A permanent tax policy is important for financial stability. With a permanent tax policy, citizens can budget for their greatest consistent liability better. In a previous post entitled, “The Government Encourages Small Business Owners To Fire Employees” I discussed how my friend Zach let go of one of his employees to make room to pay …
Nature vs. nurture is an ancient debate about determining a child’s future success. Success is often defined in terms of money, career, and status. Personally, I think there is an unhealthy desire for prestige and money that is ruining many people’s lives. I think it’s much better to get rich and then get off the …
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Unemployment checks were a great way to help stimulate the economy during the 2008-2009 financial crisis. Unemployment checks were pumped out into the economy in 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic to help save the economy again. I’m so excited, I can’t stand it! So excellent to hear the White House agreeing with Congressional Republicans to …
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Senate Republicans blocked the middle class tax cut extension passed by the House earlier in the week. There’s a lot of finger pointing by the Democrats who say that the Republicans are holding the middle class hostage. Is that really the case though? If the Democrats know their bill will get shot down by Republicans …
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When President Obama proposed to freeze Federal Government pay for two years I thought he was taunting us with an April Fool’s joke in November. I mean really. Is the public supposed to take the President seriously after he signed off on a 3.9% 2009 pay hike when Armageddon hit in 2008 while attacking the …
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Every two to four years we have government elections and every two to four years I wonder the same thing, “Does my vote matter?” In California, we have two Gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman (R) and Jerry Brown (D) who have the most vicious attack ads I’ve ever seen. Their ads make them BOTH sound unappealing, …
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Watch Texas Rangers relief pitching if you want to learn how to NOT be clutch! Wow, I mean come on. How does that one kid throw 11 balls in a row and walk two SF Giants batters in the 8th inning of Game 2 when the bases are loaded? It’s absolutely unbelievable how bad the …
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Back in late 2010, I had a dilemma. I was wondering whether to have a comfortable lifestyle business or the big payout. I’m pleased to say that 13 years later, I’m still happily running Financial Samurai as a comfortable lifestyle business. Sure, I’m not crazy rich. But I feel rich. More importantly, my wife and …
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When the state of California raised the sales tax by another 1% on April 1, 2009 I was pretty pissed. What kind of government expects their residents to pay a whopping 10% tax on everything they buy? Pedro doesn’t want to pay $200 in taxes on his $2,000 60-inch LCD TV. Nancy shouldn’t have to …
Why is everybody leaving Obama for someone else? This was the question I raised on October 11, 2010 when people started leaving. It’s interesting, because we kind of only think that many people left Trump during his administration. Despite persistent insistence of economic improvement, President Obama has lost more than half of his key economic …
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