Jack from Ohio

Finished planting the garden. We have 3 14' rows of Bluelake green beans, 3 Roma tomato plants, 3 Earlygurl tomato plants, 2 straight neck yellow squash plants, and on two corners of the garden, giant sunflowers. Garden is 14' X 14'. I am now working on amending a 2011 return where JH did not include property insurance on 4 rentals. The next task is a big farm I have on extension. Happy Memorial Day. We owe our freedoms to everyone who has served in the military. All gave some, some gave all. This weekend is to memorialize and remember those who gave all. God Bless America!!

You really have a warped sense of capitalism. It did not "fall into his lap," they had a superior product, with superior customer service, designed and developed by computer code writers that are tax professionals too. Their business started in the 80's and now they are reaping the results of doing it right.

Have you considered immigrating there? Otherwise, what is the point of your comment? <<<"Catherine I hope you would agree that the world and America has changed drastically since 1789">>> Maybe 1913 would better fit your example??

Warren Drake himself told us that 5,000+ new people signed in Feb & Mar. They have already geared up. This is NOT a corporation. This is a company that was founded by a man and his family and has stayed true to providing a product that their customers want, can use efficiently and is "lean & mean" without fluff. Average wait time for tech support went from 6 seconds last year, to an average of 9 seconds this year with the influx of new people. I may have trouble adapting to a 9 second wait for tech support. After all, that is a 50% increase in wait time from last year!!! The demonstration he did live showed that, with some use and training, the entire process is fast, solid and dependable. The rumor that Drake is still a DOS program is an urban myth as they reconfigured to a TRUE Windows based program several years ago. If anyone wants to see the STRAIGHT UPFRONT TRUTH about Drake tax software, sign up for one of the free seminars he is doing around the county. It will be worth a plane trip to go see it.

Note to self... Never make Catherine mad at you!!

FTM, are your house, yard and car all painted RED?

Operators are NOT standing by today.

I am learning tons of information about Drake. More as the day goes on.

In this case, there are no fixes for any of the updates.

Are you sure that your house, yard and car are not red?

All the unemployed and welfare recipients I have observed have most of or all of the following: Big Flat Screen TV Full Digital Cable TV or Satelite service Multiple game systems for the kids. Cars much newer than I drive Average 3-5 pets. Smart phones with digital service or I-Pad or I-Phone and/or digital readers. Smoke cigarettes at least a pack a day and usually both adults Lots of empty beer cans, wine bottes and liquor bottles. Our church has been actively distributing food and relief baskets for over 10 years. This is the kind of thing we see when we bring "help" to the "needy" who are on a list provided by the local government assistance department. If you have been on enemployment for 99 weeks, do not have a full time job, and have still have a lifestyle that requires $100K to support, you are showing TOTAL lack of personal responsibility. My town of 13-15K residents is where I have observed this trend skyrocketing since 2009. Too many of the current "needy due to unemployment" bought overpriced and oversized homes. Earned good money for many years and spent it all on lifestyle that were choices instead of necessities. Now when things get tight due to income reduction, they want all us who made wise and money smart decisions in our lives to bail them out. I am not in any way referring to those who cannot provide for themselves. I support many things to help the truly needy and poor. Example: Purchased my home (built in 1890) in 1997. When the housing market bottomed out, my house went down in value by 2%. I did not purchase an overpriced home, but a home with all the space and things that the 5 of us (wife and 3 kids) needed. Other homes in our town dropped as much as 40% in value. Back to personal responsibility for each person's life, livelyhood and decisions. Personal responsibility and the desire to improve life for themselves and their family is what has made America Great. Sadly, we are seeing it rotted out from the inside by government programs that are poorly setup, usually not monitored, and run by bueauracrats that only want to keep their cusshy government jobs and do not care how the money is spent or abiding by the laws. (5th amendment plea by the IRS lady today)

I wonder, if at the next audit I need to assist in, if my client went along and pleaded the 5th, how far would that get him?

Just more amends for me when the notices start rolling in... TT is good for my business every year.

