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this was an interesting perspective from someone actually there
any eye opener
[quote=”sprite”]Most problems have solutions. The solution to this one is to renounce US citizenship. Freedom always has a cost.[/quote]
true.. I know a few people that have done this and let me tell you its not an easy thing.. besides charging $500 bucks for the privilege lol
[quote=”Scott”]What you ‘see’ in writing may not be what you see in real life …
Have we met davidd?[/quote]
yes we have… but I cannot reveal who I am.. because unfortunately the only way to speak honestly in today’s world is under an assumed name.
and if people say differently.. they are deluded.. it would be the same as saying David Snowden would get a fair trial.. if he went back to the U.S.
think about all the maggot vermin that tried to hurt you in some way… just because you were honest in your dealings.. like the developers that were scamming people..
we live in a world.. especially in the U.S. that one cannot express themselves honestly without being labeled..
I don’t agree with Homosexuality.. so I am homo phobic
I don’t find black women personally attractive.. so i am racist.
I don’t agree with Obama’s policy’s so i am a racist.
etc etc..
under a proxie and assumed name I can express my honest feelings.. and not worry about some maggot taking the information and try to hurt me in some way.
Using this approach.. I can then see them coming miles away.
what a world.
It shows.. it also shows a new humbleness that was not prevalent before. I am not sure if your recent health experience changed some perspective.
anyway.. it suits you well..
pura vida
[quote=”Scott”]Thank you, Mayra and I have had a lot of fun this year…
A life of leisure, travelling to wonderful places, catching up with family and friends, meeting other fun people we’ve never met before and enjoying great food and good wine really suits us. 😛
You should try it some time!
Scott[/quote]
I may be wrong.. if someone can correct me
but was it not Roosevelt that came up with the ingenious method of having the taxes automatically removed from your pay check???
I would go out on a limb and say this… if sweikert had to sit down every 2 weeks when he got his paycheck and had to physically write a tax check to the government.. he would be singing a completely different tune..:roll::roll::roll::roll:
[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”Scott”]You mean these “tax cheats”?[/quote]
According to my definition, then yes, they are. But according to one of their high-priced PR flunkies (like that odious woman who does the oil & gas industry ads) “we pay all of our legally due taxes.” That is – generally – technically true. What they leave out when they say that though is that it’s easy to obey the tax laws when the people who write those laws are in your pocket while at the same time their lips are firmly attached to your rear end. (Yeah, they really are that flexible). That link you provided is actually understating the situation, [url=http://www.ctj.org/corporatetaxdodgers/sorrystateofcorptaxes.php]here’s one that is even more eye-opening.[/url] There is a reason that [url=http://www.ksapre.com/cayman-islands-tax-haven-offshore/]]the Cayman Islands have more registered businesses than people[/url] and it’s not because office space rents are cheap.
In 1955, of the total income tax collected by the US government, 40% came from corporate income taxes and 60% from personal income taxes. Last year that ratio was 17% from corporate income taxes and 83% from personal income taxes. And that was at the same time that corporate profits had reached astronomical levels and the income of the middle and lower classes had been stagnant for the past 10 years, or in some cases, even declining.
What the US needs is another Teddy Roosevelt giving the plutocrats hell. I think maybe we have one in Elizabeth Warren, and thank god for her. I wish there were 99 more like her in the Senate.[/quote]
Scott
BTW I personally think corporations should not pay taxes depending on
1.) how many jobs they actually produce
2.) and the quality of jobs..
I find it amusing that people[size=200][/size] like sweikert that chooses to be a sheeple ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheeple) and walks around in a bent over position with regards to taxes and government ..
cannot stand that independent people walk thru this life saying [b]NO MAS!!![/b] and making choices that reflect this.
I have always envisioned the morally oppressed people in positions of power.. that lay awake at night.. upset that there are people around the country.. smoking pot, having a cocktail.. enjoying consensual sex and placing a few bets on a football game..
I applaud people like sweikert.. because its these very same people that never question.. always follows.. this is what keeps your government going.
