Catherine

My husband, Doug, frequently comes up with outrageous, convoluted puns at dinner time. However, yesterday he assaulted us with this one, at -breakfast-. Gwen (younger daughter) had received a bottle of a new (to us) soda, called "Ting". It's from Jamaica, and is grapefruit juice based; it's actually very good. It has a sharp edge very different from the sicky-sweet of most sodas. Doug told us that if it was mixed with an artificial orange drink and then given to an Australian marsupial steel drummer, we would have a "Ting Tang Wallaby Bing-Bang". And somehow, we let him live.... Yes, you may admire our restraint. Catherine

Hope you have a VERY :bday:

Hope you have a VERY :bday:

My younger daughter and I toured the gardens at the state capitol building when we were there before our fiddle camp in '07. the rose gardens were glorious! And the trees -- WOW; those were amazing!

Thank you, taxbilly!

I had one of those in Worcester and it was -beautiful- with a glorious scent. I still miss it. We have three climbers (two deep red, one pale pink) with mild-to-moderate scent and repeat bloom. But the vines grow SO tall that they get stuck in the eaves of the house. And I cut them back to knee-level every spring. There's also an unnamed dark pink shrub with a sweet scent. It also got cut to about knee level this spring but is now about 8 feet tall. None of our roses do well indoors, though. The scent fades within a half hour to hour and a half. The petals stay for several days, though, so I guess that glass (vase?) is half-full.

No, not my tax position, but the -legistlative- position that was taken when AMT was passed. It has been subverted and is now being used as a tool for monetary extraction from those from whom it was never intended to affect, simply because a bunch of gutless nincompoops see a way to weasel more money out of folks without having to take a stand. I do not now nor have I every supported AMT. I have NO problem with diverging opinions. But I DO have a problem with name-calling and with twisting another's words to form a meaning that is clearly NOT what was intended. jainen does both, frequently. One of my dearest friends is an out-and-out socialist. We have very lively discussions and email interchanges. And neither of us EVER call the other names. And that, JohnH, is what I was referring to. Not jainen's opinions. But the way he mis-states other's words, and that he sometimes name-calls. jainen -- you have the right to ANY opinion, and to express that opinion. But express YOUR opinion, please. And I'd love to talk about roses some time. You've mentioned yours a number of times, but not what types you have or whether you look for scent, color, shape, size, etc. I have three climbers that keep trying to take over the house, and one shrub that in the last few years seems to be imitating the climbers.

This advice would not apply to ancient completed returns but just to other client documents? Such as? I keep NO original docs, but I do have notes, a few organizers (mainly blank, which is why I pretty much don't use them), and sometimes faxes of originals. So I don't see why I should contact a client before shredding -my- copy of tax returns in the client's possession (especially when I still have pdf's of all of them).

I got the email as well. Like Don in Upstate NY, I last got a Taxslayer demo 4-5 years ago but get multiple calls/year and loads of emails from them still. The relentless marketing, if nothing else, turned me off their products permanently.

Thanks, KC. I've had a couple of folks already who needed warnings about state estate tax. And the map is -great-.

Hope you have a VERY :bday:

Excellent; thank you!

jainen, I cannot believe that you think that I am making Marxist arguments. You -must- be willfully misconstruing my remarks, as I can see NO way to accidentally do so. I believe that ALL income taxes are diametrically opposed to the intent of the Founders, and they instituted the government to very specifically NOT tax income. Part of the reason for this was to "starve" the Federal government to keep it from encroaching on the rights of the states and the people, partly because of the disincentive to strive and achieve it becomes over time. MOST of what the Federal government does today is NOT in their purview; they have taken over the work of the states and the people and usurped powers they were very specifically NOT to have. This encroachment has been going on for over a hundred years now. I have studied the Marxist systems - both in theory and as they exist in the real world - extensively. They do NOT work. They never WILL work. The essence of Marxism is central CONTROL of ALL aspects of the lives of the people. The essence of the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution is individual FREEDOM and individual RESPONSIBILITY. The only people who will willfully choose the former are those who believe that the control and associated power will be theirs to wield. With every post you make, I understand more why you have been banned from other fora.

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Yay, Tom!!

Yay Marilyn!!! :lol:

You're missing the point. The indexing lacking in AMT is the indexing for INFLATION -- it is NOT fair that a tax originally meant to make sure "rich" folks paid -something- ends up hitting middle-income people, for whom it was NEVER intended, hard. But the gutless weasels in Washington don't have the testicular fortitude to fix it, because it brings in cash. So we get the annual "patches" (to stick another temporary finger in a very leaky dike) that are put in only so they keep from getting run out of their home towns on a rail. And I support the FairTax, not a flat tax. I hear railing every year from Massachusetts taxpayers about the unfairness of the state income tax. I always point out that it's a flat tax.

Hope you had a HAUNTEDLY :bday:

Hope you had a HAUNTEDLY :bday:

Hope you all have a ghoulish day!!! :o

Hope you have a VERY :bday:

Hope you have a VERY :bday:

Hope you have a VERY :bday:

Very simple. They also ask for corrected forms and schedules to be appended. Many if not most folks trying this on their own will miss that bit. And we'll end up with new clients after their self-prepared 1040X is rejected.

Jeeezel louisel and yikes!!! Very impressive, KC, but this picture (and accompanying story) did -not- make me smile. But I may send it all on to friends who live west of Brisbane.... Catherine