• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

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700,000 ballots in Maricopa County have issues as identified during the recent audit and canvassing of the county. These issues are not likely mutually exclusive but give a very good indication that the 2020 Election in Arizona was full of hundreds of thousands of invalid ballots.


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All of his children need to go back to work. This isn’t about them, it’s about MAGA. I’m not for a DJT Jr or Ivanka ticket. Call me crazy, but let’s get BDD elected again and then we can debate them on their merits. The love for his children to be president is really strange.
I'm not even thinking about 1 of them being POTUS right now, just curious as to where she disappeared to. It's just odd to me that I haven't heard a peep from her in 10 months. Jr still has tweets posted here for instance. 0 from Ivanka
 
This is what I do. I pay no estimated taxes throughout the year for my business. I stay in contact with my CPA regularly and by 12/31 we know what kind of expense we need to come up with in order to get me down to whatever I feel like paying in taxes. I usually get it down to 1,000-3,000.

It is true that a lot of business people don’t pay what would be considered their fair share. However, they set up loop holes and there is so much gray area that a smart person with a good CPA will never pay what they should. I should pay about 25-30% but I usually pay roughly 3-5%. I’ve gotten substantial tax returns as well despite having what I’ve mentioned above.
I'm not following how exactly this works but I definitely want to understand. Can someone explain in simple man terms? I'd genuinely like to know how to go from owing 25-30% to only paying 3-5%. No sarc
 
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The long-term danger is that today’s irresponsible government borrowing is set to collide with 74 million baby boomers retiring into Social Security and Medicare systems that are projected by the Congressional Budget Office to run a $112 trillion cash shortfall over the next three decades, including the resulting budget interest costs.

All this debt is projected to make interest the largest item in the federal budget, consuming nearly half of all annual tax revenues within three decades. And these figures assume that interest rates still remain comparatively low. If rates exceed the CBO projections by even just one percentage point, it would add $30 trillion in interest costs over 30 years.

Yep, it costs nothing
 
New applications for jobless benefits rose for the third consecutive week after the expiration of federal pandemic unemployment aid earlier this month, according to data released Thursday by the Labor Department.

Seasonally adjusted initial claims for unemployment insurance totaled 362,000 in the week ending Sept. 25, a gain of 11,000 applications from the previous week’s total of 351,000.

Claims fell slightly without seasonal adjustments, declining to 298,255 before the Labor Department factored in an expected decline of 18,940 applications.

Policymakers were hopeful that the labor market would be able to quickly absorb the nearly 11 million Americans who lost federal unemployment benefits when they lapsed Sept. 6.

The number of Americans on some form of jobless aid plummeted from 11.2 million during the first week of September to roughly 5 million in the week ending Sept. 11, a decline of 6.2 million.

The drop was almost entirely driven by the expiration of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), two pandemic jobless aid programs, while 277,000 more Americans enrolled in state jobless aid programs.

But despite a record level of job openings, the labor market has not shown the swift improvement expected by some, but not all economists. LINK
 
New applications for jobless benefits rose for the third consecutive week after the expiration of federal pandemic unemployment aid earlier this month, according to data released Thursday by the Labor Department.

Seasonally adjusted initial claims for unemployment insurance totaled 362,000 in the week ending Sept. 25, a gain of 11,000 applications from the previous week’s total of 351,000.

Claims fell slightly without seasonal adjustments, declining to 298,255 before the Labor Department factored in an expected decline of 18,940 applications.

Policymakers were hopeful that the labor market would be able to quickly absorb the nearly 11 million Americans who lost federal unemployment benefits when they lapsed Sept. 6.

The number of Americans on some form of jobless aid plummeted from 11.2 million during the first week of September to roughly 5 million in the week ending Sept. 11, a decline of 6.2 million.

The drop was almost entirely driven by the expiration of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), two pandemic jobless aid programs, while 277,000 more Americans enrolled in state jobless aid programs.

But despite a record level of job openings, the labor market has not shown the swift improvement expected by some, but not all economists. LINK

Went to the comments section from that link, holey shit the excuses from some people
 
It’s kinda funny you say this because I had this exact conversation with a client today. They wanted to buy 10 vehicles for their field engineers to use and discontinue their reimbursement of mileage. Spend about $300k on vehicles vs reimbursing $30k each year. I told them that if that’s what they wanted to do from a business perspective then sure, make sure to do it before year end. But if they’re just buying the cars to save taxes, then they’re spending $300k in cash to save $100k in taxes. A losing scenario from a cash perspective. Nobody likes to pay taxes but sometimes it is the best fiscal decision.


It’s actually better for companies to let people drive their personal vehicles and reimburse. It never works out for the employee. Our company gives $1,000 per month. Most drive over 40,000 miles a year and it requires a 4x4… I negotiated to drive company vehicle or I wouldn’t take the position. That makes the company cover all costs associated with repairs and maintenance.

There is a reason companies want folks to drive their own vehicle.
 




They’ve also been doing this:


Nice fucking house. Great taste just like her daddy.
 

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