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Sadly this isn't exactly shocking news. Big city mayors, both Democrats and Republicans, have had legal problems during their time in office related to corruption or campaign contributions. It seems like we hear of a new federal or state investigation of a mayor every couple of years at least...

You are self employed, and so is your wife with regards to her Door Dash gig. That's taxable income for you and her and that is reported on your federal income tax return (Form 1040) using Schedule C. You each would complete a Schedule C and Schdule SE (discussed below) for your separate...

Each side of the aisle needs to remember the point Sen. Sinema made: a rule change your side makes today to help it win on some issue may be used against it by the other side tomorrow. That's why the best set of rules are those that treat each fairly. When deciding on rules, each side really...

It's great that you voted and that your state provides flexible voting options to encourage as many citizens to vote as possible. I plan to vote early early in my state, too. Oddly though, until recently Trump and the Republican Party opposed voting by mail and other alternative options for...

So we have at least one issue on which Jackson and Trump agree — and one that has nothing to do with what Harris will do as president if elected.

IP theft of what, exactly? Your ideas? If you are both in the U.S. ideas are not protected from use by others unless you have obtained a patent. You may have a copyright infringement claim if he republishes any images, documents, sound files, etc that you created, but you'd need to first check...

I have provided real facts, I daresay at least as much as you have. You just ignore the facts I put up, I presume because you think, like Trump, that they are "fake news" when you don't like them.

Presidents don't by themselves have much impact short-term on economics. Most of the things you mentioned were not done by Trump alone; they had to be done with legislation from Congress. That is why in another thread I've said that voters need to focus not just on their vote for president, but...

That article is as much an overreaction on the part of the right as the claims from the left that electing Trump will lead to Facism. I see nothing that suggests either outcome is at all likely whichever candidate we elect. This is the kind of election demonizing that seeks to scare people...

That's hard to do without triggering deflation, which can be even harder to get out of than inflation. Japan has been battling to end deflation for nearly 30 years. What is needed is for incomes to keep pace with price increases, and that's much easier to do with low inflation rates. It's long...

I do have my facts straight, thank you. It's just that you don't like my opinion of the man. I am just as free to give my opinion here about Trump as you are.

One of the most remarkable thing about Americans generally is that most will rally against a violent attack of any leader, even if that leader isn't one they'll vote for. Assassinations, assaults, and attempts to do those things to our leaders of either party are viewed as attacks against all of...

We'd have a much safer nation if everyone held the same sensible view.

Then perhaps you need a little more brain capacity, Jack :) I'm pretty sure you meant that statement more tongue in cheek than anything serious. Still, I think it bears saying that liberals, as a whole, have the same ability to justify their their positions as conservatives do. I've heard some...

It's not surprising to me that a member of Trump's campaign staff would echo Trump's claims like the following: "My Admin has done more for the Black Community than any President since Abraham Lincoln." June 2, 2020 Tweet. "My administration is delivering for African Americans like never...

I don't know where you are getting your information that poverty is somehow much worse under Biden than it was under Trump. Census Bureau statistics don't bear that out. In 2020, the last year of Trump's presidency the official poverty rate was 11.5%. Last year, the poverty rate was 11.1%. (The...

Whatever his argument was with the judge about it couldn't have been anything close to making it worth spending the rest of his life (or at least most of it) in a state maximum security prison.

Few people enjoy paying taxes. But most follow the law and pay their taxes. Then there are those, like the ITPs, who will try just about anything to dodge their tax obligations. They weren't all that hard to find, for the most part, as they also tended to be vocal about it. When I first showed...

The FDCPA does not apply to actions a creditor or collector takes in pursuing a court judgment on the debt. In addition to that, the FDCPA only applies to "debt collectors" as defined in the Act, and the Act excludes the original creditor from the term "debt collector". If the claimed debt...

These folks come up with some really odd ideas. I dealt with a lot of such people during the couple years that I was a tax protest coordinator at IRS. (Congress later banned the IRS from identifying anyone as an "illegal tax protestor (ITP)" though what good they thought it would do is beyond...