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[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”costaricabill”]I try not to worry about things I have absolutely no control over.[/quote]
Which makes you a very sensible person and a very rare one here at WLCR.[/quote]
only according to the world of sweikert..
sweikert925
Its good to see that you work 55 hours per week.. this shows you have some sort of a work ethic..
regards to whining
I see discussion regarding taxes and the direction of this country with regards to them. I don’t whine as I have already restructured my corporate self in a situation where I don’t pay any taxes.. aside from consumption and assets held.
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[quote=”sweikert925″]Pay all taxes you are legally required to pay. Problem solved.*
*And as a favor to the rest of us, please stop whining about it.[/quote]
[b]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheeple[/b][size=200][/size] :arrow::!::!::!::!::!:
Imxploring
100% correct!! Hitler was indeed elected and you know those germans are not stupid people to begin with..
having my first cup of freshly grounded coffee.. what a beautiful morning here in heredia..
life is great!!!!
[quote=”Imxploring”][quote=”sweikert925″]Pay all taxes you are legally required to pay. Problem solved.*
*And as a favor to the rest of us, please stop whining about it.[/quote]
Spoken like a good little sheep…. but remember Steve… when Hitler was rounding up the Jews and all the other folks he didn’t like, taking their possessions, crowding them into ghettos, or loading them on to trains for concentration camps to be executed… they were just following what they were LEGALLY required to do. So how did that work out my friend? I guess you wouldn’t have had a problem with that either? That is as long as it didn’t impact you….
An extreme example perhaps…. but remember…. Hitler was first ELECTED…. and the end result of his actions…. be they extreme were the end result of a series of small steps. Most folks are rather myopic… never having a clear vision of what awaits in the distance. It takes time and thought to see off in the distance….
Or perhaps an American history reference… were Washington and our nation’s founders just a bunch of disobedient WHINERS for revolting against what they saw was a system of tyranny and unfairness?
Ignoring governments out of control doesn’t make them any better…. it just empowers them to make more bad choices.
Come now Steve… I can’t wait for the hammer to fall in Chicago and Illinois and see how you feel then. LOL
Now it’s time for another coffee and out to the deck to enjoy the hummingbirds and Toucans. You better get back to work before the boss sees you stealing time…. the CEO needs another Benz![/quote]
[quote=”sweikert925″]Pay all taxes you are legally required to pay. Problem solved.*
*And as a favor to the rest of us, please stop whining about it.[/quote]
Sweikert
spoken like a good sheeple.. 😀 :roll::roll::roll: does it not get uncomfortable being in that bent over position so often?? has to put a strain on your lower lumber region
Scott
congratulations you deserve a holiday
as far as behaving ourselves is totally dependant of Sweikert :D:D:D
[quote=”Scott”]Ha!
If you are looking for a good small business you might want to take a look at this article…
[url=https://www.welovecostarica.com/public/4432.cfm]Successful, Well Established Costa Rica Online Business For Sale For US$325,000. Generated $110,000 in net income in 2013. Seller financing will be considered with a minimum of $200,000 down.[/url]
PS. My wife and I will be travelling in Europe (London, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid) for the entire month of June so I’m hoping you guys will behave yourselves …
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[quote=”johnnyh”]http://www.sovereignman.com/trends/what-happened-to-the-idea-of-america-it-went-offshore-14434/
I’m hoping the best for Costa Rica’s new president, but perhaps someone will show him this article. Hopefully soon before more companies decide to move.[/quote]
Johnny
“HOPE” is not a good word.. I never liked that word as well as the word
“SHOULD”
I should do this or I should do that.. the word should needs to be eliminated from our vocabulary.
better to focus on specific strategies and expectations you can manage.
so instead of hoping that some new politician is going to come in and save a country..
better to start from where you are.. create a vision of your future.. and start moving towards the realization of this..
this way you can be one of the ones that people look towards for leadership and examples.
the end result is a much more satisfying experience..:)
Congratulations!!!
having had multiple businesses here in costa rica and also belonging to a few mastermind buisness groups here. . I can emphatically say this.
