Last week I blogged about our home repairs blowing the budget.  But I also mentioned the tax credits were incentivizing me big time.  Then I realized I might want to explain why the tax breaks were so awesome.
The Federal Tax Credits for Energy Efficiency can be found at this Website.  Now everyone is limited to [...]

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This year is a good year to be spending money.  How so? Spending money buying homes, cars, pretty much anything.  The Government is giving away huge tax incentives to stimulate spending and the economy.  The truth is that consumer spending is what drives the economy.  But with times being as rough as they are, I [...]

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Turns out I have a lot of conservatives in my family.  Granted it might be a generational thing.  My two uncles are very much against higher taxes.  They think they pay enough in federal income taxes.  But then they turned right around and said Obama was right in taxing those people making more than $250k/year [...]

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I just wanted to quickly do a turbotax review.  We did our taxes at the last minute again.  We had done a rough calculation in March, but for some reason tax forms were still arriving in April.  This year we again used Turbotax Premier instead of paying a CPA.
Honestly?  I found it easy.  We imported [...]

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I gotta mention this.  McCain picked as his choice Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska.  Initially in 2006 Palin backed funding for the Bridge to Nowhere, or the bridge between Ketichkan and Gravina Island.  This was to cost $233 million. 
In 2007 Palin changed her mind and said it was a terrible Pork Barrel Spending Idea.  Sounds [...]

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I dream of moving back to California one day, nice weather, more relaxed lifestyle, and just a very different mindset.  You’d have to live in both places to understand but it’s different. And the midwest has it’s own flavor, having lived for a year in the midwest, I have to say I prefer it to [...]

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