It’s a lifestyle choice. If you want to own your own residence, go for it. If you don’t, keep renting.

Ha ha ha...self-report tax free out of state purchases...pffft...ha ha ha...can’t breathe....ha ha ha...

The story says “directly from your paycheck” which indicates the former. So if people take this advice, they’re deducting it twice.

If you put the luggage scale in your luggage after you weigh it, that increases the weight from what you measured.

If you put the luggage scale in your luggage after you weigh it, that increases the weight from what you measured.

Are those regular 3M Command hangers or something more specialized?

How do you get that dusty/slimy stuff off bathroom surfaces? No matter what I do it just ends up pushing the dust into a congealed sludge.

The HSA contribution isn’t already deducted from your W-2 amount?

Everybody did a double take when The Martian won Best Comedy Golden Globe, was I the only one who went “um, yeah, that’s what it was, guys”?

Quint: Porkers! Talkin about porkers! Mr. Hooper. Just tie me a sheep shank[sic].

The tower looks great - is it UL listed?

Also, I guess I misunderstood you. I thought you were saying that your employer would take this into account when calculating the withholding amount. Again my apologies. The flip side of this, of course, is that it’s important to remember to readjust your withholding after the first of the following year, otherwise…

I did not know that, thank you for that. I didn’t run through the calculator fully, but it would be interesting to know how it applies the limit of which you speak. When I was married a few years back I went through this, but did not use the calculator, as I trusted my own calculations more than theirs.

Citation for this please. And what’s the definition of “very close”?

Sorry about the spelling errors, end of a long day. My original post had it right.

“Again, the calculator will tell you if it still pays to file jointly” says (to me, at least) that there may be benefits to filing separately, which is almost never the case. It almost always either “pays” to file jointly or else has no net effect on your taxes.

It’s part of their organization but even they don’t call it the “Noble Prize in Economics” like the others are called (“Noble Prize in Physics”, etc.)

There is no Nobel Prize in economics. There is a prize created by some Swedish bank with the Nobel name stuck on to make it sound legitimate. Even one of the winners (Hayek) said it was bogus.

You have it exactly backwards: when one spouse makes much more than the other, that’s when filing jointly saves money. The joint filing status was originally set up when far fewer married women worked outside the home and was intended to benefit single-earner households. Subsequently, as more and more couples turned…

The marriage penalty applies whether you file “Married Filing Separately” or “Married Filing Jointly”.

There are a lot of benefits to being married as well like no gift tax, tax-free inheritance, etc.