Limit unemployment to 26 weeks as it was first set up. A short term bridge. What happened to personal responsibility? When I was in my early 20s and starting my family, I worked 2 & 3 different jobs to make ends meet. What is wrong with a person working 2 minimum wage jobs to take care of themselves and their family? We have become a nation of needy wimps. Stop paying people not to work, and they will go to work. In the meantime, they can reduce their bloated lifestyle. (more personal responsibility) In our town, there are way too many "Help Wanted" signs for there to be any excuse.

My position is that the man should not have reached 45 without obtaining marketable skills or training. This country has far too many available options for people to make themselves marketable. Smart people develop multiple skill paths. This is part of personal responsibility. People depending upon a non-skilled job provided by the "company" to take care of them all their lives is also a great contributor to this condition. Society has fostered the idea that the "company" or the "government" should guarantee a living for people. This is wrong on so many fronts. Just look at Greece, France and Spain. Personal responsibility is woven throughout the constitution and we need to get back to it.

Taxed, is your house painted red?

12.15 is significant improvement over 12.13 on my standalone. I will not update my home computer to 12.16.

No need to "update" it. That is the theory pushed by the "people who do not want to take the personal responsibility for their lives" take to weaken it or destroy it. It will stand on its own, if followed. Current American Voter Apathy is rotting the country out from the center.

Has anyone installed 12.16 on a standalone WIN 7 system? With the crap we experienced here at the firm, I am totally hesitant to install it on my home standalone system. Any info?

Back to the "Blame Bush" desperation game. The SENATE approves the Director of the IRS.

Powering down totally and rebooting everything after a long absence is the normal thing to do. I expect your problem will go away.

These are no-skill manufacturing jobs at a very successful supplier for a very successful automobile company. Everything I posted, I have heard multiple people say on multiple occasions over the last three years. No exaggeration. If you pay people not to work, then people will not work. This company built a second plant about 50 miles away in Indiana. The plant produces the same parts. The reason for not expanding here was spoken by a company executive. "We have drained this area of all the people what want to work." You need a REAL REALITY CHECK for what is happening in the 50% of Americans. These are my first hand observations and experiences, not something I hear from any media sources. I see the tax returns for many of the people I have described, and know that they are living the words they say.

If you believe that this will work every time, I have a bridge to sell you. NOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

This has been done several times with very little effect on the long term outlook of the SS program. Even if the rates of deduction were doubled, it would only add a few years to the solvency. Major changes on who gets paid and how much must be addressed, otherwise, the system is doomed.

Taxed, tell me why, in a town of 12-13 thousand people, manufacturing companies cannot get enough people to fill positions. More then 2 dozen businesses have help wanted signs, yet, more people are drawing welfare and staying on unemployment than ever in the history of our town. I will give you the answers that I have heard local people say.... "I don't want to work there, they are working 6-7 days a week and that is too much for me." (Been on unemployment 67 weeks so far.) (The company starts workers at $15/hour with overtime for over 40) "That job only pays minimum wage, and I can't live on that." Unemployed 2 years living on welfare, food stamps and other local government subsidies. (no health issues) "I can still draw unemployment for 22 weeks. Why should I work and only make $50/week more than my unemployment?" This disease is ravaging our country. Unemployment is destructive to work ethic. Make it 26 weeks like it was for years, then no more. People who turn down or quit a job should lose any remaining unemployment benefits. Our latest 2 generations have become lazy, apathetic, low information and "entitled" people. This will be the doom of the country. If more money would cure poverty, we should have been poverty free 25 years ago. On the contrary, poverty is a state of mind, not a state of checkbook. One more thing, you need to research the structure of Social Security. The only way it stays solvent is to have more people paying in than are taking out. How much you pay in has nothing to do with the amount of benefit you qualify for, for the rest of your live. Ponzi scheme: Works as long as more people pay in than take out. Our congress over the years have increased benefits, and granted benefits to many groups of people that the system was not intended to support. Social Security WILL go bankrupt until the necessary changes and cuts are made. This is financial fact.