By FortuneFaded Go To Postlol wow
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By FortuneFaded Go To PostDy ending the year with an erection and a smug smile
By Pac-12 Go To Post2020: Can 4 years of old white people dying help erase 2016?
By Pac-12 Go To Post2020: Can 4 years of old white people dying help erase 2016?Let's check in with the recent British elections
By reilo Go To PostLet's check in with the recent British elections
Those limey bastards are the litmus test? We fought 2 goddamn wars to free ourselves from British tyranny. Never forget.
By reilo Go To PostLet's check in with the recent British elections
We even knighted the guy who destroyed the social safety nets and is partially responsible for 120,000 British deaths. ISIS would be licking their lips at that sort of death-toll.
By JesalR Go To PostWhen a campaign ends, and there are funds left over, what happens to that money?
https://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/leftover-campaign-funds/
Q: What happens to a candidate’s leftover campaign funds when he or she drops out of the race?
A: The big rule is: no personal use.
FULL QUESTION
Do candidates for elected office keep donations to their campaigns for personal use after they lose or drop out? Or do those donations have to go into a greater party fund?
FULL ANSWER
As Bob Biersack from the Federal Election Commission points out, most candidates don’t have much left over to begin with. Campaigning is expensive, and “leftover” money gets used for bills and debts first, including expenses incurred while winding down an abandoned campaign or a lost political office.
Candidates do sometimes end up with surplus funds, though, particularly if they’re incumbent members of Congress who decide not to run for another term. State and local governments have their own rules, but those running for federal office — including presidential candidates — must abide by strict FEC guidelines when it comes to their extra campaign money. They can donate an unlimited amount to a charity or political party. They can also, within limits, make contributions directly to other candidates. A campaign committee can give up to $2000 per election to each candidate. If the committee is converted into a political action committee, the limit jumps to $5000 – but to be established as a PAC, the committee would have to be in existence for six months, receive contributions from 50 donors, and make contributions to five recipients.
What candidates can’t do with leftover money is use it for personal expenses. Retiring federal lawmakers used to be able to pocket extra cash and use it for cars, vacations, clothes, pet grooming, whatever — but that changed in 1989 with the passage of the Ethics Reform Act.
– Jess Henig
By Laboured Go To PostThis is the year*
*that i finally respond to stupid facebook comments to climate deniers and their bs comments/sources of 'but we've heard gloom and doom for at least 50 years and we are still here'.
By Laboured Go To Post
My world's on fire, how about yours
That's the way I like it and I'll never get bored
HEY NOW
By JesalR Go To PostWhen a campaign ends, and there are funds left over, what happens to that money?
In some decent news:
The fact that the IRS wasn't allowed to make its own free tax filing software until now because of a private company's lobbying efforts shows you how trash capitalism can be.
On Monday, the IRS released an addendum to its Free File program — the agreement with tax preparation companies intended to keep tax filing free — that now prohibits these companies from hiding the pages that allow you to file for free from Google and other search engines. They’ve also eliminated a restriction against the IRS making its own filing software.https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/1/21045779/irs-turbotax-free-file-h-r-block-tax-preparation-new-rules
In several other countries, filing your taxes is a lot easier. The government uses data it already has on your income to fill out your taxes. But in the United States, Intuit has spent millions each year lobbying against these simpler systems which would eliminate the need for their services. Tax industry lobbying was how the IRS’s Free File was initially created, with the IRS agreeing to leave it up to those companies.
The Free File program initially said that filing software had to allow lower- and middle-income taxpayers to be able to file for free. In return, the IRS agreed to not make its own free filing software, something that the tax preparation companies thought could be a big competitor to their business. The new addendum also requires all these tax preparation companies to give their truly free options a specific badge: “IRS Free File program delivered by [Member company name or product name],” so you can tell them apart from other versions which might sneakily require you to pay.
The fact that the IRS wasn't allowed to make its own free tax filing software until now because of a private company's lobbying efforts shows you how trash capitalism can be.
The US is so backwards in some stuff. Here in Portugal, it's pretty much all done for you. You just have to log in to a website, confirm that everything is right and submit it. Takes all of 2 minutes.
By FortuneFaded Go To PostI can’t even use most of the private ones because I’m a non-resident
Athlete tax dudes have to do some serious work. Gotta fill one out for each state worked, and lots are non residents lol.
If you ever move states for a job halfway into a year, your taxes are gonna be fun. Also, don't forget to change your address ASAP unless you wanna pay income taxes in both.
By LFMartins86 Go To PostThe US is so backwards in some stuff. Here in Portugal, it's pretty much all done for you. You just have to log in to a website, confirm that everything is right and submit it. Takes all of 2 minutes.Plenty of stuff. We just yell about how free we are and use the lowest possible of bars to say we're better than some developing country. Shit is definitely catching up to us and fast.
By NinjaFridge Go To PostTo think if this had happened 5 years ago I could've have shook her hand at my graduation.
Could you have even been able to wash that off afterwards?
Ohhh god I’m so over impeachment after this two week break. Wake me up when he’s impeached for a second time in 2021
Roberts intervening is political fanfic
Roberts intervening is political fanfic
By Facism Go To PostCould you have even been able to wash that off afterwards?Would obviously wear a glove
By Fenderputty Go To PostOhhh god I’m so over impeachment after this two week break. Wake me up when he’s impeached for a second time in 2021
Roberts intervening is political fanfic
By Lunatic Go To Post
Mane, I’ve been on the impeached but not removed wagon since this all started. Dems got their impeachment and sound bites, let’s get to the election.
By FortuneFaded Go To PostDY forgot to log out of his altYearly reminder that we are all dy alts
Why is Trumpet banning vaping anyway? Every vapist I've seen out there is definitely a Republican. This might turn the election.
By JesalR Go To Postummmmm was he in iraq because whoa lol
holy shit i wonder if that's true. that's..... a lot
By HasphatsAnts Go To PostAbout to get dragged into a war with Iran by a president under impeachment.trump is congress' blank check
Tremendous
By DY_nasty Go To Postummmmm was he in iraq because whoa lolApparently in Baghdad
holy shit i wonder if that's true. that's….. a lot
By inky Go To PostWhy is Trumpet banning vaping anyway? Every vapist I've seen out there is definitely a Republican. This might turn the election.Oh nvm. Crisis averted.