CalvinBall wrote:How many people

PrattRules wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:How many people

20ish

Philly the Kid wrote:

Youseff wrote:Amtrak NYC to Philly should not be $114. Ridiculous. With two people (and a puppy) in two directions it ends up being cheaper to rent a car.

I hate to be that old guy - but when I was taking train to NYC all the time and then living in Manhattan and going the other way, it was $36 round trip. $24 and half off for the other way $12.

The local from 30th to Trenton, then Trenton to NYC was $10.

It's a damn crime that the rail industry was decimated which is basically the doing of GM post WWII.

I'm for a total revamp of green rail, and nationalize airlines too. Regulate them. Subsidize them. And get people out of cars and make air travel reliable, safe and not crazy priced. I'm also open to not being able to fly non-stop to a lot of places 3 times a day 7 days a week if the demand isn't there.

If we had trains that for some portions of the travel could get up to 300mph, then in 3 hours you've done 1/3 the nation. For me in Calif, with fam and friends in NY Phila. DC etc... I'd do trains if it only took say day and half... and I'd make flight changes if it meant I could afford it and it was safe and I had sufficeient leg room to not get thrombosis.

Private train and Private air, and transportation in general, is nuts. If we need it as part of modern day life, cut the military bs pork and stop subsidizing Pharma and let's rebuild infrastructure and make trains and planes, and single payer health care, and lots of things for the common good. Subsidize as needed. Tax the rich, tax the corps. That's a healthy nation with enough for all and not the lifestyle of a Pharoah for a select few... but I digress...

Phila-NYC on train should never be over $65 round-trip even in 2017.

Slowhand wrote:Had a series of disturbing dreams last night and now I don't feel real good about myself.

Soren wrote:SPEAKING OF TAXES I had to file a dispute over my 1098-T from Albright. They filed it saying I was a graduate student (I wasn't!). With the wrong information I owe ~$550, with the correct information it's a $400 refund.

BigEd76 wrote:Whatever that song is that Wawa's been using in their commercials for the past year, Volkswagen is now using it for their Jetta commercials too, so if you aren't looking at the screen, you don't know which commercial it is until about 5 seconds in

Soren wrote:SPEAKING OF TAXES I had to file a dispute over my 1098-T from Albright. They filed it saying I was a graduate student (I wasn't!). With the wrong information I owe ~$550, with the correct information it's a $400 refund.

Bill McNeal wrote:

Soren wrote:SPEAKING OF TAXES I had to file a dispute over my 1098-T from Albright. They filed it saying I was a graduate student (I wasn't!). With the wrong information I owe ~$550, with the correct information it's a $400 refund.

I've mentioned it before that for some reason the IRS makes me withhold as a single person with no exemptions. So I get huge tax refunds every year, this year it's $12k, I efiled 3 weeks ago and I'm still waiting for my refund, I went on the refund tracker and it says there is a problem with my refund. I called the IRS and the first person I talked to told me there was a hold on my refund because I didn't file my taxes at some point and I need to resubmit the return to clear the hold. She can't tell me what year it is, so I had to call another number and after 2 hours on hold, they hung up on me. I have all of my prior year tax returns, I do them in hr block going back to 2011, so I don't know when I didn't supposedly do a tax return and I don't know what year to send them, but the fun part of it is, even when I send it to them, it will take 6-12 weeks to then release my refund. What in the motherfucking shit is this?

Warszawa wrote:This may be a stupid question but I have a rental Ford Focus with the sync stereo system and when I connect my phone via usb it sometimes plays music that is not on my phones library. Where is this music coming from?