Everyone hates taxes, or so it’s said, yet of the certain both death and taxes are included. The anti-tax crusaders bellow “no new taxes!” while the pro-tax crusaders sound apologetic. At best the pro-tax forces muster arguments about “fairness,” but this is not a terribly... Continue
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I’ve been back in New York City for a while visiting my mother. She’s nearing 89-years-old, slowing down and not quite up to whipping up a big dinner like she used to, so we’ve been going out to eat quite a bit. Having run the... Continue
Dear Bonnie: I got a letter from the IRS yesterday. They want to audit my 2009 income tax return. Why me? I just have a little business and barely get by. I’m a small fry. It scares me and I don’t even have anything to... Continue
Physicists generally agree the matter we can see and detect makes up only a small percentage of the total matter in the universe, something less than 17%. The remaining matter has been named “dark matter” because it cannot and has not been positively detected; its... Continue
America’s extended political primary process has been dubbed the “silly season,” but given the pronouncements of this year’s Republican candidates, “stupid season” is a more appropriate moniker. The various GOP candidates talk trash about everything from the TARP bailout to the recent budget fiasco, but... Continue
It is far better for members of a nonprofit organization’s leadership team to spend time planning ways to build a strong relationship with a donor than it is for them to plan how to get a donor or prospective donor to give money to their... Continue
Ringing, actually. Like millions of others, I suffer from tinnitus, in my case a continuous squeal of high-pitched hissing, sounding much like the steam valve in a turn-of-the-century radiator I lived with in my first one-room apartment in New York. Tinnitus affects millions of people,... Continue
The latest stocks falling into oblivion makes me want to eat potato chips. And on top of this, friends are getting sick or afraid of getting some disease. Losses abound and all the way around, I’m letting go. Housing, people dying, bank statements, friends relocating... Continue
Lucky for us the framers of the U.S. Constitution put happiness right near the top of the list, just under life and liberty. Had that not been the case, most of us would be in dead-end jobs we hate, buried in debt, beholden to others,... Continue
Dear Bonnie: I’ve been having a tax problem for a very long time. The IRS says I still owe for my 2008 income tax return and even though I sent a copy of my cancelled check several times already, they act like they never received... Continue