I stopped buying from online retailers.
The number one reason is the BOE (CA) sent me a slew of requests to register and tax file number returns. I'm a small biz owner. I did file the E returns under protest even though I did not meet the criteria for having to file.
#2, maybe we need to support our local economy and not drain the revenue from our communities.
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Wesley Bawa, many of those who are still solvent are leaving and so are we. We see no end to the downward trend and in fact we believe that it is going to get much much worse. So at our age (my husband and I are in our 50s) we are leaving, not only reason for leaving our sake but that of our children. So many other professionals that we know of have already Read More
Actually, I never, ever said that all Chinese were the same. Ms. Chua did that, but I didn't. However, there are numerous examples of the characteristics of culture she describes in her parenting, and some of those examples are well known. Read Lang Lang's book where he describes his father telling him to commit suicide. Yo Yo Ma's father was the same and consequently Read More
Apple has the customer's support.
Steve Jobs is a magnetic intj personality and a towering hero of modern technology; no company, politician or judge would like to upset the public by ruling against Apple or its products. Sure, Google or Microsoft may have a legal loophole; but they have no defence against the personality of Steve Jobs. Steve, singularly, can Read More
Nothing's difficult about asking; the difficult part is accepting their answers as having any validity at all. What parent of a newborn ever thought their child was anything less than perfect? How do you even propose how to keep a guy interested determine whether a six-month old baby is autistic? And since autism is not normally identifiable at such an age, Read More
@ Henry
In general, career congressional staffers who've worked on tax policy matters have a lot more intrinsic and extrinsic motivation knowledge of the subject matter than anyone other than the highly specialized tax lawyer-lobbyists who swarm all over the Hill to influence policy and practice on behalf of their clients.
Having worked with a number of lobbying Read More
Jose,
Judge away. It falls on deaf ears. The wealthi need a new jobest cohort of humans in the history of the Earth is the current generation of American seniors.
Pangea,
I know of no process that allows you or anyone to shuffle together 300 million distict American moral characters to get one national one. If you think you can do this with words and be persuasive, Read More
I have a similar scary situation in the Bay Area. In early 2009 Got a letter from JPMC freezing my LOC based on a computer based valuation. But the letter gave me the right to solicit a professional performance appraisal methods from an appraiser of their choice. If the appraisal came in at a specified threshold that met the bank's loan to value requirements, Read More
Gabriela,
Note my comment below and get more familiar with the Second Law of Thermodynamics as to how possible it is going to be to replace petroleum with anything else that has an overall lower carbon or other greenhouse gas footprint.
Any first year physics course should get you through.
Carbon Dioxide has been chosen as the villain for only one reason; it Read More
Touche, John. I would add that after the the Carter crises, we did have leadership characteristics with enough foresight and understanding to correct the wrongs. What most people fail to understand is that the current leadership under Soros really does want to 'break' our system in order to gain personal power, and install Marxist/Liberation Theology governance. Read More