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Post by Biggles on Dec 3, 2023 16:01:21 GMT
I spent 6 months in a cheap motel in Houston after Ike. After about 2 months the vertigo started anytime I had to look up - even 6/12 roofs became scary. Anyway it continued to worsen after I came home. PT made it some better until our tv started strobing. You could turn it off for a second and the stove effect would go away, so replacement didn’t seem urgent. Meanwhile my vertigo was getting much worse until the tv was replaced. Slow moving fans in very high ceiling rooms are okay, but spot lights above the fans are the worst. Even ceiling light fan combo in rooms with 8 or 9 foot ceilings bring it on. Box fans are great and those Dyson fans are quiet and look cool. In a shorter answer: yep, really. Let me know your results. Sounds awful. Sorry you went through that. |
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Post by elmerfudd on Dec 22, 2023 23:02:08 GMT
Queen for a Day was truly an awful show. And the prizes were taxable, as all game show prizes are. At their retail value. I remember reading an article in a tax rag that one contestant's tax bill was beyond her means to pay without selling most of the prizes. Taxed at retail value, sold for far less than that, she ended up with barely enough proceeds to pay the tax generated. But I think she did get to keep a prize or two of relatively low value. Vaguely recall a proposed or actual change to the tax regs that would allow a recipient to immediately sell prizes in an arm's length transaction and be taxed on what he/she/it received and not the retail value. But it had to be immediately sold. Not used for a while and then sold. If it was proposed, not sure it ever passed. Long time ago.
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Post by Biggles on Dec 22, 2023 23:37:57 GMT
Queen for a Day was truly an awful show. And the prizes were taxable, as all game show prizes are. At their retail value. I remember reading an article in a tax rag that one contestant's tax bill was beyond her means to pay without selling most of the prizes. Taxed at retail value, sold for far less than that, she ended up with barely enough proceeds to pay the tax generated. But I think she did get to keep a prize or two of relatively low value. Vaguely recall a proposed or actual change to the tax regs that would allow a recipient to immediately sell prizes in an arm's length transaction and be taxed on what he/she/it received and not the retail value. But it had to be immediately sold. Not used for a while and then sold. If it was proposed, not sure it ever passed. Long time ago. How odd. I would have thought that the prizes should be taxed at their resale value, not at their retail value. |
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Post by DaveJavu on Dec 23, 2023 23:18:58 GMT
Queen for a Day was truly an awful show. And the prizes were taxable, as all game show prizes are. At their retail value. I remember reading an article in a tax rag that one contestant's tax bill was beyond her means to pay without selling most of the prizes. Taxed at retail value, sold for far less than that, she ended up with barely enough proceeds to pay the tax generated. But I think she did get to keep a prize or two of relatively low value. Vaguely recall a proposed or actual change to the tax regs that would allow a recipient to immediately sell prizes in an arm's length transaction and be taxed on what he/she/it received and not the retail value. But it had to be immediately sold. Not used for a while and then sold. If it was proposed, not sure it ever passed. Long time ago. That's your wretched country, again. In France, all game prizes, even the lottery, are tax free. So in France she could keep all her prizes. You wonder, why we make fun of Americans and their stupid political system? Stop wondering. |
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Post by Mercy for All on Dec 24, 2023 22:43:40 GMT
Queen for a Day was truly an awful show. And the prizes were taxable, as all game show prizes are. At their retail value. I remember reading an article in a tax rag that one contestant's tax bill was beyond her means to pay without selling most of the prizes. Taxed at retail value, sold for far less than that, she ended up with barely enough proceeds to pay the tax generated. But I think she did get to keep a prize or two of relatively low value. Vaguely recall a proposed or actual change to the tax regs that would allow a recipient to immediately sell prizes in an arm's length transaction and be taxed on what he/she/it received and not the retail value. But it had to be immediately sold. Not used for a while and then sold. If it was proposed, not sure it ever passed. Long time ago. That's your wretched country, again. In France, all game prizes, even the lottery, are tax free. So in France she could keep all her prizes. You wonder, why we make fun of Americans and their stupid political system? Stop wondering. Same in Canada. Lottery prizes, etc., are not taxed. |
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Post by elmerfudd on Dec 27, 2023 21:53:38 GMT
