GA_Dave

For Federal income tax, I use the Standard Deduction, which has increased every year since 2017 and will again this year. The tax brackets have adjusted downward every year since 2017. I have no farm land, nor stocks either. Because of President Trumps tax cut in 2017, I saved $1500 in tax compared to the previous year, based on the same income. Each year since then, I also saved the original $1500, plus another $75 for each year since. That means that for 2025, I should save $2100 in Federal tax compared to the amount I was taxed before 2017. Those tax cuts were set to expire this year, but President Trump extended them in last year's tax legislation, PLUS he has created a deduction for Social Security income that was being taxed. I'll find out at tax time how much more that will save me. At the State level, the income tax rate was 6% for many years, but legislation passed by our Governor is reducing it each year until it reaches 4%. In addition, the Governor has given tax rebates of $250/taxpayer in three recent years and an additional $500 rebate on property taxes to each homeowner. For the past several years, my FREE State has had a large budget surplus and has returned some of that to the taxpayers.

You have said this before, yet I fail to understand how. I don't feel screwed. The people I associate with don't feel that way either. The US Border is under control. The economy is improving. Gas prices are going down. The "green energy" SCAM is dead. Both my income taxes and property taxes are going down. Unconstitutional gun control laws are being overturned. I live in a FREE State. Life is good!

Nice! I drove a 1985 L-9000 with a 6V92 for many years!

They do that so the Fords run!

Back in 1978 I owned one Ford, a 1967 Fairlane (390 CID, 2-speed auto, first and third.....) for about three weeks. Paid $75 for it, sold it back to the same guy for the same $75. I've always been a MOPAR guy, with a few GM's in between. Currently there are two Dodges sitting in my driveway with no plans to replace either one.

I'm happy for you. When I retired 12 years ago, I was 265 pounds. Today, I'm at 230 and still losing. I don't rush things, don't go to a gym, don't starve myself, but have cut back on portions and snacking. I also don't stress about it. Don't know how long I have left, so there is no point in stressing over my weight. At this rate, I should hit 200 in around 10 or 11 more years, IF I'm still here!

Not trying to start anything, but in my State, none of that is required. I have one battery powered smoke detector in the hallway by the bedroom. I used to have another just outside the kitchen, but the wife set it off every time she cooked.

That was close, glad there were no injuries.

On duty at CPFD Station 2, located just west of the runways at Atlanta-Hartsfield. In short time, all aircraft would be on the ground and Station 2 has never been so quiet. All scheduled activities were cancelled for the next few days and we only left the stations to run emergency calls. The station televisions, normally turned off during "business" hours, were watched closely for updates.

You have your Kennedy's mixed up. This thread is about John, not Robert, Jr.

As it has been said by others, Trump could find the cure for cancer and give it to everyone for free, and the left would still hate him. Nothing he did in his first term hurt me and that is holding true for this term. His original tax cuts put more of my money in my pocket and their continuation will keep doing so. The changes to the taxes on SS will add more. Reducing wasteful government spending is the right move. Removing those here illegally is the right move. Stopping the DEI policies is the right move. His efforts to return manufacturing to the US is the right move. When was the last time a democrat in the White House did something to benefit all US Citizens? And he's doing it for FREE!

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The video starts just as the truck driver begins to pull out and the impact occurs at the 4 second mark. As he goes through his turn, the van comes into view. Judge the distance, but I would say it is about 300' away. Take away the reaction time, eating up about 100 feet, and there was not enough distance remaining for the van to stop before impact. A "typical passenger car" is used in the above example of stopping distance/time, but this was a mini van, which could weight 700 to 1000 pounds more, increasing those distances and the time to stop.

1977 Century 1000/500, #5552, for those who keep track.

Car seats - My kids were born in 1980, 1981 ans 1984. Only the last one had to have a car seat when born. Safety standards were minimal in any of the seats available at that time. Their use was not mandatory nationwide until later. Dad's 1969 New Yorker was the first car we had that had seat belts in the back seat. My Uncle had a 1970 Chevy C-10 with a cap and brought his five kids up to NY from TX with 4 of them riding in the back. The number of times I rode in the back of an open pickup is too many to count. I also used to ride on the tailboard of speeding fire engines. I have cut seat belts off of plenty of dead bodies in wrecks and have personally walked away from more than one wreck where I was not wearing one. Worked a wreck one time where a Chevette hit a tree as wide as the car at high speed. The least injured of the five people inside was the one not belted in, who was ejected.

Under the current rules that President Trump is trying to change, they are counted in the census, but NOT identified as being illegally here. The left counted them as citizens in the 2020 census, changing the population of certain States to the point that it changed the number of US Representatives those States have in Congress and changing the population of districts that the left then gerrymandered to their advantage.

They should never have been included in the first place! Those here illegally should not be represented, they should be removed. Thank you, President Trump!