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Screwed yet again on student loans.

I finally got them out of default last year and was paying them onetime for most of the year. You would think I would qualify for the interest paid on student loan deduction right? Nope, Turbo Tax told me I made too much money to qualify for the federal deduction for interest paid on student loans but might still qualify for a state deduction.

Because I don't own a home, there is pretty much no deductions I can make. Getting shit back.

Got a nice tease though. Because I changed business units at work this year, I got 2 sperate W2's. Enter the first one for the first 9 months of the year and it said I was getting a little over $2700 back in federal income tax. Entered the second and it dropped me down to $430 🤬
 
Listen, if America doesn't wake up to the fact that these laws are meant to punish people not quite white enough, then I don't know what to tell you. I'm mixed race and there's not a fucking chance in hell I'm ever going to the States again, I WILL be rounded up because my skin tone doesn't match the "Okay/Not Okay" colour swatch and I'm sorry but dealing with the Gestapo is not on my wish list.

Gone from "Fight the Nazis" to "Become the Nazis" in less than 100 years. Quite frankly even if things get better I don't want to deal with a country that willingly wanted this.
 
ayayrawn said:
It really couldn't be more obvious. Don't know how anybody could deny it. The neurodivergent excuse is, frankly, insulting.

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The one thing I have read that I tend to agree with is I don’t think he is a Nazi supporter in the sense that like he thinks Hitler is super cool or whatever. I think that Musk is a sociopath and narcissist and contrarian and a 4/Chan Edgelord. So while I think he was definitely doing the Roman salute and doing it knowingly, I don’t think the reason was to show solidarity with Nazis (though I definitely think he is a white supremacist) but more to score internet points with other basement dwelling trolls. He is just arrogant enough to attempt this type of thing in real life.

The reasoning at this point is moot, he did it and will probably cost himself millions of dollars…which he has likely already recouped hundreds of time over since Capitalism is so fucked.
 
Speaking of lying in beds, my brother in law had appendix surgery yesterday and his hospital roommate has Fox News on the room TV. It's driving him crazy. He's been texting things he's hearing. Like, Trump appointed millionaires that won't take salaries, they will be working solely for the love of the country.
 
ranbalam said:
Speaking of lying in beds, my brother in law had appendix surgery yesterday and his hospital roommate has Fox News on the room TV. It's driving him crazy. He's been texting things he's hearing. Like, Trump appointed millionaires that won't take salaries, they will be working solely for the love of the country.
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Yes, their selfless tax cuts will totally not make them multiple thousands of times more money than any government would ever conceivably pay them as a salary!
 
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The more I'm looking at this, the more I realize this is being set up like the mafia...
Dismantling every government program...privatize it and the cronies skim off the top and kick money up the chain, likely laundered through several different companies. Dismantling FEMA kind of solidifies this in my mind, it's all going to be outsourced to "contractors" who will skim from that aid and provide almost nothing in return.

It all makes sense since Trumps mentor was basically a mob fixer.
 
bdrummond said:
The more I'm looking at this, the more I realize this is being set up like the mafia...
Dismantling every government program...privatize it and the cronies skim off the top and kick money up the chain, likely laundered through several different companies. Dismantling FEMA kind of solidifies this in my mind, it's all going to be outsourced to "contractors" who will skim from that aid and provide almost nothing in return.

It all makes sense since Trumps mentor was basically a mob fixer.
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That’s how Russia’s oligarchy works.

The FEMA thing sucks because what will happen is the Blue States will be responsible and set aside money for Natural Disasters while the Red States won’t save shit and the next time there is hurricane in Florida, the federal government will bail them out. Reps and Senators from blue states will be called upon to do the right thing and they will do it but the next time there is a Wild Fire on California senators and reps from Alabama and Tennessee will tell them to fuck off and use their own money.

Only one party has a constituency that has empathy and is expected to uphold our social contracts while the other side isn’t expected to do shit for the greater good.
 
bdrummond said:
The more I'm looking at this, the more I realize this is being set up like the mafia...
Dismantling every government program...privatize it and the cronies skim off the top and kick money up the chain, likely laundered through several different companies. Dismantling FEMA kind of solidifies this in my mind, it's all going to be outsourced to "contractors" who will skim from that aid and provide almost nothing in return.

It all makes sense since Trumps mentor was basically a mob fixer.
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An interesting timeline.

I have lived in the NY metro area my entire life, went to college in Manhattan in the 80's, so I knew from then what a POS mobster the turmeric tyrant is.

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