Skip to content
Observations…
…from somewhere in Kansas City
  • Home
  • About me…
  • Donate to us
  • Phishing
  • Scams
  • Unexpected lesson on the I-35

Category: Taxes

Taxes

Sales taxes and shelf prices in the United States

Posted on June 21, 2024 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

One of the many complaints the rest of the world has with the United States, and it’s one on which I share some sentiment, is with a particular part of ou...

Charity/Taxes

Charity “tax write off”

Posted on September 26, 2021 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

The title of this post kind of rubbed me wrong. It’s from a list article derived from a Reddit post called “What screams ‘pretending to be upp...

Charity/Taxes

AOC and the left’s disdain for charity

Posted on June 8, 2021 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

The left’s disdain for charity is long-documented. But the most recent example is coming “from the top”, so to speak. Recently Congresswoman A...

Economics/Second Amendment/Taxes

Taxing firearms

Posted on August 17, 2019 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Article: Don’t Ban Assault Weapons – Tax Them I’ve said before (here and here) that subtle racism largely fuels the calls for greater financial burd...

Taxes

Tax credits do not make adoption more affordable

Posted on June 15, 2019 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Several United States Senators recently introduced the “Adoption Tax Credit Refundability Act”, which aims to make the entirety of a family’s ...

Charity/Taxes

False charity because #fuckTrump

Posted on January 21, 2019 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Amazing how the Federal “shutdown” appears to be bringing people together, right? Bringing out people who are willing to help the furloughed governm...

Politics/Taxes

Dodging taxes – the “fair share” argument

Posted on October 29, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

[Note: this isn’t really an article, but merely a cut/paste of a comment I left to someone trying to argue that the wealthy don’t pay their “f...

Charity/Taxes

Helping the poor

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’m often baffled at the amount of fake advocacy that happens online. Slactivism is what it’s largely been called. One thing that plenty of people h...

Life/Politics/Taxes

3 tax breaks to think about

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

A lot of people focus a lot of time and effort on giving as little money as possible to the Federal government. I can understand why, but much of this time and ...

Affiliations

To offset the hosting and operating costs of this site, this site's owner is a member of the Amazon Associates program and eBay Partner Network. Links directing you to Amazon or eBay product or search result pages may be affiliate links for which I may earn a commission when a purchase is made.

On Solicitations and Inquiries

Since I keep getting inquiries for some reason... Note: this does not apply to inquiries about reviewing a product. If you insist in inquiring with me about incorporating your content, or a link thereto, onto my site, include your proposal as the message for a non-refundable payment to my PayPal. I reserve the right to decline your request for any reason or none, with or without any response. I also reserve the right to publicly post any solicitations I receive regarding this blog or any article therein.

Blogroll

  • Donate to this blog!
  • My BOINC stats
  • My Folding@Home

Law resources

  • Legal Information Institute
  • United States Supreme Court

Search

Archives

Categories

  • Abortion
  • Accounting
  • Amazon.com
  • Animals and pets
  • Background checks
  • Bullying
  • Capital punishment
  • Capitalism
  • Cartoons
  • Casey Anthony
  • Censorship
  • Charity
  • Children
  • Concealed carry
  • Constitution
  • Contract law
  • Crime
  • Debt
  • Democrat platform
  • DIY
  • Double jeopardy
  • Dress codes
  • Driving
  • Dual-sovereignty doctrine
  • Due process
  • Economics
  • Eighth Amendment
  • Elections
  • Electoral College
  • Energy
  • Espresso
  • Ethics
  • Federal Reserve
  • FedEx
  • Feminism
  • Fifth Amendment
  • Firearms and Ammunition
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • Fourth Amendment
  • Fractional-reserve banking
  • Free speech and press
  • Gaming
  • George Zimmerman
  • Health
  • Health care
  • Immigration
  • Impeachment
  • Journalism
  • Law
  • Law Enforcement/Police
  • Letters to politicians
  • Libertarianism
  • Life
  • Logic
  • Marketing
  • Marriage and Relationships
  • Minimum wage
  • Mortgage
  • Movies
  • Music
  • National Rifle Association
  • Net neutrality
  • Nudity
  • Open source
  • PayPal
  • Phishing
  • Photography
  • Pledge of Allegiance
  • Politics
  • Product and service reviews
  • Programming
  • Projects
    • 10Gb network upgrade
    • Absinthe
    • Amethyst
    • Beta Orionis
    • Colony West
    • Cordelia
    • Desert Sapphire
    • Docker
    • First water cooled build
    • Lighting
    • Mining
    • Mira
    • Nasira
    • OPNsense router
    • Plex
    • Power adapters
    • Rack mount HDD enclosure
    • Rack mount server
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Server projects
    • Silent DIY rack cabinet
    • Virtualization
    • White Lightning
  • Religion
  • Republican platform
  • Rights
  • Scams
  • Science
  • Second Amendment
  • Sex
  • Socialism
  • Solicitations
  • Supreme Court
  • Taxes
  • Technology
  • Term limits
  • Trial by jury
  • Vaccines
  • Working

Blogroll

  • Donate to this blog!
  • My BOINC stats
  • My Folding@Home

Law resources

  • Legal Information Institute
  • United States Supreme Court

Pages

  • About me…
  • Donate to us
  • Phishing
  • Scams
  • Unexpected lesson on the I-35
© 2025 Observations…
Powered by WordPress | Theme: Graphy by Themegraphy