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Tag Archives: taxes

Desertion

This is awesome – I’m pretty sure it’s accurate as well. While Obama’s side might look “fair” to many people, I think it will encourage the affluent to leave the country or move their businesses offshore, as well as their investments. It is a plan that will force our exports to decrease and our imports to necessarily increase since there will be less domestic industry. It is Rand’s nightmare realized. This will lead to a dramatic cost of living increase, [...]

Ayn Rand’s Robin Hood

Ayn Rand brings up an interesting point about Robin Hood in Atlas Shrugged. She argues that Robin Hood is remembered for robbing from the rich and giving to the poor based on need, and that this is not the correct way to think about the tale. Robin Hood indeed did rob from the rich and gave to the poor, but not because the poor simply needed money, but because the money had been stolen from them by the rulers. This [...]

Tax the rich

It’s time to raise the taxes on the rich in this country. I can’t believe that Warren Buffett only pays 17.7% on his $46 million. Why am I stuck paying 20-30%? That’s stupid. I hope the next president realizes this and fights to lower taxes drastically for anyone making sub-upper-level-executive salaries. I started trading options about a week ago, and made a little profit on Boeing. Redhat started taking off today, and I might buy a call on that. Watch [...]