You're in Washington, right? Use Google. The very first hit is this, which tells you how to pay it either online or via paper. Might keep you out of the pokey one day.
The typical American gets more out of SS and Medicare than they put in. Single men who don't pay an average of about $2000 a year in income tax are freeloaders at the federal level. So are single women who pay less than about $5000/yr and married couples who pay less than about $7500/yr. Take a look here for the info - that's the Urban Institute, not the Tea Party.
Next, the famously conservative Ezra Klein points out that the median taxpayer pays 13.9% of their income in federal tax and 11.3% in state and local. That's sourced here, where they point out this person makes about $42k/year. Now, since payroll taxes at the time the article talks about were 4.2% to SS and 1.45% to Medicare (from the employee's perspective), that means that they're paying 5.65% of their income as payroll tax, so the median taxpayer here is paying 8.25% of their income as federal income tax, meaning: $3465. This is muddied significantly by the fact that these figures represent all returns, not all individuals, so married couples' returns are mixed in with single people's returns, but since over half of people are women and quite a lot of those who aren't are married, it's pretty clear that a majority of people are getting a great deal from the federal tax system regardless of how they vote. Just because states don't hand out nearly as much free money (they can't print it) doesn't change that.
He's a lot more likely to come from a very hippie background than anything to do with the Tea Party or NASCAR. You think the people in the infield at Talladega worry about "nervousness, irritability, restlessness, insomnia, headaches, and heart palpitations after caffeine use" or that "fluoride is the reagent for the synthesis of fluorocarbons"? More like "makes me feel like I need another beer" and "the shit that made Freon so expensive".
The average American born in 1980 - all sexes, all races - had a life expectancy of 73.7 years. The average American born in 2010 has a life expectancy of 78.7 years. A 6.7% increase sounds pretty good to me, and that's in a very developed country - it doesn't count the incredibly large improvements in the Third World. Not magnitudes, but not trivial either, especially in a world of 6 billion people.
They don't care about non-scheduled drugs, but you have to show ID to pick up anything at my Walgreens. Oddly enough they don't care if you're not the actual prescribee, though you do have to know their address and maybe SSN - can't recall. They did copy my license info.
In the rural South you can live quite comfortably on under $10k/year. Buy a large freezer, learn to hunt (there's plenty of public land you can use), plant a garden - your grocery bills can be almost nil. Get a cheap used trailer, put a little money in insulation to cut the electricity bill and buy yourself an in-ground storm shelter (absolutely mandatory if you plan to live in a trailer). For a few thousand in up-front costs you can really cut waaaaaaay back. Broadband access can be a problem but 4G is available in a lot of surprisingly remote areas and wireless could be a valid choice if you don't transfer a lot of data.
BTW, totally aside and wishing someone had told me this when I was poor: shop garage sales in nice neighborhoods, especially for clothes. You'll get very high quality stuff for almost nothing. Go to high-end clothing stores and ask them for the contact info for the salesmen that call on them - those guys all sell off their samples at ridiculously low prices, and if you happen to wear a 34-36 waist and a 42-44 chest you're set. If the local Junior League runs a thrift shop, you have hit the gold mine - you can get designer clothing at rock-bottom pricing. Some of it will never have been worn.
I've been in KL in July and it was comparable to the American Southeast. Very hot, very humid. I was OK, because I'm a Southerner, but if you're not used to that climate it would be awful. When I was in high school we had a kid who moved down from New Jersey join the football team. He spent the first week puking his guts out (although in two-a-days in 95+ degree weather with 80+% humidity, he wasn't the only one, just the most consistent one).
OTOH if you could get yourself a place up in the highlands it would be quite pleasant.
As the old saying goes, the two best things about owning your own business are that you only have to work half a day, and you get to pick which twelve hours that is.
Of course it's gambling; it's just not a game of chance. (When you're as bad a liar as I am, it's worse!) If you haven't already, you really ought to check out the third segment of this episode of This American Life. Great story.
It generally takes a cut of every pot (though apparently in serious high-dollar stuff they just rent the table and dealer's services out on an hourly basis). It's entirely possible for everyone at the table to lose money.
Unless you're working in Death Valley or the Dead Sea region, gravity-fed tanks are going to have to provide the same energy input. And if you are in one of those places, you'll have to transport it uphill at some point.
Too bad Geddy's voice is subject to military weapons controls when played at > 80 dB. (I kid, I kid... but I've never met anyone who had a neutral opinion of Rush. Love 'em or hate 'em.)
Not just big state schools; my alma mater didn't have freshman-only dorms for guys (though there were some upperclass-only dorms and some upperclass-only floors within the mixed dorms). There were a lot of options, including an honors dorm. It was a college dorm, but it wasn't a frat house.
I never said the hardcore lefties were hypocritical, just that they were far enough into the movement that ideology would trump any practical considerations. I don't mind the True Believers who won't shop there even though they're poor; it's the people who wax poetic about Costco and keep asking why Wal-Mart can't be more like Costco when they'd never be caught dead in a Wal-Mart even if it were run just like Costco that drive me up a wall.
