PopAlongKid

>mis-filed my taxes a couple years ago, which cost me about $20K

What do you mean by "cost you $20K"? That your tax liability was calculated by the accountant to be higher than it actually should have been? Or that the accountant calculated your liability too low, which was caught and billed by the IRS?

In the first case, you can still file for a refund within 3 years (I'm omitting some technical details), but in the latter case, as mentioned by others, you still owe the tax whether it was correctly reported on your original return or not.

The first time I learned of these was from the movie "The Naked Prey" where the according to google search,

  • He [protagonist] finds a giant African land snail (Lissachatina fulica) crawling on a rock.
  • Starving and exhausted, he uses his knife to carve the large mollusk out of its shell and eats the snail meat raw.
  • After swallowing it, he comically picks a sharp thorn off a nearby bush to clean his teeth.

It wasn't the author who wanted it removed, it was AllTrails.

Way more boomers were born in the 1950s and 1960s than the 1940s. Clinton, Bush II, and Trump barely qualify as boomers, and Biden is definitely not one, so yes, I think it is because of some reason(s) besides affliation with the boomer birthdate range.

>the point remains that the 60+ set have more voting power and influence/wealth now than they ever had in the past.

That says nothing about how their "voting power" compares to the rest of the population, especially since the size of the cohort is rapidly declining, which is the point that remains.

>> One way out could be to tax the value gain at the time of sale, or when the house gets rented out, thus no longer being “owner occupied”.

>My local government put exactly this on the ballot: a small percentage transfer tax on the sale price of the home,

First comment suggests taxing the gain (income tax), while second comment suggests a tax on sale price (gross receipts tax). Two very different things.

In late 1970s, I spent two months hitching and riding trains around Europe, just an external frame backpack and a sleeping bag. A few years ago, I spent 2.5 weeks in U.K. and Ireland, with an 18-liter backpack and a waist bag (a.k.a. fanny pack ), which made getting around a breeze especially at airports and on trains. It even allowed me to carry a notebook computer. As mentioned in TFA, merino wool and no cotton garments helps. The rain was a minor inconvenience, but I did have lodging where I could get things rinsed and dried out in my room. I did buy an umbrella but should have splurged on better quality, even if I would end up abandoning it.

Best packing advice I ever received: take half as many clothes, and twice as much money, as you think you'll need.

>My dad talks of regular Nuclear War drills in elementary school.

The boomer generation covers 18 years. While such drills may have been common for those in school during the 1950s, I suspect it was much less by the 1960s.

>Yes, there is a five year waiting period to withdraw contributions from a Roth IRA

No, there is not. Per IRS Publication 590-B, "You don't include in your gross income qualified distributions or distributions that are a return of your regular contributions from your Roth IRA(s)."

There is no five year clock for withdrawing your own Roth contributions. Contributions (not earnings or conversions) can be withdrawn at any time with no tax or penalty.

I just finished re-reading this a month ago. In the book, the process went a little further. The books were shredded into confetti-sized pieces first, then as the shreds were blown about in the air, many photos were taken, and then AI was used to stitch the fragmentary pieces of text together into the original pages.

Perhaps related to a recent change, where you now must be logged in to IMDB.com in order to view the User Reviews for movies.