[Kwhite1]

[quote=”davidd”]sweikert925

I just emailed your employer with regards to your wasting company time with mental masturbation. Hopefully he will dock your pay.

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Awww, leave Steve alone, he likes his socialist utopia where someone else calls the shots and tells you how to live, where you can have your money, how much money you can have. (Sarcasm off now)

By enacting FATCA on July 1st, 2014 it makes it increasingly difficult to move YOUR money anywhere you want, this will expedite the world to become less dependent on the USD. Once that happens, we will see inflation like never seen before. The reason you can go just about anywhere in the world and use USD is a symbol of the strength of the dollar, forcing other countries to adhere to ridiculous standards just for the privilege to use the USD, other countries will ween off of it.

Contrary to belief, it cost quite a bit to adhere to these regulations and all of the reporting that goes along with it. That combined with the world seeing that the US is in deep debt, trillions of dollars, they (other countries) are making a move to uncouple their currency to the USD. If no one wants it, how much is it worth then? -25%, -50%? Enjoy the last loop on the roller coaster, because the ride is just about over. We all know how quick the ride ends when the air brakes kick in.

[Kwhite1]

Steve, how to fix SS? I have no clue, I am not a magician nor accountant. But I do know it is broke, and after 2033 it will not be able to pay the obligations.

The privitization of SS would be a good start, set up several SS approved, tax free investment accounts that perform better than the return the current system. Allowing you to opt for a bigger percentage to be deducted if you wish, that goes into your individual account. Much like an IRA….I will be responsible for my own retirement, I won’t depend on the government to provide it to me. Most things the gov tries to run/regulate just dont turn out so spiffy.

[Kwhite1]

[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”Kwhite1″]I will bet you $1,000 that there will be a major change to SS for the worse before you and I see it.[/quote] If that means a change to my own benefits which SS has calculated as being worth $2,329 a month at age 66.5 (my full retirement eligibility age) then I will take that bet.

See you back here on August 19, 2023.[/quote]

Steve, typical of liberals, dodging the direct question. How much is too much tax to pay? Your failure to answer screams volumes to me. So you are good paying 52% of your income to taxes? Your good paying 64% of your income to taxes? While the government waste billions upon billions on frivolous programs? Stop the wasteful spending, BS bonuses for your job description completion, 2 Billion rounds of ammo they don’t need, then I would look at my percentage of tax I pay in a different light.

Short story, 2006 I had to pay $156,000 to the IRS in taxes, that was waaaaay more than I physically took home, the loan I took from my company to pay those taxes was taxed again at 33%, so double taxation, I ended up paying the IRS 72% of the profit I made that year, why in the world would I strive to be successful? Why not suck off the teat from the government and get money back every year. I know folks who are unemployed that make $60K a year off benefits from the government. Why should I be motivated to be penalized for working hard?

The bet is, no change (for the better) in SS by the time you or me collect. I guarantee that the % will go up or the amount of benefit will go down, or no SS at all. That’s a sucker bet and I look forward to donating the $1,000 I collect from you to an orphanage.

[Kwhite1]

[quote=”sweikert925″]I have actually read those. I visit the SSA website pretty regularly.

Of all the problems that the federal government faces, fixing SS is actually the easiest. Raise the SS tax a couple of percentage points, remove the cap on which incomes are taxed and gradually raise the retirement age to 70. Problem solved.

See [url=http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/01/retirement/saving-social-security.moneymag/]here[/url] and [url=http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/planning-to-retire/2013/02/13/5-ways-to-fix-social-security]here.[/url][/quote]

Steve, once again you fail to see what this issue is. Raising taxes is the answer? When are too much taxes enough? I ask you these questions, and please answer honestly, what percentage of taxes are too much? 20%, 30% 40%, 50% 60%, 70%? Why don’t we cut some spending? Start with 90 Million dollars for salmon research, start with any $400 million green energy loans that go bankrupt. Start with $400 toilet seats….start anywhere!!!

