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Fiber is good for you
ByDerekI’ve been patiently waiting to get FiOS, Verizon’s new fiber optic residential network, since February. It’s really bugging me because I know they ran fiber to a box on the corner of my lot last year, but they’re still not offering the service to me yet. Anyways… Verizon stockholders weren’t too pleased when Verizon disclosed…
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Rational Skyway redevelopment
ByDerekCraig links to a Buffalo News editorial of someone that’s actually speaking rationally when it comes to redeveloping the Skyway. The majority of people going to the waterfront will drive there. So what is the difference if you drive over a bridge, which blocks the river, or over the Skyway, which does not? The problem…
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NY’s Jock Itch
ByDerekWow… here’s a tax I never knew New York had under it’s belt – the Jock Tax. I believe that professional athletes are grossly overpaid, but targeting a tax specifically on their profession seems even more unfair than the fact that guys that could barely graduate from high school make multimillion dollar salaries to play…
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Merry Christmas!
ByDerekMerry Christmas to all our friends and family! Earlier this year, we went to Bronner’s CHRISTmas Wonderland in Frankenmuth, MI, a place I had been to several times over the years when visiting family in Michigan. I’ve had one of their signature handpainted ornaments for years, so we got one for Amanda and Ariella to…
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Keep working… you haven’t paid off your taxes yet
ByDerekI love the Tax Foundation because they tend to uncomplicate tax issues so that everyone can understand them. Their annual Tax Freedom Day report was released today. It tells you, quite simply, that if you started giving your entire paycheck to the government on January 1st and weren’t allowed to keep any for yourself until…
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I’ll second that!
Hear, hear!! Ditto!
That’s hilarious!! 🙂