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  2. Posted

    And white I recommend professional advisors (especially fee only), I still recommend everyone learn as much as possible about your investments and goals, understand your investment, risk, personal risk tolerance, and do your own research. Even if you hire a professional, you will always be your own best advocate.

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    17 minutes ago, Rob0115 said:

    Easy, I posted what I believed best and gave some thoughts.  Then realized I'm in no position to advise someone because that's not what I do, and I don't know anything about his situation.  The original post also said take this advice for what you paid for it and seek the help of a professional advisor.  After ruminating on it for a bit I though the only reasonable bit was to ask a pro for help.  

     

    My second post explained why I retracted my thoughts.  

    This probably goes for most of us. I've read many of his posts and I think the Chef is smart enough to know that he shouldn't make critical investment ( or any life decisions) based solely on feedback from an internet gun forum. This is just a place to get ideas and experience of others.

    Standard disclaimers apply. YMMV

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    53 minutes ago, Bklynracer said:

    So you can steal $900 without being arrested, so I wonder if there's a limit to what you need to claim.

    Questions

    Is it net amount per looting or gross?

    is it the value of price tag or what you hocked it for?

    Can you itemize?

    Can you deduct Masks, Hammer, getaway car, fuel.

    Can you file jointly if you loot together ?

    Is there a hotline number to help eith questions.

    I am not an accountant, but I think the IRS is just going look at your net profit.  As always, one must keep good records and save the receipts, but any valid business expense should be deductible, including mileage to drive to/from the "job site."

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    26 minutes ago, Sniper said:

    Yeah, I thought that input method was a little weird too, but it must keep the bad guys out.

    For someone who has some idle cash sitting around or has some money parked in Money Markets, this current return on the I bonds can make some coin in the near future.

    They used to send you a little card with a 2d matrix of letters. Every time you login they'd ask for the value of an arbitrary cell (they'd give you the row and column) of that matrix. Basically was an early authenticator.

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    Same with profits from illegal activities.  Still taxable, Capone found out the hard way. I suppose they could deduct the cost of lock picks, guns, etc as business expenses?:

    "By the late 1920s, Capone grossed about $70 million annually from liquor, prostitution, loan sharking, extortion, slot machines, and gambling. Unfortunately, he failed to report his earnings. While he could intimidate and bribe the Chicago police, Capone could not control the U.S. Treasury Department. Indicted for federal income tax evasion in June 1931, he was convicted in October. Capone received a sentence of eleven years in prison"

    https://www.encyclopedia.com/law/educational-magazines/gangster-al-capone-charged-income-tax-violations

     

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    I've used Treasury direct for years and just opened a new account fire the Mrs.  The website is pretty basic, but very easy to use.  I am not crazy about the password input method (I guess it's to foil keystroke loggers? but can't cut/paste into it).

    And in low inflation environment (like we've had since 2008) it's guaranteed to double if held for the 20 year maturity. Which translates to about 3.5% annual guaranteed.

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    31 minutes ago, Displaced Texan said:

    Austin has always been the ‘special snowflake’ of Texas. 
    The redeeming part of Austin was always the music scene (Austin City Limits)and all the eclectic bars and restaurants. 
     

    In the past several years, it’s really gone to shit. The homeless population has exploded, and it’s become ‘East San Francisco’. 
    The city govt has really worked hard to fuck up what used to make Austin fun. And they keep working to make it even more fucked up. Like many cities, they have really turned their back on law enforcement, which has led to most of the problems Austin is experiencing. 
    The residents are starting to push back though…that’s a good sign. 

    Sounds like what's happened to my hometown Seattle.  I was in a work trip to Bremerton in 2019 and took the ferry over to wander around Seattle one afternoon, could not believe what I saw. Although I must say that the "Denny regrade" area, where Amazon has taken over is actually better than it has been since there 1960s. But Seattle has only gotten worse since 2019. Very sad.

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    16 minutes ago, YankeeSC said:

    Good luck with that.

    I don't disagree with the sentiment.  But at least we have legal recourse and semblance of the rule of law... At least in theory if not always in practice. And I do believe and still have a little faith that the right ruling from SCOTUS will change things in NJ-but I'm sure the state will find loopholes.  My answer to the original question of this topic is that we can legally carry in NJ, but the state doesn't recognize it (as you say, good luck with that).

    I believe we're moving in the right direction, and we're still way better off than most other nations, even in NJ.

    It's not perfect, but it's more perfect. 

     

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    On 10/3/2021 at 10:59 PM, 1LtCAP said:

    yaknow? for some reason that is the main episode of twilight zone that sticks in my head. the other one is the ugly doctors/nurses episode

     i hadn't thought of eye surgery...but i'm also kinda afraid of it......

     

    The Obsolete man, another great episode with superb performance by Burgess Meredith.

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    2 hours ago, siderman said:

     His administration has some other guns to worry about now. Actually that's assuming they care , so nevermind.

    Sad but true. If we don't see major reversals in the midterm and next presidential election, would be a clear sign that our elections are definitely rigged.

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    "Justice Department has sought to crack down on illegal firearms, launching a firearms trafficking task force this summer to trace the origins of guns used to commit crimes."

    Yeah, maybe  Garland Justice could do a bunch of straw sales at Arizona gun shows, so they can track the movement of the arms across the border. Fast and Furious?

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  22. Posted

    3 hours ago, samiam said:

    I feel a huge sense of gratitude to Mitch McConnell for preventing that festering f***stick Garland from getting Supreme Court confirmation. While Garland can and will manage to screw some things up for gun owners as AG for four years, that is a drop in the bucket compared to the damage he would have inflicted from a lifetime perch on the SCOTUS bench...

    Yep, say what you will about Cocaine Mitch, but thank God he was in there to stand against Merrick.

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    2 hours ago, 15636215 said:

    delta variant is bullshit! We have over 1 million ILLEGALS shipped all over the USA without our knowledge!  Estimates over 10% are ill with some form of covid [really china's attack on the US] Our potus will not acknowledge this attack because he is owned by china!

    Next is nj on lockdown again! You know the gopher will do it!!

    I know it probably won't make much difference, but do you think election year might restrain Murphy lockdown?

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