SS is done, you or I will never see it, I will bet you $1,000 that there will be a major change to SS for the worse before you and I see it, but yet we both put into it every week don’t we.

[Kwhite1]

[quote=”schlabra”]I know this is an issue talked about in the past 🙄 but, this is the last step we need to do before we arrive in July. I have contacted numerous companies for quotes etc… the numbers vary greatly. Please help with the following:

1. Does my Chase/visa card “CDW” wavier work in CR?
2. Does $1000.00(average)for 2 weeks seem normal?
3. GPS needed?
4. Phone needed?
We plan to rent a small 4×4 suv(Jimmy).
Any specific items to look out for? suggestions, help would be greatly appreciated.

Steve from TEXAS[/quote]

Steve, check with Alamo Rental, I reserved a SUV July 1 for 10 days and was only $400+. It is cheaper to bring a GPS with you, most will charge $12-$20 a day for it, go to Best Buy and pick one up for $99, load CR into it and your done. Get the LDW at $12 a day, makes your deductible around $1000 should something happen. Good Luck

[Kwhite1]

[quote=”sprite”]I will disparage the military. Soldiers are at the root of evil regardless of whichever uniform they wear. As always, it is an individual decision to kill whether the State orders you to do so or not.
Costa Rica decided it did not need soldiers. Take that sentiment to its ultimate position and it is obvious that the State is also not needed. Cooperation between people is normal. We don’t need a state. Anti social behavior is the exception. The State and it’s military are the cause for conflict and anti social behavior on great scale.
You have to decide whether or not you will let others have dominion over you at the point if a gun or not. You don’t make that decision while wearing a uniform.[/quote]

Sprite…..Think about what you stated there…if Russia or China decided to come to Miami and take it over, by your statement, you would be perfectly fine just rolling over and embracing the newly lost freedoms you once enjoyed? Welcome to rainbow land…where everything is perfect.

Seems there is a military force in CR (maybe Scott has a better explanation?);

Ministry of Public Security’s Public Force[edit]

During 1996, the Ministry of Public Security established the Fuerza Pública or Public Force which reorganized and eliminated the Civil Guard, Rural Assistance Guard, and Frontier Guards as separate entities, they are now under the Ministry and operate on a geographic command basis performing ground security, law enforcement, counter-narcotics, and border patrol functions.

Outside the Fuerza Pública, there is a small Special Forces Unit, [b]the Unidad Especial de Intervencion (UEI) or Special Intervention Unit, which trains with special forces of Israel, and its namesake in Spain and other democratic nations, but is not part of the main police forces. Instead it is part of the Intelligence and Security Directorate (DIS) which reports directly to the Minister of the Presidency. In case of war in Costa Rica, the United States has offered their military to use at Costa Rica’s disposal.

Weapons and equipment[edit]

Rifles:
M16 rifle 5.56×45mm NATO
M4 carbine 5.56×45mm NATO
M14 rifle 7.62×51 NATO
Galil ARMR 5.56×45mm NATO
IMI Tavor TAR-21 5.56x45mm NATO
FN FAL 7.62×51 NATO
SVD 7.62x54mmR
FN FNC 90-00 5.56x45mm NATO
Remington Model 700PPS 7.62x51mm NATO

Shotguns:
Benelli M1 Super 9018.5x76mm 12 gauge

Sub-Machine Guns:
Heckler & Koch MP5 9x19mm Parabellum
Beretta Model 38 9x19mm Parabellum
Uzi Mini-Uzi 9×19mm Parabellum

General Purpose Machine Gun:
M60 7.62×51 NATO
IMI Negev 5.56mm NATO

Pistols:
SIG Sauer P226 9x19mm Parabellum
Smith & Wesson Model 5906 9x19mm Parabellum
Smith & Wesson Model 10 .38 Special (9x29mm)
M1911 .45 ACP
Beretta M9 9×19mm Parabellum
Jericho 941 9×19mm Parabellum

Grenade Launchers:
Colt M203 40mm Grenade
Colt M79 40mm Grenade
Model 2012Z

Military Trucks:
Mercedes Benz Unimog U-4000U-5000
AM General Humvee

Other equipment:
Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops
Night vision devices
Global Positioning System

Aircraft inventory[edit]

There are 11 aircraft on government support, law enforcement, and civil duties.

