Here are a few common pre-tax payroll deductions: Contributions to 401(k) plans can be pre-tax deductions. There are yearly limits on such contributions; for more information, please refer to the IRS. Employers administering the plan can set a lower limit for employees.
It was white with a green pine tree and the motto An Appeal to Heaven and was adopted in April, 1776. Since flags at that time were all naval ensigns (the cloth things on poles carried by soldiers on land were standards, not flags), Massachusetts was the first to adopt a state flag.
DLTK's Flag Day section includes printable templates for children's American Flag Day crafts, coloring, tracer pages and other activities for preschool, kindergarten and grade school kids. On June 14th, 1777 the American Flag was born! Congress passed a resolution on that day to give the young country it's own flag. It didn't look quite the way it looks today -- it still had the stars and stripes, but there were only thirteen stars in a circle (to represent each of the thirteen original states.