Costa Rica is a wonderful place to live and raise a family
but doing business here is terrible.
very general comment yes I agree and this can vary obvious depending on your $$$ thresholds..
I would say DO NOT do it..
re adjust your skill sets and launch an online business.. like people like Scott.. looks at Scotts Model
follow the successful path.. or as some would say follow the money.
sweikert
your explaining exact processes that is going on around the country NOT just Chicago
your commentary surprised me a bit.. because you basically describe the frustration of government wide incompetence and corruption..
yet you have this naive view point as if this can all be worked out..
let me ask you
how many times will you allowed to be lied to.. or money stolen from you..??? since you pay taxes and these idiots misuse funds etc.. how many times before you say enough is enough..
it doe snot matter who is in office.. Bush was one of the most bungling idiots who ever made president..
in fact. he was the reason Obama won can you imagine that hairbrain mcain.. another 4 years..
its the system that is broken
If you’re expecting me to defend the way this city and state have been run for the past 20 or 30 years you’re in for a disappointment. The state and city finances are a mess, no doubt about it. But that took the effort of lots of politicians from both parties. We had Republican governors for 26 years straight from 1977-2003. The decisions to shortchange the pension funds were largely theirs.
For the past 3 state elections now, I have wanted to vote for someone other than my current state senator and state representative (both Democrats) but I couldn’t. Why? because that pathetic creature called the Illinois Republican party didn’t bother to recruit a candidate for either post. But it wasn’t just my district – almost half of all state legislature seats in 2010 had NO MAJOR PARTY OPPOSITION. That includes Democrats with no Republican opponent and Republicans with no Democratic opponent. And in the 2011 mayoral election there was also no Republican running. So whose fault is it when all the offices I get to vote for wind up with Democrats in them?
This fall though we DO have a real live Republican running for governor and he will get my vote. (The current Democratic incumbent is a decent man and the state financial situation isn’t his doing, but he’s had long enough to fix it and hasn’t.) And we also have 2 constitutional amendments on the ballot, both of which I will gladly vote for – term limits and a non-partisan method of assigning political district boundaries.
As for why we’re in this mess, the answer is simple – the people who run things kept using gimmicks to balance the state budget instead of raising the necessary taxes to do so. Since the state income tax was first instituted in 1969 (by a Republican governor by the way) the rate has remained at a flat 3% or below until 2011. Illinois had the lowest state income tax of any state that HAD a state income tax for years. And it’s not like Illinois spends a lot – as this reference shows, Illinois spends less than almost every other state. (Wait, this is where you accuse me of “hitting you with an obscure web link to make my point”, right?)
Sprite is right on with that statement..
here is a funny video from jon stewart
can anyone see the message ??
[quote=”sprite”][quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”sprite”]President Reagan ordered a study…[/quote]
None of that has any bearing on the question I asked you so let me try again: if we didn’t have an income tax, what would you suggest the US government do instead to fund itself?[/quote]
The government funded itself very well up until the income tax of 1913. There are a myeiad of other taxes out there and I am one of the federally licensed people who collect one of those taxes, import taxes to be specific. There are fuel taxes, excise taxes, corporate taxes and tobacco taxes..there are taxes ad nauseum. Many are legitimate and are used to some degree to fund infrastructure.
Income tax is strictly to rob and hollow out the wealth of a nation for the benefit of the international banking cartel, which prints the fiat currency we use out of thin air and then charges us for that amount as well as interest. Wake up.[/quote]Sprite
I lived in Cuba in 2009 for 8 months.. it was really an adventure but also gave me an education and glimpse first hand into the society there.. maybe thats my problem
having this reference point which is so extreme opposite to Costa Rica
but again.. costa rica is no way near socialism.. they may have a few areas that they lean abit with its labor practices its most direct example.. but you have freedoms here that places like Venezuela and Cuba do not have.
In fact I would as far to say that Costa Rica is probably the most free country in Central america but then again I guess I am biased.
