The money is on the table, just waiting to be took, read a book one paragraph at a time and learn how to put it in your pocket. Sorry, I was a victim of good parenting, I had to do my taxes when I was a teenager. You can lead a horse to water............ it is not the IRS's job to ensure someone gets their 'entitlement...more

Taxes are easy to do. I like to think of them as a national intelligence test. If you paid someone to take the test for you, did you qualify for the Earned Income Credit? If so, it explains why you paid to have someone take the test for you.   If you get the EIC and other welfare benefits, you might be tempt...more

There is nothing wrong with a refund, zero interest on my money is better than losing it through investing and putting myself at risk at the end of the year.  PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS JEFF, SHOW US YOUR SHAOLIN. Create a short-term fund, put your money in it, borrow against all of your assets and put that mon...more

To emphasize "we need smaller gov.", look what BamBam and the executive crew did for the government workers on Dec 23, 2009: search for   "Executive Order -- Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay" . Essentially he signed in a 2% total pay raise for huge swaths of the gov. employee pool. During a deflationary cycle, I m...more

I converted to a Roth in 2009. Plan on rolling over any future plans into it. Just how in the heck could the government tax them? just seems like another staffer trying to get a story in.

Mr. Markman, We have just rolled out of our former 401K and are rolling into a Roth IRA. We will put the little egg into a small credit union and let it sit there. If I have to compensate somebody, I'd rather it be the bank than someone who wants me to throw good paper out for their bad paper. That's what a share of...more

Here in Portland, OR, you can catch a movie for $3.00 or less if you're willing to wait a month or so. There are also dirt cheap concerts (I take that back, reasonably affordable), McMenamin's, for example, still lets you buy tickets at the door. I don't even remember the last time I ordered a ticket online or payed an...more

I have a 97 Yukon that I will run into the ground. A car is a car. But "technically", meaning I can afford it, would it be worth the hassle just to take a brand new GM car on a road trip and: throttle the engine, grind the gears, peel out the tires, torture the sound system just to return it and say I'm sorry, but ...more

I am interested in running a savage burn on GM.  My girlfriend and I were looking for an affordable car to purchase over the last couple of months. I don't like anything out there, US or foreign. I am thinking about getting a Chevy, drive it from Portland, OR to Billings, MT, then bring it back. Would this be unethic...more