Posts by watson

(me included).. i detuct for mortgage interest on my first home, and if i buy a second home or anything that resembles a second home, i can deduct the interest on that as well.

if i can afford a second home, recreational vehicle, etc., why would i be given a tax break?.

Tax Subsidizing the American Consumer

by watson in

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it's interesting to me how much of our taxes go to subsidizing the great american consumer.

(me included).. i detuct for mortgage interest on my first home, and if i buy a second home or anything that resembles a second home, i can deduct the interest on that as well.

if i can afford a second home, recreational vehicle, etc., why would i be given a tax break?.

So basically what is being said is that we will need to cut services, etc., so that I (the consumer) can buy more 2nd homes? I have been looking at my personal financial situation and I can honestly say that whether or not I can deduct the interest on a second home or recreational vehicle isn't going to keep me from buying it. Seems like a small sacrafice. I wonder what effect removing this 2nd deduction would have on us.

I know one thing, that deduction really helped the big housing boom, that's for sure. How's that going, anyway?

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Tax Subsidizing the American Consumer

by watson in

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it's interesting to me how much of our taxes go to subsidizing the great american consumer.

(me included).. i detuct for mortgage interest on my first home, and if i buy a second home or anything that resembles a second home, i can deduct the interest on that as well.

if i can afford a second home, recreational vehicle, etc., why would i be given a tax break?.

watson

Do you feel that we can pull our future generations out of this hole, but cutting spending? Isn't NOT allowing tax deductions on optional "conumer" benefits a way to cut spending?

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It's Really Just a Social Club

by Eiben Scrood in

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at least for many..... i remember looking around at meetings and so many in the audience seemed to be in another world.

people would get up and talk at the back shamelessly.

meetings were a good opportunity to make plans with friends.

watson

For me though, even as I went through some years just like them, plodding along with the program, when I finally started reaching out, exerting myself to do what I thought was necessary to be faithful, that's when it started to unravel. It was when I actually took it serious and tried to separate myself from the pretenders that I saw through it. It didn't stand up to the test.

Undercover, this is an important comment. Almost exactly what happened to me, and many, many others, I suspect.

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Tax Subsidizing the American Consumer

by watson in

jw
friends

it's interesting to me how much of our taxes go to subsidizing the great american consumer.

(me included).. i detuct for mortgage interest on my first home, and if i buy a second home or anything that resembles a second home, i can deduct the interest on that as well.

if i can afford a second home, recreational vehicle, etc., why would i be given a tax break?.

watson

It's interesting to me how much of our taxes go to subsidizing the great American Consumer. (Me included).

I detuct for mortgage interest on my first home, and if I buy a second home or anything that resembles a second home, I can deduct the interest on that as well. If I can afford a second home, recreational vehicle, etc., why would I be given a tax break?

Just wondering how much we could affect our growing deficits if subsidization was really looked at critically. (There is talk)

May be too close to the weekend for a topic like this, but hey!!

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Why did "Back Calls" change to "Return Visits"?

by donuthole in

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does anyone remember the rationale that was used in rebranding "back calls" as "return visits"?.

while on the subject does anyone else remember any theocratic name changes like,.

district assembly to district convention.

watson

"Return Visit" is much more business like.

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They keep pushing and pushing for the rank and file to do more and more. Dec 15 WT

by life is to short in

they are causing mental problems by pushing and pushing the ones in to do more and more and more.. the dec 15th wt on page 7 says .

"you have a document that needs a certain person's attention by the end of the day.

you mare it urgent!

watson

The pressure may be there, but I notice, based on my facebook friends, that they are finding new and better ways to blow off steam....

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My Dad's passing

by happyexjw in

quite a while ago i wrote about my dad who has been living with prostate cancer for 13 years with secondry bone cancer for the last 2 years.

we all thought he was going to leave us back in april when he had a bad chest infection.

i was talking about wanting to be able to say some words at his funeral.