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  • Kintsugi
  • February 27, 2021February 27, 2021

Your 2021 Tax Brackets vs. 2020 Tax Brackets

John Waggoner, AARP, Updated January 28, 2021  You might be filling out your tax return for 2020, but you’re living in tax year 2021, and tax year 2021 has substantial differences from

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  • Kintsugi
  • December 30, 2020December 30, 2020

Tax Tips for 2020

As 2020 comes to a close, finally, many of us start thinking about taxes. We should have thought about tax-saving strategies at the start of the year, but, you know, we were too busy worrying about

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  • Prof Patty
  • October 11, 2020

17 States With Estate or Inheritance Taxes

by John Waggoner, AARP, October 5, 2020 Eleven states have only an estate tax: Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washingto

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NY Times

  • Bank of America Pays $72.5 Million to Settle Lawsuit by Epstein Victims
  • Clavicular, an Internet Narcissus, Is Arrested After Posting a Fight Video
  • U.S. Antitank Mines Discovered in Neighborhood in Iran
  • We Analyzed the Deadly Crash at LaGuardia
  • Judge Agrees to Drop Charges Against Officers in Breonna Taylor’s Death

NPR

  • Scientists watch sperm whales work as a team to assist a birth
  • Trump's attacks on offshore wind could hurt infrastructure spending across the economy
  • Asia boosts coal use as Iran war squeezes global LNG supplies
  • The oldest known recording of a whale song reveals how oceans have changed
  • This week's Short Wave news roundup

The Progressive

  • The World Cup Needs an ICE Truce
  • Israel Can’t Bomb Its Way to Peace
  • Americans Are United Against Trump’s War
  • Our digital lives have hidden costs
  • Address Affordability, Give Farmers a Chance

FactCheck.org

  • Competing Claims on SAVE America Act Disenfranchising Voters
  • Q&A on the SAVE America Act
  • EPA’s Misleading Claim of $1.3 Trillion in Deregulatory ‘Savings’
  • No Broad Autism Approval for Leucovorin, Despite FDA Commissioner’s Prior Suggestions
  • How Iran Blocking the Strait of Hormuz Affects the U.S.

Snopes.com

  • Video shows LA residents chasing away ICE agents?
  • Iranian AI slop propaganda video presents Trump and Netanyahu as Lego characters
  • Say 'see ya later, alligator' to Facebook post of gators flooding Missouri town's streets
  • Inspecting alleged Trump Truth Social post saying he's no longer interested in making Canada the 51st state
  • Hegseth's pastor said he wants Democratic Texas Rep. James Talarico 'crucified.' Here's context

Tradeoffs

  • Generic Drugs Head to the Supreme Court
  • Inside the Urgent Care Boom
  • ‘It Sucks’: Spiking Health Insurance Costs Hit Small Businesses
  • 'We Can’t Afford All These Humans’: A Doctor's Take on AI in Health Care
  • Immigration Enforcement’s Twin Threats to Health Care

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