Disgusted American, See the posts here. The tax is only on the PROFIT on your home sale, and it only kicks in if a single person makes over $250,000 on the sale or a couple makes over $500,000. So really you have a $250,000/$500,000 exemption. You realtor should know that. This is another sound-bite going around. You n...more

I had one of the worst customer service experiences last year when I tried to exchange or get a refund on a gift that came from J.C. Penney. I did not have a receipt because it was a gift (clothing), but the tags were still on it, and the Dept. Manager said it did come from their store. I finally just gave up and left ...more

What you you expect this "empty suit" to say?  The politicians like Perry represent the wealthiest not the middle class. You are going to have to try and take an extra 5% or so from their "cold dead hands". The fact is the middle class would probably agree to this increase before they would.

This should be a lesson for those people in their 20's to 40's. Don't get caught-up in always wanting and buying newer cars, bigger homes, fancy vacations, latest electronic "toys". For gosh sakes don't don't ever use your home as an ATM (you are probably not going to get to do that anyway for the next decade since it'...more

My wife and I were able to retire in our late 50's ten years ago when our jobs were lost. We had seen this coming and saved and invested wisely. We hardly ever went on lavish vacations. We bought a modest size (2200 squ. ft.) house and paid it off when we retired. We had nice cars but not really luxury cars until we we...more