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at the doctor's office this morning.
I was waiting in the lobby to have the morphine in my pump turned up by .2mg/day and was talking to a gentleman older than I was. (so was his wife)
We were talking about how hot it was and how hot it had been and how hot is was going to be....(it's hot here in the SE right now). That's when I learned that is was NASA's fault it was/is/gonna be so "dadgummed" hot. "They been knocking holes in the trionusfear with all them missles. If God wanted people on the moon he would have made a ladder up to it and/or given them wings.
Then he got to talking about taxes. Said he was retierd Army and retired Postal. The old man got up and showed me his check book where he had penned in depostis for what looked about right for retirement checks. Then I learned another interesting fact. He said that if you had two government retirement checks (fed/fed, fed/state/, fed/county) that when you started to draw your social security that they (the social security people) would take back 2/3 of it in taxes.
When I got home it did some "looking into" what I had learned. Not the stuff about the ladders and wings (I already knew that), but the taxes. I could only find where that if you filed a joint return and your adjusted income was over $44K that you might have to pay taxes on up 85% of your SS check.
I googled and snopes'd that stuff about NASA, but gor zero results. Anyone have anything to add to his words of wisdom?
SC
I was waiting in the lobby to have the morphine in my pump turned up by .2mg/day and was talking to a gentleman older than I was. (so was his wife)
We were talking about how hot it was and how hot it had been and how hot is was going to be....(it's hot here in the SE right now). That's when I learned that is was NASA's fault it was/is/gonna be so "dadgummed" hot. "They been knocking holes in the trionusfear with all them missles. If God wanted people on the moon he would have made a ladder up to it and/or given them wings.
Then he got to talking about taxes. Said he was retierd Army and retired Postal. The old man got up and showed me his check book where he had penned in depostis for what looked about right for retirement checks. Then I learned another interesting fact. He said that if you had two government retirement checks (fed/fed, fed/state/, fed/county) that when you started to draw your social security that they (the social security people) would take back 2/3 of it in taxes.
When I got home it did some "looking into" what I had learned. Not the stuff about the ladders and wings (I already knew that), but the taxes. I could only find where that if you filed a joint return and your adjusted income was over $44K that you might have to pay taxes on up 85% of your SS check.
I googled and snopes'd that stuff about NASA, but gor zero results. Anyone have anything to add to his words of wisdom?
SC
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