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Guess who ends up paying those taxes meant only for the rich…
August 25, 2020
August 25, 2020. At first, anyone earning under $76,000 (in today's money)—which was most people—paid no income taxes at all. ...
Best 5 States to Avoid High Property Taxes
March 01, 2019
March 1, 2019. Also taking into account state income and sales tax. ...
Guess how much Britain’s richest man saves on taxes by moving to Monaco?
February 22, 2019
February 22, 2019. And guess which billionaire thinks YOU should pay higher taxes? ...
Some clear thinking about Amazon’s ‘shocking’ tax incentives
February 15, 2019
February 15, 2018. Socialists celebrate losing 25,000 jobs and billions of dollars. ...
Here’s why the wealthiest city in America is screwed
February 14, 2019
February 14, 2018. It’s an all-out war on the rich in New York… because the city (and state) are broke. ...
I’m personally paying rent for furloughed gov’t employees. Here’s how to apply…
January 03, 2019
January 3, 2019. I believe I have a moral obligation to pay as little tax as possible. Every year I use my tax savings to fund worthy causes that are either ignored or totally bungled by the government. ...
Do taxes make Americans less charitable?
November 28, 2018
November 28, 2018. The generous American taxpayer is being fleeced. ...
Own a business? Consider this approach to slash your tax bill
November 27, 2018
November 27, 2018. Much of the developed West has almost medieval levels of taxation, yet crumbling infrastructure and debilitating debt levels. ...
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Replace High School with Internships and everyone wins
November 15, 2018
November 15, 2018. Replace high school with internships, and society's transformation will be beyond our wildest dreams. ...
How to pay literally ZERO tax… and do a bit of good
October 04, 2018
October 4, 2018. This is something that was buried deep in the US tax code changes last year; they’re called Opportunity Zones. ...
For people with talent and vision, this place has a LOT to offer
September 25, 2018
September 25, 2018. Foreigners are moving here. They’re starting businesses, spending money, and injecting much needed capital and talent into the economy. ...
Why These Five States Would Be Better Independent Countries
September 22, 2018
September 22, 2018. In America, we have a marketplace of 50 state governments lying in wait. ...
“Taxes Are the Price We Pay to Live in a Civilized Society” – or Are They?
July 08, 2018
July 8, 2018. The state’s hunger for tax revenue and control directly undermines well-intentioned humans’ efforts to be civil to each other. ...
tax boulder
The state of New Jersey just signed its own death warrant
July 06, 2018
Jul 6, 2018. We’re no longer medieval serfs. We have options. ...
Which Came First, Civilization or Taxation? (Hint: You Can’t Tax Something That Doesn’t Exist)
June 24, 2018
June 24, 2018. Do we owe society taxes? ...
frustrated computer user
Get Ready for Online Sales Tax as Supreme Court Screws Small Online Businesses
June 22, 2018
June 22, 2018. Small businesses aren't disappearing, they are just moving online. The American dream is alive and well and more accessible than ever! ...
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How I Found Freedom Moving to a New State
June 14, 2018
June 14, 2018. We had never realized just how much of a daily, weekly, and yearly impact these taxes alone were draining us. ...
HUGE opportunity in Puerto Rico… and the developed country whose looming debt crisis is far worse
May 22, 2018
And if you’re domiciled on the island, dividends that you pay to yourself are tax free… which means your effective tax rate on corporate and dividend income altogether is just 4%. ...
There is no ‘patriotic duty’ to pay more tax
April 18, 2018
It’s a very simple calculus: when your government goes into debt, YOU are the collateral. ...
Crimes of a Monster: Your Tax Dollars at Work
April 18, 2018
If the government can just take from you what they want, when they want, and then use it however they want, you can’t claim to be anything more than a serf in a land they think of as theirs. This was the case in the colonial era, and it’s the case once agai ...
Do You Live in One of These States That People are Fleeing?
January 20, 2018
Most of the states with dropping populations are high tax states. ...
If You Work Remotely, Move to One of These States
January 06, 2018
Moving is one of the easiest ways to slash your tax bill. ...
Millionaire Heiress Crusades Against Freedom to Spend Your Own Money
December 26, 2017
What Disney should actually be infuriated about, what she should “hope I’m making you angry” about, is that the ruling elite gets to make decisions about how her money is spent. ...
100 billion reasons to have non-reportable assets
November 25, 2017
Estimates vary for the amount of money the government will bring in through this theft; the lowest amount I’ve seen is $100 billion (again, an enormous sum in Saudi Arabia). The Wall Street Journal reported that the Saudi government is targeting as much ...
uncle sam shakes down the taxpayer
Three Kinds of Theft
November 11, 2017
Taxation is theft. But I’ve seen some people defend taxes with typical arguments like, "It’s not theft because you get something for your money." Perhaps the confusion lies in the fact that not all thieves act the same. There are at least three different t ...
Thousands of Americans renounced their citizenship. Again
November 09, 2017
The primary driver behind this is taxes, plain and simple. ...
Top 5 Ways to “Back Up” Your Freedom
July 27, 2017
You can take steps that ensure your freedom. Here are some easy ways to start. ...
5 Ways to Keep a Tax Farm (Citizens) Producing
July 16, 2017
The government depends on the citizens to produce, to create value from which the ruling classes can leech. They need to keep us working and spending in ways that they prescribe in order to insert themselves into transactions which would otherwise have nothing ...
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