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Well, maybe you won’t have to whip out the airfair frequent flyer miles credit card this month, if you hop on the bandwagon and enjoy one of the newly reduced United Airlines fares that they have recently introduced in their post holiday airfare sale.

The airline has apparently done this a few times in the past to rile some interest in traveling during a typically slow period in air travel, after the holidays have settled. Most of their competitors now do the same thing, but they were the pioneers in the after holiday airfare sales for the most part.

The tickets have to purchased at 14 days in advance, so it does sort of limite the element of spontaneity, and also of course limits the amount of planning time for some of us who are avid planners, but the deals are pretty hard to resist, ranging from low $150 round trip airfares within the US, to one way tickets that are dirt cheap.

Apparently if congress does not act quickly to review some pending legislation about important tax breaks for teachers and entrepreneurs, they may be missing out on some perks of tax deductions this current tax season.

I didn’t know this, but under current tax law, teachers may deduct up to $250 for personally bought supplies and books that are not covered by their employers if they do not sign the tax on for another “term”.

What’s the catch? Well, as with all politics, it’s hard to understand how this is permissible, but many tax laws are up for proposal which enjoy a bipartisan popularity, but the catch is they are also bundled with controversial tax laws that give tax breaks to the “rich”, which is something democrats find generally unacceptable.

The bottom line for us taxpayers? These important tax laws for the working class could potentially not be renewed because of a political agenda. Go figure….