If they really wanna piss off stepmom, Dale, Jr., should endorse the Earnhardt collection...

I love this stat- everytime I hear how the rich should pay their fair share, I like to point out they already pay almost 70% of all income taxes. What should they be paying?

It’s a “model” home. They usually put a sales office in the garage, finished out, and the big garage door is so the exterior looks like it’s supposed to. Once the subdivision has sold out they’ll convert the office back into a garage and pour a driveway so they can sell the model, too.

Because The Man was the first to ask for help. The Man framed the fight, first, in a way that made sense to the Kid. And the Kid was out to impress The Man, who is a super-rich, well-regarded superhero.

My smallish firm is the same way. We do mid-year bonuses, based on reviews in May (soon!) with payment in June, and larger bonus and raise in December. No other times.

My boss- either super early in the morning, assuming he doesn’t have an appointment first thing (he’s in the office before 7, it’s the only time his phone isn’t ringing off the hook and other employees aren’t lined up out the door with issues), or after a Spurs win.

We lucked out as well, but several people in my office have to have car repairs or even roof replacements.

I kinda meant it as absolute occasional low- and we may not have seen that, at all, this winter.

I’ll just be happy when the hail stops.

I paid $4000 for a ‘93 XJ in 2000...

Nah, I’m in SA, and my electric bill goes from $100-120 in winter to over $200 in the summer, at times. Though we just moved to a newer house that seems to have better insulation/more efficient a/c (and gas heat!), so I’ve already (in first two electric bills) seen a drop of about $25/month since the same months last…

Fortunately, I’m one of that subset of people for whom melatonin is, essentially, an actual sleep drug. I take it a lot, so my dosage has to be higher, but I’ll take two of the 10mg dissolvable/chewable tablets at bedtime and, basically, start passing out within 30 minutes. If I get off of it, my sleep quality…

We have state inspections here in Texas and it’s basically just a $25 fee I pay to a drive-in kiosk or oil change place. They never tell me anything is wrong, even when I know something is. The last one, I drove in for an oil change, told them I needed an inspection. They did the oil change and were ringing me up. I…

Not when it only dips down that low for a few hours at night, then picks back up into the 50s during the day.

I fully expect to get one, assuming it can be had for under $60K and the Bonus Gods shine down upon me.

As I understand it, because they’d be importing a light truck, it’d be subject to the “Chicken Tax” of 25%. Given that the margin on vehicles like this isn’t nearly that high- it has to be cheaper than full-size trucks to make sense, there’s no money to be made.

They could always produce it at one of their U.S. plants,…

I think this is the disconnect between people from places with harsh winters, and people from places with stupid-hot summers, but mildish winters.

In South Texas, for instance, our typical winter low is in the 20s, while our summer high is in the 110s. Most people have electric heat because that’s good enough for our…

It was a tongue in cheek reference to the example provided. All together, the principle, itself, is fine.

The only situation I can think of would be where there are cold winters, but people still have electric heat.

Obviously the example does not apply to the South, where electricity bills go down to almost nothing in winter, spike in summer.

We do this with our two biggest variable expenses- gas and groceries. We budget for something like $700/month in groceries and $500/month in gas, but rarely spend more than $500/$400. So we…

B) Exactly. If I were to live next to my office, even in San Antonio, I’d pay, easily, 50% more for a similar house.