Aircraft

Type

Versions

In service[2]

Notes

Aero Commander utility transport 695 1
Cessna 206 utility 206G 2
Cessna 207 utility 1
de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou tactical transport 1
MD Helicopters MD 500 utility helicopter MD 500E 2
MD Helicopters MD 600 utility helicopter MD 600 2
Piper PA-31 Navajo utility 3
Piper PA-34 Seneca utility PA-34-200T 1

[Kwhite1]

[quote=”Imxploring”][quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”sprite”]Spoken like a loyal slave[/quote]
You can think it it as being a slave, reasonable people generally think of it as recognizing reality rather than indulging in a private fantasy.

[quote=”sprite”]I don’t feel any moral obligation to obey criminal[s]..[/quote]
Well I hate it to break it to you and further intrude on that fantasy, but you don’t get to decide who are criminals all by yourself either. If you don’t pay your taxes then you risk being the criminal, not the men and women in those black robes.

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Thankfully Steve there were a good number of people in America in 1776 that didn’t see things the way you do and were willing to stand up and fight for what was fair and right putting their lives and liberty as risk. You apparently on the other hand would have been quite comfortable continuing to be governed by folks in red coats that answered to a King. (No offense intended Scott! LOL)

History is a beast… it repeats itself over and over again… and only those willing to learn from it truly can see what is right and wrong with this world. But then again… being a sheep now, and back in 1776, was an easy path that many took…. but who was ultimately right and aren’t even YOU enjoying the benefits of those that made the difficult choice rather than the easy one?[/quote]

Imxploring….bravo…excellent post.

I am always amazed at the protesters that bad mouth the military, exercising the very freedom the brave men and women are out defending while being bashed. Point being, most sheepple are hypocrites in the highest degree, they disagree with individuality, independent thinking, supporting yourself, but yet they exercise their right to voice their opinion (don’t look now sheepple, expressing your opinion is a form of independent thinking..ohh noooo!)

Just wait until the government teat is dislodged from the lips of these folks….lets see how fast things unravel when they have to support themselves…..grab some popcorn and get comfy, it’s gonna be a good show!

[Kwhite1]

2 schools of thought, one is the gov is so broke they are looking for every crumb they can find, two, is that the demise of the dollar is imminent and they are gathering as much reserves as they can in the time remaining.

It is apparent go me, even more so now, they feel like you and your property belong to them. So much for the free man.

[Kwhite1]

[quote=”Imxploring”]It’s funny… but if WE THE PEOPLE were permitted to deduct all the expenses we incur in generating taxable income (like a business does) as well as take the depreciation on our possessions (once again used to generate taxable income) I’m figuring I’d have a similar tax liability (percentage wise) to most of the major household name companies operating in the US…. or better yet a taxable loss! LOL[/quote]

Well said Imxploring……there are 2 main issues with taxes, one is legal and one is not. Tax avoidance is the art of utilizing the rules and regulations produced by the IRS, tax evasion is not legal. What they , the IRS, are doing is changing the rules to take away the provisions the IRS had to freely move your money to and from accounts worldwide. All while they spend $90 million for salmon research as folks struggle to pay their taxes.

Technically, taxes period are illegal, something about taxation without representation.