Queen for a Day was truly an awful show. And the prizes were taxable, as all game show prizes are. At their retail value. I remember reading an article in a tax rag that one contestant's tax bill was beyond her means to pay without selling most of the prizes. Taxed at retail value, sold for far less than that, she ended up with barely enough proceeds to pay the tax generated. But I think she did get to keep a prize or two of relatively low value. Vaguely recall a proposed or actual change to the tax regs that would allow a recipient to immediately sell prizes in an arm's length transaction and be taxed on what he/she/it received and not the retail value. But it had to be immediately sold. Not used for a while and then sold. If it was proposed, not sure it ever passed. Long time ago. That's your wretched country, again. In France, all game prizes, even the lottery, are tax free. So in France she could keep all her prizes. You wonder, why we make fun of Americans and their stupid political system? Stop wondering. "Wretched country," hunh. Were it not for this "wretched country" you clowns would be speaking German and flying a Nazi flag. |
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Post by DaveJavu on Dec 28, 2023 17:43:03 GMT
That's your wretched country, again. In France, all game prizes, even the lottery, are tax free. So in France she could keep all her prizes. You wonder, why we make fun of Americans and their stupid political system? Stop wondering. "Wretched country," hunh. Were it not for this "wretched country" you clowns would be speaking German and flying a Nazi flag. Bullshit, if not for De Gaulle that kicked your sorry asses out of this country, you'd still be occupying us and imposing who knows what kind of shit on us... ASSHOLES!!! Now, go fuck yourself, bastard!!! You're even dumber than your namesake (screen name wise). |
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Post by DaveJavu on Dec 28, 2023 17:51:15 GMT
That's your wretched country, again. In France, all game prizes, even the lottery, are tax free. So in France she could keep all her prizes. You wonder, why we make fun of Americans and their stupid political system? Stop wondering. "Wretched country," hunh. Were it not for this "wretched country" you clowns would be speaking German and flying a Nazi flag. Also you morons are lucky that you're far from everything in that shithole you call a country otherwise you'd be translating everything in Russian, Chinese and Japanese and paying tribute to these countries, dumb-fucking idiots as you are. In fact it still can and probably will happen, so enjoy your "freedom" for as long as it lasts, which may not be much longer, fucker. |
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Post by Monster Man on Dec 29, 2023 6:19:15 GMT
Queen for a Day was truly an awful show. And the prizes were taxable, as all game show prizes are. At their retail value. I remember reading an article in a tax rag that one contestant's tax bill was beyond her means to pay without selling most of the prizes. Taxed at retail value, sold for far less than that, she ended up with barely enough proceeds to pay the tax generated. But I think she did get to keep a prize or two of relatively low value. Vaguely recall a proposed or actual change to the tax regs that would allow a recipient to immediately sell prizes in an arm's length transaction and be taxed on what he/she/it received and not the retail value. But it had to be immediately sold. Not used for a while and then sold. If it was proposed, not sure it ever passed. Long time ago. That's your wretched country, again. In France, all game prizes, even the lottery, are tax free. So in France she could keep all her prizes. You wonder, why we make fun of Americans and their stupid political system? Stop wondering. So... the average French person pays more in taxes on everything they make, but if you are one of the lucky lottery winners... then you don't? Yes, oh how so much better. Also, France takes a large cut of the ticket sales before they ever get to the prize fund, just like most others do. |
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Post by DaveJavu on Dec 29, 2023 11:17:09 GMT
That's your wretched country, again. In France, all game prizes, even the lottery, are tax free. So in France she could keep all her prizes. You wonder, why we make fun of Americans and their stupid political system? Stop wondering. So... the average French person pays more in taxes on everything they make, but if you are one of the lucky lottery winners... then you don't? Yes, oh how so much better. Also, France takes a large cut of the ticket sales before they ever get to the prize fund, just like most others do. The point being, stupid, that the winner of a prize, especially if that prize is an object, doesn't have to sell it in order to pay for its taxes because the taxes have already been paid upfront by the organizer, which then can't boast about money they're "giving you" that will later be taken away by the state. That's how you prove to everyone that you're an idiot, by constantly missing the point, like you just did here. |
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