(ThyBlackMan.com) Of the 150,493,263 filers who submitted individual income tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service for the 2015 tax year, only 99,040,729 paid any income tax at all. Together, those Americans paid a record $1,457,891,441,000 in total income taxes — for an average of $14,720 per taxpayer. The other 51,452,534 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Republican party has an important test in front of them: Will GOP lawmakers protect seniors and small businesses from looming Obamacare taxes, or will they let politicking and bureaucracy get in the way of action? As I’ve written about previously, Obamacare imposed hefty hidden new taxes on American-made medical devices ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This is an issue that isn’t often discussed, possibly because many people are aware that the news isn’t good. The basic problem here is that we often assume that getting out of debt is the end of the battle, when it isn’t. You might fight and claw your way free ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When an accident occurs, it is very important to determine who was at fault. Each of the parties involved and their insurance companies will want to know who has to foot the repair bill. If personal injuries occur or a life is lost, there is even more incentive for finding ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) About a year into President Donald Trump’s first term, the jury for much of the country and for most of the major media has returned its verdict: Trump is a failure. Trump is incompetent. Trump cannot lead. Trump has no legislative victories. Even former President Jimmy Carter said he had ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the things that people don’t always realize when shopping for a steel building is that the roof design is selectable based on several options. Changing a steel building from looking boxy to one that takes on the appearance of a regular residential home or converted office building makes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Simeon Booker, a trailblazing Black journalist, who covered the civil rights movement for the iconic African-American magazines Ebony and Jet and was the first Black person to work as a full-time Washington Post reporter, has died. Booker, who’s credited with playing an integral role in delivering the story of Emmett ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republicans are supposed to be the party that cuts the job-killing capital gains tax, not raises it. But because of a quirk in the Senate-passed tax bill, the tax on capital gains may go up — and for some types of long-held assets, fairly substantially. Most members of Congress don’t ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some of us prefer the finer things in life, and when it comes to real estate this couldn’t be more true. Real estate offers us so much in terms of luxurious properties, it can sometimes be hard to know which ones to either buy or invest in. The great thing ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If it’s true that President Obama’s economy was anemic because he “inherited the worst recession since World War II” from former President George W Bush, the so-called “Great Recession,” how do you explain the fact that Trump has presided over three consecutive quarters of economic growth of 3 percent or ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) (“Excerpts from the book titled, “The Fix This Time”). Tucked into this current tax bill Republicans are working hard to get passed Congress is a reduction in our Social Security income. The reduction has to do with how much of a boost in income retirees will receive as inflation rises. ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.” Thomas Jefferson said that about slavery, but he might well have been talking about what is now happening in Donald Trump’s Washington. Republicans are putting the finishing touches on a tax bill ...