I also live in a poor part of the South, where the alternative to Wal-Mart is usually either nothing or a really awful place, but the WM is usually open 24/7 and has a certain basic selection of goods available in any store. People around here tend to look on the company a lot more favorably because of that.
Of course most of their stuff is low quality, but it's better quality than what poor people had thirty years ago. I grocery shop there because my experience has been that it's considerably cheaper than Kroger for staples (though I don't buy steaks or cheese there), and that WM quality is usually good enough, because most of the time I'm not planning on abusing something. When I do plan to use something heavily, I shop elsewhere.
Sometimes quantity has its own quality, too - I wear $25 Under Armour T-shirts because they're really comfortable, but there have been times in my life that I would much rather have had five $5 shirts from WM.
Wal-Mart is only considered evil by a few hardcore leftists and a bunch of people who wouldn't be caught dead in there even if it paid high wages to its employees. Actual poor people love Wal-Mart, because it's so much less expensive and so much nicer in terms of quality and selection than the stores that preceded it.
Not that it helps much in your case, but for those who find themselves in a similar situation, file for an extension (six months is automatic) and take a look at your previous year's tax return. Unless you have had a change in income or deductions, just be sure that your withheld tax on your W2 is equal to or greater than your actual tax liability the previous year. If it's not, write the IRS the largest check you can afford to write and send it in. You'll get back any overpayments when you file your return and in the meantime you've almost certainly avoided penalties and interest.
In short, it's your total tax that's really due on April 15. They don't care if the tax return itself comes in later. Hell, TurboTax's e-file screwed up my filing in 2010 and 2011, and it was June of 2012 before the IRS noticed that I hadn't filed a tax return for those years. No problem either time, because while I did owe a little money I had paid it on time each year - so the agency just asked me to fax them copies of the return within a few days. Easy as could be.
I don't consider porn sharing a free speech issue unless you make your own and want to release it for free, but the government arrests you for it. Obviously, you disagree. Just because they're trolls who might very well be guilty of barratry doesn't mean that they're screwing up free speech.
Try reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. People didn't think he'd end up being as big a deal as he did, but he was a long damned way from normal - even the guys who fought with him in WWI said so, at the time.
People who commit murder under the definition of legal insanity are dumb, violent animals; they have been absolved of their culpability for what they do, and thus of their humanity. I've worked at a psychiatric hospital and met them. "Dumb, violent animals" is a pretty accurate description. "Should never leave custody" is another one. They shouldn't be in jail, but they're not fit for society either.
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Er, the very first hit for "washington state use tax", that is.
You're in Washington, right? Use Google. The very first hit is this, which tells you how to pay it either online or via paper. Might keep you out of the pokey one day.
The typical American gets more out of SS and Medicare than they put in. Single men who don't pay an average of about $2000 a year in income tax are freeloaders at the federal level. So are single women who pay less than about $5000/yr and married couples who pay less than about $7500/yr. Take a look here for the info - that's the Urban Institute, not the Tea Party.
Next, the famously conservative Ezra Klein points out that the median taxpayer pays 13.9% of their income in federal tax and 11.3% in state and local. That's sourced here, where they point out this person makes about $42k/year. Now, since payroll taxes at the time the article talks about were 4.2% to SS and 1.45% to Medicare (from the employee's perspective), that means that they're paying 5.65% of their income as payroll tax, so the median taxpayer here is paying 8.25% of their income as federal income tax, meaning: $3465. This is muddied significantly by the fact that these figures represent all returns, not all individuals, so married couples' returns are mixed in with single people's returns, but since over half of people are women and quite a lot of those who aren't are married, it's pretty clear that a majority of people are getting a great deal from the federal tax system regardless of how they vote. Just because states don't hand out nearly as much free money (they can't print it) doesn't change that.
He's a lot more likely to come from a very hippie background than anything to do with the Tea Party or NASCAR. You think the people in the infield at Talladega worry about "nervousness, irritability, restlessness, insomnia, headaches, and heart palpitations after caffeine use" or that "fluoride is the reagent for the synthesis of fluorocarbons"? More like "makes me feel like I need another beer" and "the shit that made Freon so expensive".
The average American born in 1980 - all sexes, all races - had a life expectancy of 73.7 years. The average American born in 2010 has a life expectancy of 78.7 years. A 6.7% increase sounds pretty good to me, and that's in a very developed country - it doesn't count the incredibly large improvements in the Third World. Not magnitudes, but not trivial either, especially in a world of 6 billion people.
They don't care about non-scheduled drugs, but you have to show ID to pick up anything at my Walgreens. Oddly enough they don't care if you're not the actual prescribee, though you do have to know their address and maybe SSN - can't recall. They did copy my license info.
In the rural South you can live quite comfortably on under $10k/year. Buy a large freezer, learn to hunt (there's plenty of public land you can use), plant a garden - your grocery bills can be almost nil. Get a cheap used trailer, put a little money in insulation to cut the electricity bill and buy yourself an in-ground storm shelter (absolutely mandatory if you plan to live in a trailer). For a few thousand in up-front costs you can really cut waaaaaaay back. Broadband access can be a problem but 4G is available in a lot of surprisingly remote areas and wireless could be a valid choice if you don't transfer a lot of data.
