Yeah, I think it's really weird. Maybe a way to help give the bills "spin" and gain support. Honestly, though, I think there are bigger things to worry about.
Wow! I remember learning about these Jim Crow laws--e.g. you could only vote if your grandfather could vote. I never made the connection between the practice and the word.
For master/slave alternatives, slave is probably much more loaded then master, but alternatives exist for both.
Lufthansa at least has Rail & Fly where for €60 return you can add a DB train ticket to the flight. The ticket gets you from anywhere to the airport and back. Since the train and flight are booked on the same ticket, if there is a train delay (or flight delay returning) you will get rebooked on the next flight as if you had taken a flight. It's pretty great, I would recommend it.
It is a thing in the US too. For example, I have to pay income tax on the annual "fitness reimbursement allowance" the company provides for us.
Very simplified version: we can spend up to $1k/yr on fitness related expenses and get them reimbursement. We submit a reimbursement request, and if it gets approved, I get the money back in my account. The HR page explicitly warns that any reimbursement received will count towards your income tax.
FYI that's just closer to periodically investing. Dollar Cost averaging is more along the lines of "I already have $100 in my account and will invest $10/month for 10 months."
According to Investopedia: "A perfect example of dollar cost averaging is its use in 401(k) plans...an employee can select a pre-determined amount of their salary..."
You mean for free file forms you don't like getting an email with some incomprehensible language? Oh, don't worry they provide a tool. Just copy the _entire_ email they send you and paste in some tool.
Genuinely it is a horrible experience, but I suppose it is better filing by paper and waiting a few weeks for a small correction.
Well, I thought so too. Until I realized six months later that I hadn't gotten my refund. Turns out that I'd gotten an email shortly after submission that had gone unnoticed saying that my return had failed xml validation, just like you. What was the point of the frontend validation before submission? Why isn't the full validation done before submission properly? Total nonsense.
I re-filed with paper... still hasn't showed up on the IRS website.
