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ValZacs
| Favorite team: | Valparaiso  |
| Location: | Zachary/Valpo |
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| Interests: | what else is there |
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| Number of Posts: | 801 |
| Registered on: | 1/3/2009 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: How are SALT Deductions Legal?
Posted by ValZacs on 6/2/26 at 7:42 pm to CubsFanBudMan
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You are allowed to deduct the larger of your actual state income tax or a calculated estimate of sales tax as an itemized deduction. The deduction is also capped at $10k, which the blue states hate.
Not for 2025 tax year. $40K cap w/income parameters.
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re: How are SALT Deductions Legal?
Posted by ValZacs on 6/2/26 at 5:15 pm to TheMagicMan
Well, first you have to have enough deductions to use Schedule A, or you can’t claim it anyway. So, state and local income taxes as well as property taxes can be itemized just like mortgage interest, medical expenses above a certain % threshold, etc. But if it doesn’t exceed your std deductiin, combined, you get nothing anyway.
re: How are SALT Deductions Legal?
Posted by ValZacs on 6/2/26 at 5:06 pm to TheMagicMan
You are on the wrong path here. Salt deductions are not a direct tax deduction but rather a reduction in taxable income.
re: No more pesky inspection stickers
Posted by ValZacs on 5/14/26 at 3:23 pm to bayouteche
So if, in effect, the bill eliminates the inspection program/sticker requirement, what purpose does the $6 QR code serve?
So, in other words, status quo, just adding in additional layers of bureaucracy
re: Gas finally reached $4.99/gallon up here in NE Indiana…
Posted by ValZacs on 4/30/26 at 9:37 pm to finchmeister08
$4.77 over here in NW Indiana
re: Missiles incoming in Israel
Posted by ValZacs on 4/7/26 at 6:58 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
They have any idea of origination point?
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Where is this one in geographic relation to Hormuz?
Random - the story of my life.
That’s my first cousin’s grandson at 2B for LaTech. Proud of that young man.
re: What are gas prices in your area?
Posted by ValZacs on 3/24/26 at 4:50 pm to CatsGoneWild
$4.09-$4.29 NWI. Just accross the border into IL @ $4.39, climbing the closer you get to Chicago.
This particular solar farm is about 10 miles south of me, south of the Kankakee River. The tornado also took some outbuildings on my SIL property as well.
Farmers were leasing out these fields left and right to solar companies, easy money they say. The last 3 or so years the communities have started fighting these things hard. Besides the physical environmental issues they can cause is the noise they generate. You can hear them buzzing from miles away and it is 24/7.
WIndmill farms are a bit further south and west.
Farmers were leasing out these fields left and right to solar companies, easy money they say. The last 3 or so years the communities have started fighting these things hard. Besides the physical environmental issues they can cause is the noise they generate. You can hear them buzzing from miles away and it is 24/7.
WIndmill farms are a bit further south and west.
Dang that’s a pretty strong profit for a base line revenue increase
That’s revenue, not profit, and is well below % ticket price increases over that time span.
Think i know the company. My navy nuke background got me into the pump industry too. Thomas comes to mind. We helped them on some ITT-AC parts probably 10-15 years ago.
That’s quite a lot more than what they offered us in the early 80’s.
re: Navy dudes: My son is considering the Navy as a “nuke.”
Posted by ValZacs on 3/3/26 at 9:24 pm to Stat M Repairman
When I did it, it didn’t work that way. You went from boot camp to a-school to nuke school to prototype. The path is clear-cut, or was. I did get a break between nuke and prototype for a month, got to work at the recruiter office in Bon Marche while waiting on class in ID to start.
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He got a 99 overall on his ASVAB
Then he is well on his way, just keep the hs gpa up, too. All that said, don’t discount the common sense as well. You have classroom first, where some don’t make it. But then you have the prototype phase, and this requires the ability to actually use the a-school(elect/mech) and nuke school training in a hnds-on application.
I am 67 now so I know things have changed, but I give 100% credit to my time in as to who I am today. The training alone opens up so many possibilities.
I did it. Was an MM2/SS nuke billet, ‘77-‘83.
Someone posted earlier, as was at the time I was in, you could go the machinists, electrician or control tech route. Nuke school was in Orlando at the time, either 6 or nine months think 6. In that timeframe you pretty much get 4 years of core college degree education. After classroom, did my prototype phase in wonderful Idaho Falls, ID. Rhen onto SS new construction. After getting out I worked nuc generating stations around the country for years and made excellent money. The education is top notch, the food is fantastic.
High asvab scores and college prep hs courses - calc, physics, chemistry- are very beneficial to getting accepted.
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Someone posted earlier, as was at the time I was in, you could go the machinists, electrician or control tech route. Nuke school was in Orlando at the time, either 6 or nine months think 6. In that timeframe you pretty much get 4 years of core college degree education. After classroom, did my prototype phase in wonderful Idaho Falls, ID. Rhen onto SS new construction. After getting out I worked nuc generating stations around the country for years and made excellent money. The education is top notch, the food is fantastic.
High asvab scores and college prep hs courses - calc, physics, chemistry- are very beneficial to getting accepted.
Edit: spelling
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