I also think the size of government is really the answer. The government here do not have the mass, internal systems or power to infiltrate and micro manage people lives.
as a foreigner with limited funds I was able to open a brick and mortar business here and grow it to be sold for a nice sum 8 years later.
now if you want to talk about incompetence.. that’s a different story. :D:D
[quote=”sprite”]David,
I visited Cuba as a young man from 1976 through 1982. I got a good close look at their brand of socialism. But I was in no position to make a considered, mature opinion at that time. I was too involved with finding out about how my own country was betraying its citizens. I wished Cuba good luck with its revolution and then proceeded to set up a typical American life for myself in Miami.
Maybe it is because I spent my life in the most anti socialist country on the planet but Costa Rica seems to have some very socialistic programs in place. They do lot have to be mandatory to qualify as socialistic, either.[/quote][quote=”orcas0606″]Willy or willies, and I thought, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help” was scary!!! For those who read Spanish, or have a translator, check out the editorial in todays La Nación. Expats aren’t the only ones concerned.[/quote]
orca
do you happen to have that article snippet??
thanks
Sprite
ahh.. ok.. I misread..
your right about the U.S. its not a socialist society but rather an olgarthy which has been acknowledged by a recent princeton study
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/09/janet-yellen-oligarchy_n_5296399.html
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/21/americas-oligarchy-not-democracy-or-republic-unive/
I think the word “Socialism” sometimes is overused.. like many of the buzz words of today.
Still Costa Rica has some tendencies but I would not even call it a quasi
they have a public health care but also you can buy additional or private healthcare
and they ( This is key) [b]DO NOT FORCE TICOS[/b] to buy into the system.. only foreigners which I would agree is fair.. since we are really only guests in this country.
The government here is too small to really be considered a socialist society.. the impact here is minimal at best.
in fact I would speculate we have MORE freedoms here than in the U.S. although the tides are changing..:)
I have lived In Cuba for a bit and that my friend is a different experience.
These people here would have a heart attack if all the micro laws in the U.S. would all of a sudden be brought here..
[quote=”sprite”]There are many varieties of socialism and “there is no single definition encapsulating all of them” (Wikipedia)
There is absolutely enough state involvement in labor and public health to qualify Costa Rica as, at the very least, quasi socialist.
But to call the US a socialist country is absurd. It most definitely is NOT. So for all you right wing neo capitalist/ libertarian, neo fascist neo-…whatever… out there…Costa Rica has a form of government and a way of looking at social issues which are probably in direct opposition to many of your core beliefs.[/quote]
[quote=”sprite”]I thought I read somewhere that one requirement for citizenship was the ability to sing or recite the Costa Rican national anthem. I have been unable to find anything that confirms this. Is this true?
I am thoroughly fluent in Spanish and I know that learning a foreign language is more difficult the older one gets. How many expats in Costa Rica are fluent in Spanish sufficient to this task?[/quote]Sprite
you will have to pass a civil test in spanish.. NOT sing the anthem :lol::lol::lol:
this goes for all citizenship.. EXCEPT Marriage.. if you are married for 3 years you are eligible
Sprite
I would have to disagree with you on that statement
Costa Rica has some socialistic areas.. like labor.. etc.. but to call Costa Rica a socialist Government.. is way off.
can you clarify why you would think Costa Rica is a socialist government???
now if you said Venezuela or Cuba.. which I have both visited a few times were socialist governments I would agree
[b][/b][quote=”sprite”][quote=”rfs1975″]It would appear that the current socialist regime in the US is [url=http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/18253-critics-mount-constitutional-attack-on-dreaded-fatca-tax-regime]being challenged on FACTA[/url]
[/quote]PLEASE!!! the US regime is NOT socialist. It is fascist or oligarchic. Look to Nazi Germany for examples, not to the Soviet Union.
This is not just word play. Costa Rica has a socialist government. There is a difference.
I am not defending socialism but I am sick and tired of hearing right wing brainwashing terminology which confuses perception of the reality.
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