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.
On a motion by John Adams, what is now called the Betsy Ross Flag -- 13 stripes with 13 stars in the upper left corner -- was officially adopted by the Continental Congress on 14 June 1777, and there is ample evidence that Mrs Ross manufactured flags for the Pennsylvania State Navy.