easilyscan

Hilarious! What's an Ethiopian with a penny on top of his head ? A nail.

She's butt ugly either way.

Pam Grier was hot, back before electricity.

Now that you mention it, I'm not sure ? I guess the question would be......... Is what you have left after the government applies taxes to your check, considered non-taxed money ? If I sell those shares for $150, the net would be 15 K. if I decide to put it in a money market account that earns dividends, those dividends are taxed as ordinary income at your standard federal income tax rate. I've had a taxable brokerage account at Fidelity since 1998. Whenever I had extra money from my checks, I'd wire it to Fidelity and invest it. Another example would be State taxes. Back then I was contributing a substantial amount to both my 401(k) and the employee stock purchase program they offered. Hypothetically, let's just say in addition to that, I had an extra $500 per month. I transfer 250 of that to Fidelity spend the other 250 locally. Depending on what you buy, state sales taxes can be pretty high in Minnesota. Liquor is over 10%, prepared food with all the local add-ons, is taxed at 8.40%, gasoline has a state and federal tax, pretty sure the standard sales tax is 6.75%, property taxes, extra fees as they like to call them, attached to my city water and sewer bill to pay for the LED lights they had to have installed throughout the city, that never went away, franchise fees the city charges to any business like charter spectrum, which they pass along to the customers, etc. Let's just say both the state and federal government have a steady tax stream.

That might be a sarcastic question, but since I don't know for sure, I'll answer. Yes. If you bought 100 shares of XYZ Corp. @ $100 on the first trading day of 2026 in a taxable account, & sold them for $150 on the first trading day of 2027, your net would be 15 K, but only the 5K would have capital gains tax applied. Since you only held it 12 months, you'd have to pay short term capital gains on the 5K.. What that rate would be depends on your total taxable income and filing status. If you waited until you'd held that investment at least 18 months, you'd pay a lower long-term capital gain rate.

Never cared for capital gains taxes either. It's the government acting as if they held your hand and told you to buy an investment that ended up doing well so you have to share with them. You save 'after tax' money and invest it, so that money has already been taxed once. Even worse is the idea being floated about taxing unrealized gains.

The Broncos seem 2b magic at home this season. Or it could just be friendly home officiating ? The Redskins had that in the 80s

This https://www.theturntablestore.com/cdn/shop/files/DSC0094_1fba1ec3-4c30-44b9-8347-57c64c94b34c.jpg?v=1744300362&width=1946 I called it the beast. A 400 disc carousel with an on screen display shown on your TV. DVDs or music CDs. It recently died. That would be bad enough, but the door no longer opens so I'll have to rip it apart to remove the approximately 350 discs. I was amazed the first time I used Napster. So much free music!

That would be admirable, but there's a reason they don't teach that. Certain groups would do poorly & it would have to stop. Besides, they don't want kids to be educated in things that matter, social justice issues are far more important to them.

That may very well turn out to be true, but it doesn't really matter. Both sides have played the countries finances recklessly over the past 4 decades. It's going to end badly. Not a matter of if, only a matter of when ?

The beer with a little character. https://www.totalwine.com/dynamic/x1000,24ca/images/2126235802/2126235802-3-fr.png

'Poor' US government finances ? They're only noticing this now ? Our nation's finances have been poor & getting poorer for the past 4 decades.

Just like football. Most people complain it sucks nowadays, yet we continue to watch it

Two men enter, one man leave.