(ThyBlackMan.com) Christmas is about the birth of Christ and a time for friends and family to come together. Well, that’s what Christmas is about when you have money in your pockets or swipeable credit cards in your purse. For those who do not have an excess of money to spend for ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The price of education just seems to keep rising. When you take a look at the current job market and note the hundreds of thousands of graduates who are out of work at the moment, it can be easy to lose faith in the educational system. It’s not surprising that ...
(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) The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act recently passed on a nearly straight party line Republican vote in the U.S. Senate is, like the House-passed bill, a moral abomination. Their enactment would be the death of America’s dream for tens of millions of children. The House and Senate bills favor the ...
(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) Do you lack the control to keep your finances in check? It can be frustrating when you know you need to make changes but keep falling short regardless. So what’s causing your lack of financial control? Is it entirely your own fault or are there other factors at work here? ...
(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 ...