[Kwhite1]

[quote=”davidd”]the only way to do this is to go the extra mile and set up in places like Hong Kong..

and just draw a salary

[quote=”Scott”]My comments earlier this morning discussing this on Facebook were:

“Big Brother now firmly entrenched in Costa Rica as country agrees to automatically share banking and tax information. “….we are determined to tackle cross-border tax fraud and tax evasion and to promote international tax compliance through mutual administrative assistance in tax matters and a level playing field…”

See the [url=http://www.oecd.org/mcm/MCM-2014-Declaration-Tax.pdf]May 6th 2014 OECD document here.[/url]

A little country like Costa Rica – which needs to be able to trabsfer US dollars through the international system – really has no power to stand up against the U.S. financial authorities if it wants to be able to continue to move dollars…
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Well my friend…Hong Kong is out now, they complied…..https://www.kpmg.com/cn/en/services/tax/us-corporate-tax/foreign-account-tax-compliance-act/pages/default.aspx

I also read that Switzerland also caved, the only places are the likes of Iran, Russia and some other not so nice countries. I wonder if Fiji jumped on as well?

Onto some good news though, Costa Rica was named #9 out of 10 best places to survive during WWIII, which may be just around the corner, war is good for boosting economies (so I’ve heard). Ok sarcasm off now….

[Kwhite1]

[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”pixframe”] To express this repugnance of yours … how about if/when you have a son, don’t invite them to his bar mitzvah?[/quote]
If I did have a son no one would get invited to his bar mitzvah because he wouldn’t have a bar mitzvah. I’m not Jewish.

If you think it is adequate to fight bigotry by not inviting bigots to your parties, then that’s something else we disagree about.[/quote]

STOP FEEDING QUARTERS INTO THE MACHINE

[Kwhite1]

[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”Kwhite1]…then maybe your comments might have a smidgen of interest.[/quote]

And when you finally have something useful to say about Costa Rica instead of posting comments over and over and over again about how much you hate government then your comments might have a smidgen of interest for me.[/quote]

I assure I am not here for your entertainment or approval, easy solution, don’t read my post and don’t comment on them. It is obvious we are on polar opposites in just about everything.

[Kwhite1]

[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”Kwhite1]Here is a challenge, name a country (Besides places like Somalia and the like) that do not have the same goal of taking all of your money$$$$$$$$$.[/quote]

. Yet another anti-government rant here on WeHateGovernment.com that the folks who come here to gain useful information about visiting and living in Costa Rica no doubt find so truly helpful.[/quote]

Sweikert, when you actually have some experience living out of Chicago, then maybe your comments might have a smidgen of interest. I still find it amazing that you can sit in your cubical, depending on someone else for your paycheck, but yet you have all of this worldly advice to folks that live outside the US and a majority have had their own business. I have provided my own way for over 15 years after serving in the military, I always believed it was my obligation to provide for myself, by doing that, I have gained an complete understanding of what the roles of givers and takers are. Care to guess which one you are?

[Kwhite1]

[quote=”Kwhite1″][quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”Kwhite1″]…the WORLD has opted to bow down to small special interest groups that affect the majority.[/quote]
The world has been catering to that small special interest group called Christians for millenia. You don’t object to interest groups being catered to, you object to interest groups [b]you don’t happen to belong to[/b] being catered to.[/quote]

You just live in Rainbow Land…..since when did Christianity become classified as a minority of the word? You really make yourself look pretty ignorant just now. 33% of the worlds population is Christian…more than any other.

http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

and one more for you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations

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Don’t you just hate it when people beat your Rainbow Land world with logic and facts…I hate it too…..I will stop feeding the machine quarters now.

[Kwhite1]

[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”Kwhite1″]…the WORLD has opted to bow down to small special interest groups that affect the majority.[/quote]
The world has been catering to that small special interest group called Christians for millenia. You don’t object to interest groups being catered to, you object to interest groups [b]you don’t happen to belong to[/b] being catered to.[/quote]

You just live in Rainbow Land…..since when did Christianity become classified as a minority of the word? You really make yourself look pretty ignorant just now. 33% of the worlds population is Christian…more than any other.

http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

and one more for you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations

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