When did NH get an income tax? The rules are simple. Your state credits you on taxes paid to another state. However if the other state has a higher tax rate... you lose.
Bitterness may be unavoidable. I try not to be. I too have been laid off a couple of times in my career.
Lifelong employment will not happen again unless you own the company. So remember to keep your resume and (portfolio, if it helps your job) up to date. Not on your work computer.
Save your money and keep your skills sharp. You will survive layoffs. You will also survive these sermons.
There are also some technical schools with evening programs. These pay fairly well (figure the pay against the preparation time) and it give you a whole new set of contacts.
You might even be able to recruit some talented students for your own company.
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal on-line (sorry a subscription service) had an article on this very subject. They also had Mr. Anderson, the Best Buy CEO congratulating himself on being able to pigeon hole customers, Affluent Men, Affluent Mothers, Small Business owners and early adopters. They steer these people to the big ticket items.
I don't know what stores he was talking about, but my local store seems to specialize in ignoring customers like me (I fit three of the categories), feigning ignorance about products, and opening boxes before one leaves the store so that if the item is a gift, it's return is subject to the restocking fee.
There's nothing wrong with aiming toward the big spenders, but remember someday the young couple on a tight budget will be the people with a lot of cash. They will remember how they were treated when they were poor.
Best Buy is always the last place I would shop for anything.
The networks have no right to call what they do "journalism" Watch a network newscast. It is all features. You will get about 30 seconds devoted to the financial markets.
NBC does a five minute story and calls it "In depth tonight" The story of a mismanaged government program and it's the fleecing of America. No two sides, just one.
The rest of the broadcast is "Health news", a heart wrenching story or two and ten minutes of commercials.
Oh and an update on how bad things are in Iraq. All done with the editorial slant they want you to see.
Oh, and our department of arbitrary deadlines said you must make the change over the long weekend. No you won't receive extra time off or other compensations.
The problem with any tax - in any country - is that the money often gets diverted to other purposes. Massachusetts instituted an additional tax on gasoline a some years back. The idea was that the money would pay for road and bridge maintenance. (Road contractors were the biggest supporters).
Needless to say, the money went to other places. Soon they will want to add a gasoline tax to pay for what was already supposed to be covered.
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When did NH get an income tax?
The rules are simple. Your state credits you on taxes paid to another state. However if the other state has a higher tax rate... you lose.
The fires were set to the earthquake damaged buildings. Few had earthquake insurance but most had fire insurance.
No one got rich - they rebuilt.
Bitterness may be unavoidable. I try not to be. I too have been laid off a couple of times in my career.
Lifelong employment will not happen again unless you own the company.
So remember to keep your resume and (portfolio, if it helps your job) up to date. Not on your work computer.
Save your money and keep your skills sharp. You will survive layoffs. You will also survive these sermons.
Best of luck former AOLers
There are also some technical schools with evening programs. These pay fairly well (figure the pay against the preparation time) and it give you a whole new set of contacts.
You might even be able to recruit some talented students for your own company.
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal on-line (sorry a subscription service) had an article on this very subject. They also had Mr. Anderson, the Best Buy CEO congratulating himself on being able to pigeon hole customers, Affluent Men, Affluent Mothers, Small Business owners and early adopters. They steer these people to the big ticket items.
I don't know what stores he was talking about, but my local store seems to specialize in ignoring customers like me (I fit three of the categories), feigning ignorance about products, and opening boxes before one leaves the store so that if the item is a gift, it's return is subject to the restocking fee.
There's nothing wrong with aiming toward the big spenders, but remember someday the young couple on a tight budget will be the people with a lot of cash. They will remember how they were treated when they were poor.
Best Buy is always the last place I would shop for anything.
The networks have no right to call what they do "journalism" Watch a network newscast. It is all features. You will get about 30 seconds devoted to the financial markets.
NBC does a five minute story and calls it "In depth tonight"
The story of a mismanaged government program and it's the fleecing of America. No two sides, just one.
The rest of the broadcast is "Health news", a heart wrenching story or two and ten minutes of commercials.
Oh and an update on how bad things are in Iraq. All done with the editorial slant they want you to see.
Didn't Einstein patent a refrigeration unit based on these principals? (Scientific America Jan 199)
Oh, and our department of arbitrary deadlines said you must make the change over the long weekend. No you won't receive extra time off or other compensations.
The problem with any tax - in any country - is that the money often gets diverted to other purposes. Massachusetts instituted an additional tax on gasoline a some years back. The idea was that the money would pay for road and bridge maintenance. (Road contractors were the biggest supporters).
Needless to say, the money went to other places. Soon they will want to add a gasoline tax to pay for what was already supposed to be covered.
For the most part if you ignore them they go away.
If you make a big deal about it, the perps may feel you are worth attacking.
If it seems really serious and you are a government contractor, contact the appropriate agency.