Archive for 'Taxes' Category

What lies beneath

1 July 2009 by Christopher Suleske

Gary DeMar at the American Vision blog has a good primer piece on the Judeo-Christian foundation behind free-market economics (and one can argue the secular-humanist crumbly foundation beneath socialism). Salient nugget concerning Americans of today:
The average American has only vague notions of these ideas. While most Americans would agree that stealing is wrong, they [...]

Keeping up with… yourself

6 August 2007 by Christopher Suleske

IF you aren’t keeping up with the proverbial Joneses, why not? Read this NYTimes piece and catch up, man! Does bring up a good point, one I’ve made a few times, that a million or two hardly makes one “rich”. My current expenses are such that 5% interest on $1million, after taxes, [...]

5 steps to financial freedom

14 March 2007 by Christopher Suleske

Courtesy of Mark Skousen and InvestmentU, here is Sir John Templeton’s 5-Step Strategy for building wealth with risks, bargains, and tax deferral:
Here is Templeton’s five-step formula for financial independence, based on almost a century of experience.
Strategy # 1: Take Calculated Risks. John Templeton started off by taking significant risks in his business and investments. [...]

Serious tax reform

2 March 2007 by Christopher Suleske

ARNOLD Kling, who writes for the libertarian e-rag, Tech Central Station, is always coming up with interesting reanalyses of subjects which on the surface appear to have been analyzed sufficiently. That said, Kling does a great job at examining angles somehow missed in earlier swags. His piece, Toward a Single-Digit Tax Rate is [...]