A few weeks ago, around 8:45 A.M., I announced to Mr. AOW: "I'm headed upstairs to work on our tax return."
Mr. AOW replied in a downcast voice: "I won't be seeing you till tonight. And you'll be in a terrible mood."
That pattern — work on taxes for hours on end (data entry into Quicken, into customized categories for both my business and our medical expenses), followed by becoming the grouch of the year — has held for over a decade.
That is, until the tax reform law that President Trump sponsored took full effect.
At 11:45 A.M., I joyfully danced down the stairs. Mr. AOW was in shock — pleasant shock. I was ecstatic. I love that provision for the increased standard deduction.
Thank you, President Trump!
Another reason to thank President Trump... Public charge': Trump enforces rule linking immigrant welfare use to green card chances. Excerpt below the fold (emphases mine).
Mr. AOW replied in a downcast voice: "I won't be seeing you till tonight. And you'll be in a terrible mood."
That pattern — work on taxes for hours on end (data entry into Quicken, into customized categories for both my business and our medical expenses), followed by becoming the grouch of the year — has held for over a decade.
That is, until the tax reform law that President Trump sponsored took full effect.
At 11:45 A.M., I joyfully danced down the stairs. Mr. AOW was in shock — pleasant shock. I was ecstatic. I love that provision for the increased standard deduction.
Thank you, President Trump!
Another reason to thank President Trump... Public charge': Trump enforces rule linking immigrant welfare use to green card chances. Excerpt below the fold (emphases mine).
Conservatives have been trying for decades to create an immigration system that rewards immigrants who won’t be a burden on society and discourages those who will.
The Trump administration is taking a major step toward that goal Monday when the “public charge” rule takes effect, giving U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services the authority to refuse green cards — the key step on the path to citizenship — to people who have used a wide range of nonemergency welfare programs.
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Like most of President Trump’s other immigration moves, this one has survived an onslaught of court challenges, howls of complaints from Democrats on Capitol Hill and fierce opposition of immigration rights groups, who called it racist and elitist.
The administration said the vision of self-sufficient immigrants has been part of the American vision since Colonial times and was explicitly written into law in 1882, when Congress banned any immigrant who was “unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge.”...

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