The millions of asses in this country have stockpiled even more millions of guns and they leak onto the street. The assault weapons ban helped while it was in force and it should be passed again.

Tired of so many obsessed gun owners.

Has this been verified? I saw this elsewhere on Reddit and couldn’t figure out how to find the TikTok acct

The assault weapons ban helped ( and no I am not going to debate what an assault weapon is)

It helped, and then it was repealed

Is the center island raised up enough? The little roundabout on Edgewood was almost flush and people would drive over it

Grasso was maybe the most dangerous road in town. Lots of accidents so many that's why

Wow,I like it but would really like to see roads like Frontage and Ella Grasso subjected to that. Would that be feasible? (Not frontage before the hospital though - I guess that is ambulance route)

Oh cool. This is inspiring me to go biking up there

Oh, here is one , Airline trail ( biking allowed) to James Goodwin State forest (camping allowed.)

I’ve never done that trail though, but you made me curious to find out.

Oh, Farmington Canal State Park - it has camping

https://portal.ct.gov/DEEP/State-Parks/Parks/Farmington-Canal-State-Park-Trail/Camping

Edit - oh wait, it says camping then when you open the page, there isn’t mention of it. Oh well, there are state parks along or near the trail so there might be camping

Good question. I wonder if there are any camping sites along the Farmington Canal Heritage trail in CT. It’s a paved, off road trail that allows bikes, roller blades, pedestrians

CL&P shouldn’t be making it and should leave

So many business deductions. In those years I believe 100-percent of health insurance premiums could be deducted and on personal taxes the house mortgage deduction etc. Mileage on the trucks, all the costs. Tons of deductions for a trucking co. Hope they captured all of those. Office too, including home office space

Or just call together with your dad there, on speaker phone - very easy

Sometimes the IRS will completely discount the amount owed based on an analysis that shows he will be unlikely to earn more than he earns now during his lifetime. It’s called an offer in compromise and it permanently settles a tax bill for good, for less than what is owed.

Please tell your dad not to stress too much because though this is a drag, In the scheme of things, a tax situation like this is manageable. It’s going to be OK.

And once you get the bulk of this done, you can save money by using the taxpayer advocate’s office for any future probs.

It’s not quite like when you have a lawyer in other venues, you can talk to the IRS but they are legal representatives, so you might want to consult with them about it. If you question their work though you can reach out directly to IRS. Optima should be sharing all their correspondence or paperwork with you.

$4000 is a pretty steep fee.

Since you’d dad is living paycheck to paycheck now, optima or you can probably get him into a “currently uncollectible” status, which means no payments are collected until things change, or you can get on a payment plan that is reasonable and manageable. Either of those can prevent a lien filed by irs, which is good for credit - keeps credit clean.

Check all optima’s work though for any errors, missed deductions or missed credits.

Self employed people do have heavy burdens, so the $20k isn’t necessarily surprising. They pay 100-percent of social security etc. That’s 15-percent right there, before the main deductible. It’s a whopper for the self employed. .

Oh, also, the IRS has a tax payer advocate’s office in every state. In the future if you have any problems, say, he can’t make a monthly pmt, or you need new help, they can open a case file for you. They are generally very very good and very helpful.

Try DMing him. Or maybe he is off line at the moment

I’d vouch for this comment. The economic diversity in both towns is there, because until the pandemic hit, working class salaries could get you something for sure, in either town, even a couple of WalMart greeters could afford to buy something as long as they kept their eyes peeled. Sadly, the pandemic inflated house prices a lot here. Hopefully it won’t be permanent in terms of inclusion. The shoreline does not want to be Fairfield County.

Racial diversity is not big and neither town is happy about that so it would be better if we were more diverse.

I love them both. Public schools in both towns are excellent. I haven’t looked up the mill rates in a while but I did get the impression Guilford’s are getting a little high. The vibe people are talking about is a thing, a littje, but both Towns tend to be gentle kind people or try to foster that.

The old saying in Connecticut is this:

“Guilford for culture, Madison for class, Clinton for clams.”

They’ve changed somewhat over the decades though. At one time Guilford was just cranking out amazing artists and musicians

I would happily live in either of them

I had no idea Amtrak went straight to Newark. They should all have that. Very cool

The fresh produce at Edge of the Woods in New Haven often beats Stop and Shop prices, so that’s pretty good. And it’s gorgeous produce, much better.

You’re welcome

Well there could be some applications of the new law. What do you mean the officer was given immunity, though, do you mean he was denied immunity and the case against him can go forward?

They really know how to game their body cameras now. They say if not for the street camera, they might not have been able to piece this together.

They turn away, they use audio to make it sound like they are struggling when they’re not (“stop resisting!” when they’re actually lying there unconscious. ) It’s ridiculous. Sure didn’t take police long to figure that out

Ct 1040 form: 50 pages Irs 1040 form: two.

CT really needs to get over itself.,

(Yes, 50 is exaggerating, but it’s so wordy, complex, and long)

Ah, gee, you mentioned the one category that isn’t competitive at credit unions. Their savings acct interest rates and CDs are usually not competitive with banks. They offer great interest on checking accounts that are active though, unlike banks. I have totally free checking and make interest on it, so basically I am being paid by them to have a checking account. That’s common at credit unions.

For savings, though, I would look for high interest savings accounts at banks, especially online banks like Amex or Marcus or capital one.

I do recommend credit unions for every day checking, car loans house loans, personal lines of credit. Connex is good, Sikorsky is good too. There are a few good ones here

Edit: for investment accounts, don’t use newbies like Robin Hood and also any that charge you for trades, like Merril Lynch. Open an online account at one of the solid standard brokerage houses. Examples: Fidelity, Charles Schwab and TDAmeritrade all have user friendly platforms with just tons of guidance and analysis/research into securities to get you started. You can open an account with a dollar and they are free to buy and sell stocks and ETFs etc.

Brokers like Robin Hood offer so little. Their users run around the Internet scratching together research on potential stocks to buy and their security is untested. The others I recommended allow access to reports for free that would otherwise cost a small fortune to subscribe to from dozens of sources

Look for promos too. Fidelity just had one (maybe still going) where they’ll put $200 in your account if you open a new account with $50