“When Plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves over a course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it”
Frederic Bastiat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_BastiatSo TRUE!!!!
alot of detail… what conclusions have you reached with this info??
generally speaking.. anything imported will cost more.. so if you cannot eliminate the need for brand products.. you will always pay more..
that forbes article was excellent..
I am confused about when the topic of halving is discussed. and its effect on middle class.. interesting.
anyone who includes a specific date in any predication is speaking out of their arses.
anyone can find and support any position regarding this or any other matter.. and its all a click away..
It will as always boil down to individuals making their OWN decisions using their brains. pure and simple.. not blindingly listening to these pundits.. and politicians.. or anyone else..
Use your own brain..
If one goes back in history regarding FIAT currency.. has any one fiat currency survived???
[quote=”sweikert925″]I’m with bogino on this one. Yes, sometimes the stock market goes down and sometimes by quite a bit but that is normal. I don’t get this insistence on the part of some that something cataclysmic is about to happen.
I came across [url=http://www.costaricantimes.com/stocks-will-collapse-by-50-in-2014/26995]this story in the Costa Rican Times[/url] that makes a pretty specific prediction. I saved the link because I wondered if somehow, mysteriously, it will no longer work come January 1, 2015. (Isn’t it funny that the guys who peddle this theory always seem to have – by strange coincidence – a book for sale that explains how to avoid the catastrophe?) Now if you clicked that link nand read that “news story” then you got only one side of the picture. [url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2013/04/29/why-doomsters-who-predict-the-collpase-of-money-are-wrong/]Here is the other side.[/url][/quote]
imxploring
everyone has their own thresholds and of course will do what they feel comfortable.
I trust my instinct..and it has served me well. I have lived here and done enough business here to know generally how they do things
and regarding these S.A.s if you opened one in your passport.. which I did originally many years ago.. I will take that chance of letting them wither and die on their own.
Heck I have a new passport that even has a different number.
it is my belief that they cannot possibly do anything..
so to each his own.
just because you try and do the right thing.. does not mean this actually helps you.
in fact in today’s day and age.. one needs to constantly evaluate individual circumstances
look at the luxury tax scenario.. the people who actually paid it are the ones now that are constantly targeted to pay.. pay.. pay..
your right about governments getting desperate..
[quote=”Imxploring”][quote=”davidd”][quote=”costaricabill”]What if you opened account with a US Passport, got residency and changed everything at the bank relating to identification to your cedula?[/quote]
good question.. and only by going thru the process will this be revealed..
my suggestion.. open up new accounts with your cedula and close any accounts that you opened with a passport.
these are the little things one discovers by actually living here. for example.
with the corporation tax.. many that I had were originally opened with my passport..
then i just transferred the assets out of the S.A. and just let the corp.. wither away on its own.
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When you use the term “wither away on its own” I hope you don’t mean just don’t pay the taxes and not close out the S.A. properly. Those type of moves tend to have a funny way of resurrecting themselves when you least expect it…. and costing more then if things had been done the right way. Perhaps not today… or next week…. or even next year…. but at some point when you leave the clock ticking on a government debt…. they come looking to collect!
And with as desperate as governments are becoming… do yourself a favor and don’t place yourself in the crosshairs![/quote][quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”sprite”]There are far more reasons to get out now than there were in 2007.[/quote]
Perhaps you’re right and perhaps not. We shall see.[/quote]should really be interesting to see what happens with the FIAT currency and people that hold all their assets in dollars..
scary indeed.. well not for me 😉
[quote=”costaricabill”]What if you opened account with a US Passport, got residency and changed everything at the bank relating to identification to your cedula?[/quote]
good question.. and only by going thru the process will this be revealed..
my suggestion.. open up new accounts with your cedula and close any accounts that you opened with a passport.
these are the little things one discovers by actually living here. for example.
with the corporation tax.. many that I had were originally opened with my passport..
then i just transferred the assets out of the S.A. and just let the corp.. wither away on its own.
