Recent content by Oldgoat

the TARP money that was loaned out to banks, AIG, GM, Chrysler that was repaid? I believe that all this has been repaid except some for AIG which they say they will pay, and a billion or so for Chrysler (that they are not going to repay) Did it just evaporate? Don' hear anything about the...

You all are looking at the dark side of this. Me, I'm glad someone shot this SOB. Oldgoat

Mike, Do you suppose all those folks are just tax-paying citizens just trying to recoup some of their tax burden? Oldgoat

Sham, Getg a list of those thousnds(or even a partial list) and I will personally find out if they are what you claim. OG

Sham, Your link doesn't work. Try this one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war

Another idle question. How do you all keep the helmet window from frosting/fogging up in real cold weather. I take the wife's hair dryer and let it run on low when the helmet if off. Works well, but can cause friction if it isn't kept clean. Oldgoat

Tex wrote: Tex, the taxation of capital gains at a lower rate has a good justification. If you purchased a capital asset for $1000 twenty-five years ago and sold it today for $2000, you would get dinged for $150 in capital gains tax even though you suffered a real loss of more than half of...

Just another attempt to foment class warfare. WW is so right - The US is so buried in debt at the personal, local government, state and federal level that any hope of extricating ourselves is a false hope, Even if we ignore the unrecorded debt of social security, medicare, medicaid. And of...

Thought about one of these nwew solar powered submersibles? Heard a lot of good things about them.

Many states, if not all, have ways of collecting road taxes for fuels such as propane where tax cannot be collected at the pump, Why would electric cars be any different?

TSR wrote: TSR - All the oil companies I am familiar with orint an annual report AND A STATISTICAL SUPPLEMENT which provides great detail on all financial activity during the year. You could save yourself a lot of guessing and unresearched comments if you would ask for a copy. OG

Flourescent light is dangerous.. I worked in offices lit by flourescent light and after 30 years, most of my hair fell out. Got some teeth missing and arthritis. Must have been the lights because I am only 74 years old. :D :D

Tex, I do not profess to be a tax accountant now, but I was a tax compliance manager for many years. I learned the tax law. But I also learned that trying to teach outsiders was a waste of time - and I don't have enough time left to waste. OG

Tex wrote: For crying out loud, Tex, go read the doggone law. Integrated oil companies haven't had depletion since the early 1980s. If you can't comprehend the law, quit preaching on it. Do you even know what intangible drilling cost are? Granted that the tax treatment oif IDC is...

More years ago than I like to remember, we did all of our haying by hand with one team of horses. We mowed with a five-foot sickle mower, raked with a 12-foot dump rake and stacked with two guys with pitchforks onto a hayrack. Then it was off to the stackyard where the hay was stacked again by...