Posted on 20 September 2009. Tags: 5 Steps To Freedom, Alan Greenspan, Big Brother, capital gains, capitalism, cash flow, Constitution, consumption, corporate taxes, create your own currency, cumulative taxation, currency, currency debasement, cut dependence on institutions, dollar, economic freedom, economic growth, Economics, effective tax burden, federal reserve, FI, financial freedom, financial institutions, financial intelligence, financial slavery, free enterprise, freedom, government, growth, income, income taxes, individual freedom, Individual Retirement Account, inflation, Investing, Jeff Nabers, liberty, middle class, nation of serfs, perpetual inflation, Phoebe Chongchua, Politics, property rights, punative taxation, purchasing power, Real Estate, real estate investing, regulation, regulations, revenue participation, Rob Viglione, royalty financing, Savings, self-directed IRA, serfdom, slavery, small business, socialism, solo 401(k), speculation, taxation, USD
The shackles of serfdom are being silently fastened to America. Every dollar Congress spends beyond its budget, every Federal Reserve Note printed, every tax, regulation, and government intrusion into our lives renders us less free. Ever wonder why it feels like it’s increasingly difficult to make ends meet? Remember the days when one spouse could work, the other raise the kids, and still save for a comfortable retirement? Those days are gone, but why? What’s next? The 5 Steps to Freedom: How To Cut Your Dependence On Institutions And Escape Financial Slavery, by Jeff Nabers explains what happened to our once prosperous society and how we can all take definite steps to escape what is to come. Continue Reading
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Posted on 12 July 2009. Tags: Big Brother, civil disobedience, compensation, congress, consequences, consumers, corporate taxes, currency debasement, deficit spending, depession, domestic, Economics, effective tax burden, embedded taxes, employee, entitlements, excise taxes, fair tax, federal, federal reserve, feudalism, fixed income, foreign, freedom, frguality, gold, government spending, income taxes, inflation, inflation risk, inflation tax, international socialism, labor market, labor productivity, liberty, lifestyle, local, marginal productivity, Medicare, monetary policy, monetizing debt, money supply, net wealth transfer, payroll taxes, philosophical implications, Politics, progressive taxation, property taxes, purchasing power, recession, regulations, regulatory burden, Retirement, revolt, Rob Viglione, sales tax, Savings, securities, serfdom, shareholders, slavery, social security, socialism, southern california, speculation, state, stimulus, tariffs, taxation, transfer taxes, treasuries, Treasury, U.S. dollar, Uncle Sam, unemployment, USD, wages
This article is dedicated to the growing segment of American society that is awakening to the ideas that we are increasingly overworked and overtaxed. My goal is to determine an effective tax burden on the average middle-class American. I will leave it to the reader to judge relative severity of the burden as measured against associated “benefits” to which he is “entitled” from the system. Continue Reading
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