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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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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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Posted on 04 March 2009. Tags: A Bull in China, american lighthouse foundation, banking, banks, barack obama, Bolivarian Revolution, Book, Cargill, charities, China, Chinese consume more goods, civil war in U.S., commodities, congress, construction, currency, debasement, defend earmarks, democrats, dictator, distressed properties, dollar, domestic stimulus, drug approval, economic downturn, Fannie Mae, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Freddie Mac, Freedom Under Fire, gold, hands of the oligarchy, health care costs, hedge inflation, high income earners, homeowners bailout, Hugo Chavez, Idiot's Guide to Buying Foreclosures, Igor Panarin, inflation, infrastructure, Investing in Real Estate Tax Liens, itemized tax deductions, Jim Rogers, judicial branch, lawmakers, lawsuits, Lefitism, liability, litigation, Marxims, Mormon cricket, mortgage intereset, mortgages, national interest, nationalized, not backed by gold, Obama administration, oppose Obama tax hikes, polynesian voyaging society, popular vote, populism, pork spending, porkulus, Pre-Foreclosure Real Estate, President Obama, progressive taxation, raw materials, Real Estate, restructure loans, Rob Viglione, Robin Hood, Ruble, Russia, Russian economist, social unrest, socialism, special interests, Spending, state and local taxes, supreme court, swine odor research, take from the rich, TARP, tatoo removal, too many dollars, Treasury securities, U.S. Treasuries, USD, Venezuela, vital, war on opposition media
China launching massive domestic stimulus, details on the $275 billion homeowner bailout, landmark Supreme Court ruling for drug makers, Chavez declares war on opposition media and nationalizes a U.S.-based company, lawmakers defend 9,000 earmarks including “swine odor research”, and a Russian economist predicts civil war in U.S. in 2009…just the latest in your Freedom Under Fire Report! Continue Reading
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Posted on 29 August 2008. Tags: Alexander Tytler, ari fleischer, democracy, equitable taxation, lifecycle of civilizations, progressive taxation, redistribution, Rob Viglione, socialism, taxes in america, taxpaying minority, the fair tax
One of my friends just brought an interesting article to my attention. It’s a Wall Street Journal opinion piece written by Ari Fleischer (former White House Press Secretary) entitled “The Taxpaying Minority.” From the title you can guess he states the usual stats: top 40% of the population pays 99% of taxes, top 10% pay 71%, and the bottom 40% pay…NOTHING!
With the Earned Income Tax Credit many of these patriots even receive handouts by the federal government, taken from the rest of the chumps who pay taxes. When a large percentage of the population has no vested interest in the fiscal solvency of the state, they are prone to demand increasingly irresponsible programs until a crisis forces change. The Romans called the crisis ”civil war” after which a dictatorship was established.
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