I'm surprized Liz Weston included Item #5 "Give Anonymously". If you itemize on your federal taxes, you now need a contribution acknowledgment letter from each charity in order to deduct these donations. This IRS regulation went into effect two years ago.  You're not going to receive these confirmation letters if you d...more

"The highway funds are not being "raided" to pay for mass transit, there is a specific amount allocated to the mass transit account in the gas tax. "    Someone: you are the one who needs to get their facts correct. You said "allocated", I said "transferred".What's ​ the difference? The point is that It's time for ...more

There is one very important fact not mentioned here . The only reason that the US Highway Trust Fund has a $10 billion deficit this year is that the Government has been transferring out every year for decades $6-8 billion to fund Mass Transit projects around the US and Amtrak. It's time to end this subsidy and use thes...more

Laid-Off- Engineer: If you are a laid-off engineer today and can not get another job, then you must be a lousy engineer. And I know alot of lousy engineers who are still working and should have been let go years ago.       Right now there are thousands of companies looking from coast-to-coast for qualified engineers . ...more

If you are out of options, there is one more that no one ever talks about- the Military. If you can qualify for one of the services ( especially if you have desirable civilian skills and education ) ,their family benefits package is almost as good as the Federal Government. In addition you'll get paid, free food , room...more

Author Kay Bell is one of those brainless people who , if you lowered their IQ by 1 point, would be classified as a vegetables.  So Ms Liberal Socialist we should take away the remaining tax breaks offered to the middle class and give all of the funds back to the Federal government to squander on more social programs f...more

"If an heir happens to live in Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey or Pennsylvania, there's an extra inheritance tax tacked on once the inheritance makes it into his or her hands. Spouses of heirs are exempt from all of these taxes, as are life insurance payouts, but that's about as kind as each of ...more

Their return policy is the worst in the industry. I once tried to buy a Dell  laptop as a gift from them, and was told that if I want to return it for any reason it had to returned in 14 days or less from date-of -purchase with a restocking fee if the carton was opened. Instead bought it directly from Dell's website fo...more

For everyone's information, there are a number of states including CA, NJ, RI, where every worker pays into their states unemployment system. In NJ you have to match what your employer pays in, ontop of that you have to pay into a state disability system that allows workers to get paid leave for health or family reason...more