http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2012/09/24/sailor-calls-romney-a-narrow-minded-bigot/
No word yet on if the lad received a bit of "wall-to-wall counseling", but I'm pretty sure his shot at the USNA is now officially dead.
Taxes are strange. As it has been YEARS ago I will need some help here. In the 1960's ones home port was the state in where you enlisted. So if a family filing joint taxes in a state taxable state thousands of miles from the enlistment took place the state of enlistment could charge state taxes on the bill to tax a spouses salary even if they had never set foot in that State. Very confusing to me. And if living in and working in a State tax area both spouses have to pay that state also.
Then the on going debate between Maine and New Hampshire. Not too sure about this one either----Seems that if you live in New Hampshire but work in Maine you can be held to pay taxes in Maine. A family with one member working in N.H. the other working in Maine if filling jointly the worker in N.H. has to also pay Maine Taxes. I still do not understand this tax business.
At one time you could deduct from the Federal returns and Federal taxes all ready paid. Fed tax on gas, heating oil ,booze and cigarettes. one time in the 1970's we could deduct interest on any loan be they vehicle or home, including credit cards.
I became curious and called H&R Block to see if we could deduct the State mandated tax's on pre cooked food from our Federal. I figured that if I could deduct town tax's on a dog license or a car, boat ,moter home, why not a state tax on food ??????
Oh yes I know people that may come up short for the amount of federal deductions they can claim, they tell me they start buying up Lottery tickets like mad, If they win fine but if they loose a few thousand dollars to non winners this amount may just push them over the top for a Big loss deduction.
I must have been pushed around to half a dozen people that each had called the IRS with my question and received 6 different answers. Kind of chilling when if the IRS ok's a deduction and the account Clerk is WRONG, you may have to pay fines for their mistake.
" It's the tax man, if you walk to work they tax your feet. "