@#14

Typo alert ...

And apparent by-product of DOGE.

-- should be --

An apparent intentional by-product of DOGE.

Apologies.

@#13 ... a red flag to have too high a percentage of overtime (eg, over 40% might trigger an audit). ...

And the audits seem to target the lower income people, because (now that the IRS staff has been drastically DOGE'd) there are not enough auditors with the capability to pursue the wealthy tax cheats. And apparent by-product of DOGE.

@#27 ... I would have kept the SALT deduction the same or reduced it. ...

I would eliminate the SALT deduction.

The states should be able to justify the taxes they imposes on their citizens, without any manner of approval from the Federal government.

Stated from a different view... sates taxation is exactly that, state taxation. If you do not like it, work with your state legislators, not your Federal Congress folk.

But, that's just me.

I have to wonder how a Tesla robotaxi might navigate the intersection with the Newtown Flagpole?

:)

@#67 ... They did so voluntarily, ...

Who did what voluntarily?

Your current alias' comment is quite ambiguous.

@#69 ... I just will never understand why it is considered greedy to want to keep more of my own money (because I am better at allocating it ...

So, are you keeping more of your own money, or are you allocating it?

Ya know, when you start a comment with an inherent contradiction, it makes it difficult to take the rest of that comment seriously.

Jus' sayin'.

:)

Wait, what?

Mr Musk's Tesla is putting autonomous vehicles on the streets of Austin, TX... vehicles that can kill people?

And those autonomous vehicles have to ability to kill people?

And... "Tesla says its experimental software is driving the vehicles"

Experimental software?

Am I the only one who sees a possible issue here?

More from the article ...

... Two weeks into Tesla's robotaxi prototype rollout on the streets of Austin, Texas, a string of viral videos showing apparent mishaps and the severely limited access to the service have caused a cloud of confusion and concern around the vehicles and their safety.

Tesla launched its Austin service on June 22. People who've gotten an invitation, a group that appears to be composed largely of influencers adjacent to and acolytes of CEO Elon Musk, use an app to call for a ride, similar to ride-hailing apps Uber and Lyft. Each ride costs $4.20, a cannabis-associated number that Musk frequently uses.

The service is somewhat of a prototype. Although no human is in the driver's seat, each car has a company employee in the front passenger seat who can stop the car with a button if there are safety concerns. Tesla says its experimental software is driving the vehicles. ...

@#3 ... Then again, the real breakthroughs are rarely done by university PhDs as all the actual tech in the private sector is 5+ years beyond anything being taught in a university. ...

That is exactly the point.

The brain drain is not about now, or next year, or the year after.

It is about the future.

And Pres Trump with his apparent "how does this benefit me now" transactional approach seems to look, as your current alias does, more to the present and immediate future than the longer term ramifications.

Hey, that's an OK view, imo, so long as your current alias admits that is its view....

@#4

Yeah, I'm now wondering if that lame ScottS alias is yet another creation to the JeffJ alias.

The flagpole ...

More from the article ...

... Colonial New England had a penchant for putting large structures, such as meeting houses in the middle of their main streets. Newtown was no exception.

From the time that it was first laid out in 1709 until 1792, the Congregational meeting house stood in the middle of the Church Hill Rd, West St., Main St. intersection, where the flagpole presently stands.

In this position it dominated the village, which was fitting for the town's most important building. By being in the middle of the intersection, it was also located on town common land and therefore did not deprive one of the town's proprietors of a section of his house lot. ....

More from the article ...

... The move is a response to an additional 25 percent tariff that the administration of US President Donald Trump has imposed on automobiles and major auto parts imported into the country.

The Indian notification sent to the WTO on Friday says that the US would collect 723.75 million dollars by imposing the additional tariff.

It also says that India's retaliatory tariffs would result in an equivalent amount of duties collected from products imported from the US.

India has not disclosed details of the measure, including US products targeted by the retaliatory tariffs.

India says it reserves the right to withdraw or modify the notification, suggesting that the proposed retaliatory duties may be called off depending on how Washington reacts to the proposal. ...

@#118 ...Legally...

Apparently confirming my opinion that its aliases are here more to disrupt than to contribute.

Thank-you for that apparent confirmation.

@#1 ... In Boxtown, the historically Black neighborhood in South Memphis where xAI's data center is situated, Musk's unfettered pollution has ripped the band-aid off a wound that had barely begun to heal. ...

Well, yeah.

The current GOP: ~it is OK to pollute their neighborhood, just don't pollute mine.~

imo, Mr Thiel, who apparently gave us VP Vance, has major internal issues he need take a step back and try to resolve.

Why do I hold that opinion? Well, his possible internal angst seems to be portrayed upon the US political system.

Case in point: VP Vance.

So, if I may be so bold to suggest to Mr Thiel, look inward, and fix yourself, before you try to fix the Country.

MAHA?

Make America Healthy Again?

Do I detect a dichotomy?

@#2

Astoundingly blunt, yet, to the point.

I like that in a comment.

Whether or not I agree or disagree?

Oh, that's a whole different question.

In the case of #2 on this thread, I have a difficulty with disagreeing.

@#114

So, trying to dismiss the symptom instead of even trying to make an attempt at looking and resolving the cause?

@#110 .. as rescuers search devastated landscape ...

Yeah, first responders apparently going from flooded tree to flooded tree, trying to find children clinging for their life.

@#106 ... LGH is the quintessential keyboard warrior who would burst into tears like a little girl in real life if someone gave him a mean stare. ...

So, your current alias seems to overtly admit, it seems to participate on this most august message board to disrupt and not to contribute?

Good to know.