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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Posted on 13 April 2009. Tags: AAA, accountability, acquisition, Alan Meltzer, apartment building, bailout programs, banking, banks, barack obama, Ben Bernanke, Benjamin Graham, Big Brother, big government, bond auction, bond market, borrow, buy your first apartment building, california, Carnegie mellon, CFA, CFA study program, Chairman, charter, Chartered Financial Analyst, CNN, commercial real estate, competitive, conservative insurgency, credit markets, crowd out, debt, Delta Global Advisors, depression, eavesdropping, economy, fair tax, Fed historian, federal, federal reserve, financial system, fiscal policies, Georgia, government debt, hedge inflation, hedge risk, history, hyperinflation, independent media, inflation, Keynes, learn about CFA, Michael Pento, Milton Friedman, monetary policy, money, money printing, money supply, municipal bonds, munis, nest egg, Obama administration, Obamanomics, older workers, online, political economist, Politics, President Obama, private placement, private sector, progressive taxation, public auction, public oversight, Real Estate, recession, releveraging, Retirement, risk, risk management, risk mitigation, Rob Viglione, Santa Monica Tea Party, secrecy, socal real estate advisors, spend, state, state secrets, struggling to pay taxes, surveillance, tax protests, tax reform, taxation, tea parties, tears, The Freedom Factory, transparency, Treasury securities, unemployment, Utah, valuation, value investing, what is a CFA, wiretapping
Obama continues Bush policy of surveillance secrecy despite campaign promises, tax protests spark conservative insurgency online, submit video footage of your tax woes to CNN and you might be aired nationally, Fed historian and political economist predicts worse inflation than 1970s, consider real estate as an inflation hedge, municipal bond market shows signs of life, older workers 45 years and older face brunt of recession, and flood of government debt crowds out private economy… Continue Reading
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