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Firebird05
Member
08-24-2001
| Tuesday, January 02, 2018 - 5:01 pm 
When I first started in accounting I worked for a CPA who told me “ to do this job you need to leave logic behind and forget everything you know about math”.
That was 30 some years ago. I didn’t last long.
Now days not even my CPA or the IRS can answer my questions.
Since no one who voted for it has read it, let alone understands it, it should be great.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Tuesday, January 02, 2018 - 7:54 pm
Sea, I have been asked that several times, and also paid our second half early! But the rest of the changes don't come into play until 2018 taxes (due April 2019) for the majority of individuals so I'm ignoring all that until this tax season is over!
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Tuesday, January 02, 2018 - 7:58 pm
when we get a democrat back into office cant he/she repeal these crzy trump tax laws?
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, January 02, 2018 - 8:56 pm
Just be careful asssuming that just because you paid your taxes early you can take the deduction in the year you paid them. It depends on where you live. It's only valid if they have already been officially assessed.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, January 02, 2018 - 9:24 pm
Yep, for California, at least up here, they were assessed in late October. Unfortunately mine went up considerably so I just paid the one installment.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, January 02, 2018 - 9:29 pm
Pamy, the Democrats could very well re-take both houses of Congress as early as November 2018. It will be an exhausting effort to do it, and then an exhausting effort after that to get the tax law replaced and then to create affordable health care for ALL Americans, to re-staff all of the offices left unfilled during this past year, to re-build relationships with America's former, now estranged and bewildered, allies, and a myriad of other things most of America never even thought imaginable could go to hell in just one year.
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Tuesday, January 02, 2018 - 11:29 pm
ahhhh ty for the info Juju!
Dipo, its the same in OC and Im pretty sure all of ca..I work for the Assessor
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, January 03, 2018 - 7:44 am
I worked for tax lawyers for 31 years...they learn to be fast on their feet and since they are usually the smartest of attorneys (at least that's what they told me...LOL!) and a lot of them are also CPAs, they can usually figure it out pretty well. After all, they overpay associates to figure stuff like that out!
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, January 03, 2018 - 9:57 am
The Dems may retake the House, but they will have a much harder time in the Senate.
Even if they do have a simple majority in the Senate, they can't get a super majority and Trump can veto anything they pass.
So, keep working, but we may be stuck until 2020.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Wednesday, January 03, 2018 - 10:24 am
Roxip, LOL attorney stuff. I once worked for wife of then-future Commissioner of the IRS. NOT enjoyable working for her. Look up Mark W. Everson. That's a story. 
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, January 03, 2018 - 12:41 pm
New Q: So for some reason I have been craving pancakes, now I rarely have any pancakes and when I do go out for breakfast I will have one pancake instead of the muffin/toast offered.
So I was looking at frozen pancakes and a bunch of waffles came up, I haven't ever had a waffle, which lead me to wonder....what is the difference between pancakes and waffles?
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, January 03, 2018 - 1:06 pm
The way they're cooked I think is the only difference. I use a pancake mix to make both and there is no difference in the way that you mix them.
Last year on Kid's Baking Championship they had a waffle v. pancake competition which I rewatched this week. Funny you should ask that!
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Wednesday, January 03, 2018 - 2:50 pm
1. Waffles don't taste as good.
2. Waffles are stiff. You can eat them as 'finger food'.
3. Waffle irons are awkward to use and difficult to clean.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, January 03, 2018 - 3:08 pm
!. Waffles taste just as good or better. 
2. You can eat waffles with your fingers, or slather them with butter and syrup. Or better yet, strawberries and whipped cream.
3. I agree about waffle irons, hard to clean. But if you are buying them frozen, you can make them easily enough in the toaster!
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, January 03, 2018 - 3:19 pm
My waffle iron (which is a replica of the Great State of Texas) isn't hard to clean. I think my waffles taste better because they are shaped like Texas...LOL!
Personally I like them with lot fat Jiff peanut butter and just a touch of syrup.
I'm hopeless at making pancakes.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, January 03, 2018 - 3:44 pm
LMAO, so it sounds like it doesn't matter. Maybe I will buy a small amount of both and do a comparison test. This is what happens when I do my shopping while hungry. Off to make some lunch.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, January 03, 2018 - 3:45 pm
I like them both! 
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Wednesday, January 03, 2018 - 4:06 pm
Pancakes are excellent and superbly delicious. This applies only to pancakes at a restaurant as home pancakes suck and never taste or look right. Acceptable toppings are excessive warm/melted butter, warm maple syrup, fresh raspberries, a bit of whipped cream or the occasional dash of boysenberry syrup may be used for a few bites. The pancakes must be buttered all over immediately. Syrup is then poured only over a small area that you are eating then the next few bites are syruped, then the next, etc.
Waffles are quite tasty and are to be eaten only at home. As with pancakes, much butter is to be applied. Raspberries are heaped onto the aforementioned waffle, warmed first if not fresh and then maple syrup. Once again, syrup in small areas.
Waffle iron is cleaned by husband so I have no issues. I won the waffle iron as a work prize. The problem with waffles is that only 1 can be made at a time so hubby puts them in the oven to keep warm but I don't think they are as hot as I would like them to be that way and I think they get a bit stiff.
Nice crispy bacon should also be served and if having eggs they MUST be scrambled dry/well or fried hard with the yolk evenly distributed over the white.
Runny eggs are the devil's sinus infection.
The 1st time my hubby and I went out for breakfast and he ordered sunny side up eggs I nearly ran screaming into the cold midwestern morning. A friend convinced me to see him again. I still can't stand those runny eggs and try not to sit across from him.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, January 03, 2018 - 5:13 pm
LOL, Sugar, excellent descriptions and directions.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Wednesday, January 03, 2018 - 6:28 pm
Thank you.  Obviously, I am quite particular in the ways of pancakes and waffles.
I am thinking we may be having waffles this weekend!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, January 04, 2018 - 5:56 am
Pancakes get soggy, while waffles are less likely to do thst.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, January 04, 2018 - 7:35 am
We had waffles New Year's morning...and crispy bacon. With melted butter.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Thursday, January 04, 2018 - 8:49 am
I like the sogginess of pancakes.
Syrup only lays in the waffle holes. The rest of the waffle remains dry. When you cut the waffle the syrup splashes off the waffle.
You need a knife to cut pieces of waffle. The pancakes separate with a fork.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, January 04, 2018 - 9:50 am
Properly cooked waffles are crisp on the outside but soft on the inside...
Having said that IHOP's Harvest Grain and Nut Pancakes are truly one of the wonders of the world!
Anybody else hungry at this point?
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, January 04, 2018 - 10:27 am
Roxip, I love those Harvest Grain and Nut pancakes too... the best pancakes I've ever had.
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