'd never even have looked at the AMT and assumed it didn't apply to you. And you'd have gotten away with it because nobody at the IRS knows how the fuck it works, either.

Christianity
 

Social cripples everywhere think you could stand to work on number 1 also.

tax question
 

Bingo. I like your style taxwonk.

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Fucking TurboTax. Paigow promised me I wouldn't get fucked using it. Who can you trust?

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That to me is an interesting question--don't the computers that churn through these things know? Like when they bitch me out for adding 2+2 and getting 3?

I've been figuring, why calculate the AMT. Just send in the return, adn get the calculation done for you, and then pay the extra, with some interest.

Christianity
 

Worst. President. Ever. How did we survive his whining about human rights? And "malaise"? And "energy crisis"? There was no energy crisis - there was a crisis, all right but he was too timid and mousy to go over to where the oil was and take it! Thank God our President Bush has no such misgivings. President Bush understands that God meant for us to have that oil!!

Carter, as a Demorat, is doomed to an eternity in the fires of Hell, like all the rest. The sooner he accepts that, the easier it will go for him. God Bless America!! God Bless President Bush!! God Bless Tom DeLay!!

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When I did my taxes manually (gasp!) some line being over some certain amount told me to go to page whatever in the instructions to see if I owed AMT. I plugged a few numbers in from my itemized deduction to do that, and, happily, never owed it. So I'm not sure how the IRS wouldn't be able to do that reasonably easily -- unless you are mischaracterizing your itemized deductions as things that aren't added back for AMT purposes.

Wanker, you are supposed to charge people who intentionally cheat a premium rate. I am assuming that you will be giving him the GA discount from the premium "deliberate tax cheater" rate.

dumbass sock, if you give $50k to charity next year, I guaranfuckingtee you will have a lower tax rate. Yeah, I know someone else already pointed this out.

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I agree with taxwonk, I don't think the IRS is too sophisticated in their review. Also, I am not arguing for lying, just for utlizing the whole of the grey zone. Push the envelope.

I would rather "round up" my existing donations. Your advice is a little weak compared to taxwonk's but it sounds like he is a tax guy and you obviously are not.

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I've been trying to understand whether your name signifies "Whoop-Ass Man", or whether it's "Whoo! Pass Man", or "Who? O, Pass Man", or perhaps the frisson of delight that comes with the tension between the different possibilities.

Something to think about when you pick an avatar. Carry on.

Should five percent appear too small
 

No, she is not a "tax guy." And her advice might be a little weaker than wonk's (wow -- say that three times fast!) because she's a girl, and we all know that girls are weaker.

(Mr. Wilson, Mr. Heath!)

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If you were married to a Democrat, you'd do the opposite out of a healthy fear of Karl Rove.

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This is going to get good . . .

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Depends. What kind of bumper sticker do you have on your car?

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I don't put bumper stickers on my car, out of a healthy fear that someday someone will rear-end me because they were busy reading my bumpersticker.

If I felt differently, one car would have a bumpersticker saying "KILL YOUR TELEVISION," and the other would have one saying "TELEVISE YOUR KILL."

Looking Out For Number 1.
 

Now, that's not a very Christianly thing to say, sweetie. You need to turn the other cheek. Forgiveness is divine.

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Don't you have a hybrid?

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No, he said, suspecting that it was a set-up for a joke.

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I am having trouble comprehending what in the hell you are saying here, is this some avant garde type of humor?

However you do raise an issue that is relevant, which is: avatars. In an earlier post I asked for a recommendation on freeware to resize avatars. anyone?

Christianity
 

God Bless women who stay home with the kids!



Mater Delorosa!

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Yes.

If RT doesn't see this, send her a PM -- maybe she knows. I've never been able to do this with Snapfish, the photo-hosting site I use for my blog.

Christianity
 

I do not agree with most of this.

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I had a "no bumpersticker/no vanity plate" policy out of a healthy fear that I should need to one day make a quick getaway, I didn't need to be identifiable.

I put a Kerry/Edwards sticker on my car, in October. After a suitable period of mourning (three weeks), I took it down.

Now I have an arts organization's sticker on my car.

I may have to improve my driving.

Looking Out For Number 1.
 

Did I somewhere claim to be Christian?

And besides, there is nothing to forgive. I mean, it isn't like he was directing that wonderful law school parable at me... Wait. Do you think he was calling me a social cripple? And here I assumed he was discussing Hank again.

He couldn't have meant me. I mean, it isn't like I sit around and have conversations with a bunch of strangers on the internet all day. I know real people who like me. Pets count, right?

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No, just had a weird mental image of a dinosaur zooming along 101 S in a hybrid. Time for coffee.

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Try this.. IIRC, it's a free online image resizer.

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At work, I generally use either microsoft paint or the imaging program in the Windows accessories folder.

At home, I use the software that came with my digital camera to resize and annotate.

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My advice is not to spend too much time on the avatar- if you do something spectacular, then some sim will just copy it and Ty and Rt and them won't stand up against the copyright infringement. w/o ip rights there is no real incentive to create. EO would have G's ass for that but whatever.

Christianity
 

Then you are a traitor. Traitor, traitor, traitor. Traitor, traitor, traitor. Nyah-neh-nyah-neh-nyah-neh!

God, I'm depressed - I can't find my cigarettes, and I broke open the last case of 2-Buck Chuck last night. What am I going to do for dinner?

Should five percent appear too small
 

I am so going to call you at home and leave a lascivious message on the home voicemail/answering machine. Weak my ass.

My advice to this sock-o-penske was not really serious. I feel it is a moral failing to not pay your taxes in accordance with a reasonable view of the law -- tortured readings are not reasonable. Stretching is not reasonable. I feel as strongly about this as other people do about abortion being murder, though I have not (yet) bombed any consultants' offices (but I am listening carefully to what has been revealed about Eric Rudolph's plans for various gay nightclubs and the Olympics and abortion clinics).

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You should try my new tax refund plan - change jobs at some point during each tax year. Paying double social security is one way to guarantee that the government will owe you money back come tax return time.

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A little morbid for a dinosaur to be driving a vehicle powered by petreoleum, don't you think? I should look into biodiesel.

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Not if you are a poor fucker schmoe who makes less than six figures . . .

Real Patent Lawyers Would Get IT
 

Big hairy woman come on in
And don't forget your bald headed friend
Hey pretty woman let the boys
Jump in
Two timin' woman girl you know you ain't right
Two timin' woman you's out with my boy last night
Two timin' woman that takes a load off my mind
Two timin' woman now I know the baby ain't mine
Oh, two timin' woman
Oh pretty woman.

With apologies to Dahila Lithwick, I'm wondering if the truck drivers who deliver pills to pharmacies are going to allowed to refuse to make deliveries if they have religious objections to some of those medicines.

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Damn AMT upped my ETR by about 1% this year. I don't use any program to figure the taxes. It would save time and cut down on errors, but I'm stubborn. I checked the AMT because the 1040 says you have to.

S_A_M

And another thing....