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If the government controls the insurance companies and the insurance companies control the doctors, who is going to control the government? Will the government's next step be to cut out the middle man and assume direct control of the doctors--and make all doctors government employees. Maybe set up an academy for future doctors like the ones for military officers.

I've received faxes intended for a doctor and faxes for some company that imports products from foreign countries.

I only prepare one EIC return--for a mentally-challenged grocery sacker. He lives with his parents but his Soc Security plus his earnings from the grocery store are enough to cover half of his support.

Clients tend to call when I'm not in and I return their call and they are not there. Someone called recently and wanted to ask a question about dependents, and after several rounds of phone-tag, I told them to send an e-mail. I did send them a page or two from The Tax Book re dependents, and haven't heard any more from them. I can't always answer every question off the top of my head. Often the questions they have requires research. Even if I know the answer, I prefer to double-check just in case the law has changed since the last time I read about the subject.

H D Vest was taken over by Wells Fargo. I went to several seminars when Herb Vest was putting them on. He provided free CPE for attending and the only fees were those with the licensing agency for taking the test. I got a license, but never used it since it was for selling high-load funds. I believe there are some expenses involved if you go through Wells Fargo's version of the H D Vest program.

I would charge him my normal fee--no more, no less, and I would refrain from advising him to request a refund from the other tax preparer.

I would agree that if someone starts a factory that violates a treaty, they should not do it. Whether we agree or disagree with the treaty is another matter.

As Willie Shakespeare wrote: "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose". There are passages in the bible such as: Slaves be ye faithful to your masters. The poor ye shall have with ye always. This could be used to justify slavery and poverty, few religions advocate slavery or poverty.

I think almost everyone agrees that we need government regulations rather than anarchy and I know of no religion that opposes helping others. If someone chooses to overpay his tax to help others, no one objects, but he has no right to compel others to do the same. He does have the right to try to have laws changed, but unless he is a dictator or absolute monarch, there isn't any way that he can change the laws without convincing enough others to support his point of view. Most of the abuses are the fault of the governments in poverty-stricken countries. The people who run those governments are not the ones that are poverty-stricken. I think Judge Learned Hand said it best: "Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands."

Even if helping a client keep more of his own earning increases poverty,it would not be appropriate to cause someone to overpay his taxes to decrease poverty. If there is a problem, it should be handled by changing laws, not by failing to take advantage of existing laws.

I filed my last return--and it was rejected because someone had fraudulently already filed using my client's SSN. She only made a little over $ 26,000 of which $ 20,000 was social security, so I told her to either mail in the return or just do nothing since she was not required to file. I said she might want to file to establish that she would not need to file in the future and attach a note about the fraudulent use of her SSN. I told her she didn't need to file in the future unless her non-SS income increased considerably

If it weren't for all those blacks and women voting, it would take a lot less time in the voting line.

Apparently eveyone in the graveyard voted for him.

I'm not planning to get involved an anything related to insurance other than entering things required on tax returns.

Jack, you must have given them the same advice that I gave my daughter--wait until after tax season, so her son was born April 30. Later she had a daughter born in July to give me still more time after tax season.

That's why I didn't vote for Woodrow Wilson. I knew he was one of those left-wing pinkos.

A vacation should qualify as a medical expense required for maintaining your mental health. Losses at a casino should be allowed as an educational expense to improve your skills in your present occupation--since it is always a gamble when you enter a deduction or fail to report some income. Doing EIC returns is the biggest gamble of them all.

Ralph and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Ralph suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there. Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled him out. When the Head Nurse Director became aware of Edna's heroic act she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as she now considered her to be mentally stable. When she went to tell Edna the news she said, 'Edna, I have good news and bad news. The good news is you're being discharged, since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of the person you love... I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness. The bad news is, Ralph hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he's dead.' Edna replied, 'He didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry. How soon can I go home?'

This has pros and cons with Drake software. Sometimes two smaller towns have the same zip code. The program selects just one, which may not be the one you want. There is a fix, but it is needed so seldom, you forget how to fix it and spend a lot of time re-learning it.

I was in the Air Force stationed in Texas when segregation was still the law. However, on the base there was no segregation. One day I was auditing the Base Library and shooting the bull with the Black sergeant who worked in the library. About 10:00 A.M. he said "Let's go get a cup of coffee." I had no objection to having coffee with him, but I wondered, "What will other people think?" Then I realized that Whites and Blacks often drank coffee together at the PX and realized that no one who saw us would think there was anything wrong with a White and a Black socializing. When I was in college, the school was segregated, but we had one obviously Black student who was classified as a Puerto Rican. In Texas there was more prejudice toward Hispanics than toward Blacks. Interestingly, two of the most successful people who attended my grammar school were the only Hispanics in the school. They were brothers, one who later became a four-star general and the other one later became Secretary of Education in the president's cabinet.

-- How to live forever A man is walking along a beach when he comes across a lamp partially buried in the sand. He picks up the lamp and gives it a rub. A genie appears and tells him he has been granted one wish. The man thinks for a moment and says, "I want to live forever." "Sorry," said the genie, "I'm not allowed to grant eternal life." "OK, then, I want to die after the government balances the budget and eliminates the debt. "You crafty little bastard," said the genie.

While passionately making love, the couple was interrupted by the phone ringing. The girl answered it, returning to bed a few seconds later. "Who was that?", her companion asked. "My husband," she replied. "He wanted to tell me he'll be out late because he's playing poker with you and some of the other fellows."

So did I. What makes you think anyone thought it was racist. I saw it as a non-racist joke just like the "non-racist" joke I posted. The first time I heard the Captain Goldberg joke, Goldberg was a lieutenant.

You can get all the CPE you need free, one hour at a time, here: http://www.deloitte.com/us/dbriefs I think this CPE may not count for EAs, only for CPAs. You do not have to take a test to get credit, just listen and answer some "polling" questions for which there is no right or wrong answer. Most frequent answer selected is "Not applicable or Don't know."

Another non-racist joke: Back in the days of segregation, a white man walked into church and saw a black man. "You had better get out of here. Don't you know this is a church for whites only?" The black man replied, :"I'm just here because I was hired to clean the floor." "Well, I guess that's all right then--but don't let me catch you praying here!"