BTW, totally aside and wishing someone had told me this when I was poor: shop garage sales in nice neighborhoods, especially for clothes. You'll get very high quality stuff for almost nothing. Go to high-end clothing stores and ask them for the contact info for the salesmen that call on them - those guys all sell off their samples at ridiculously low prices, and if you happen to wear a 34-36 waist and a 42-44 chest you're set. If the local Junior League runs a thrift shop, you have hit the gold mine - you can get designer clothing at rock-bottom pricing. Some of it will never have been worn.
I've been in KL in July and it was comparable to the American Southeast. Very hot, very humid. I was OK, because I'm a Southerner, but if you're not used to that climate it would be awful. When I was in high school we had a kid who moved down from New Jersey join the football team. He spent the first week puking his guts out (although in two-a-days in 95+ degree weather with 80+% humidity, he wasn't the only one, just the most consistent one).
OTOH if you could get yourself a place up in the highlands it would be quite pleasant.
As the old saying goes, the two best things about owning your own business are that you only have to work half a day, and you get to pick which twelve hours that is.
Of course it's gambling; it's just not a game of chance. (When you're as bad a liar as I am, it's worse!) If you haven't already, you really ought to check out the third segment of this episode of This American Life. Great story.
Fair point. I didn't realize the rake was that small (can't stand gambling myself).
It generally takes a cut of every pot (though apparently in serious high-dollar stuff they just rent the table and dealer's services out on an hourly basis). It's entirely possible for everyone at the table to lose money.
Unless you're working in Death Valley or the Dead Sea region, gravity-fed tanks are going to have to provide the same energy input. And if you are in one of those places, you'll have to transport it uphill at some point.
Too bad Geddy's voice is subject to military weapons controls when played at > 80 dB. (I kid, I kid... but I've never met anyone who had a neutral opinion of Rush. Love 'em or hate 'em.)
Not just big state schools; my alma mater didn't have freshman-only dorms for guys (though there were some upperclass-only dorms and some upperclass-only floors within the mixed dorms). There were a lot of options, including an honors dorm. It was a college dorm, but it wasn't a frat house.
Trains build up in noise slowly; Jake brakes just startle the hell out of you.
I never said the hardcore lefties were hypocritical, just that they were far enough into the movement that ideology would trump any practical considerations. I don't mind the True Believers who won't shop there even though they're poor; it's the people who wax poetic about Costco and keep asking why Wal-Mart can't be more like Costco when they'd never be caught dead in a Wal-Mart even if it were run just like Costco that drive me up a wall.
I also live in a poor part of the South, where the alternative to Wal-Mart is usually either nothing or a really awful place, but the WM is usually open 24/7 and has a certain basic selection of goods available in any store. People around here tend to look on the company a lot more favorably because of that.
Problem in Africa: electricity to run them. The cities are sorta modern, but in the bush...
Of course most of their stuff is low quality, but it's better quality than what poor people had thirty years ago. I grocery shop there because my experience has been that it's considerably cheaper than Kroger for staples (though I don't buy steaks or cheese there), and that WM quality is usually good enough, because most of the time I'm not planning on abusing something. When I do plan to use something heavily, I shop elsewhere.
Sometimes quantity has its own quality, too - I wear $25 Under Armour T-shirts because they're really comfortable, but there have been times in my life that I would much rather have had five $5 shirts from WM.
Wal-Mart is only considered evil by a few hardcore leftists and a bunch of people who wouldn't be caught dead in there even if it paid high wages to its employees. Actual poor people love Wal-Mart, because it's so much less expensive and so much nicer in terms of quality and selection than the stores that preceded it.
Not that it helps much in your case, but for those who find themselves in a similar situation, file for an extension (six months is automatic) and take a look at your previous year's tax return. Unless you have had a change in income or deductions, just be sure that your withheld tax on your W2 is equal to or greater than your actual tax liability the previous year. If it's not, write the IRS the largest check you can afford to write and send it in. You'll get back any overpayments when you file your return and in the meantime you've almost certainly avoided penalties and interest.
In short, it's your total tax that's really due on April 15. They don't care if the tax return itself comes in later. Hell, TurboTax's e-file screwed up my filing in 2010 and 2011, and it was June of 2012 before the IRS noticed that I hadn't filed a tax return for those years. No problem either time, because while I did owe a little money I had paid it on time each year - so the agency just asked me to fax them copies of the return within a few days. Easy as could be.
I don't consider porn sharing a free speech issue unless you make your own and want to release it for free, but the government arrests you for it. Obviously, you disagree. Just because they're trolls who might very well be guilty of barratry doesn't mean that they're screwing up free speech.
Try reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. People didn't think he'd end up being as big a deal as he did, but he was a long damned way from normal - even the guys who fought with him in WWI said so, at the time.
Mississippi, although it's been about thirty years.
People who commit murder under the definition of legal insanity are dumb, violent animals; they have been absolved of their culpability for what they do, and thus of their humanity. I've worked at a psychiatric hospital and met them. "Dumb, violent animals" is a pretty accurate description. "Should never leave custody" is another one. They shouldn't be in jail, but they're not fit for society either.