Please someone prove this one wrong

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Please someone prove this one wrong
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Sat, 02-28-2009 - 1:45pm

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Registered: 01-12-2004
Wed, 03-04-2009 - 11:18am

Hon, as I said in an earlier post, everyone has to make choices, even Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.

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Registered: 10-15-2008
Wed, 03-04-2009 - 11:40am

Wooo I can post again! NO idea what happened there.


Anyways....life has never been an even playing field..never will be. There are many people born with the will to suceed...but not the ability to do so. If it were truly so easy to be sucessful..then why are only 5% of the country wealthy? Is the rest of the nation truly lazy and unmotivated? 95% of the population is really like that? I think not.


I always wonder to myself...what would the perfect conservative country look like? NO welfare...no social security...no abortions...flat taxes...


If anyone wants to humor me...I'm truly curious.

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Registered: 12-08-2008
Wed, 03-04-2009 - 12:14pm

>>All things considered, I'm looking at what I've got and what I can give, not what I'm giving up....<<

Considering that you do have to consider "all things" when considering what to give and the act of "giving up" itself causes you to consider what you're giving up (because you don't just give blindly) your comment makes conflicting statements.

Now since so many people seem not to understand me when I write I will phrase this in another way as well:

You have to know what you're giving up in order to know "what you've got"

And you must know/consider what "you're giving up" unless you are just turning over a blank check

As I laid out in another post part of budgeting is knowing how much you have coming in and how much you having going out. Considering the affect taxes has on these factors is prudent planning.

If you know (as in my earlier example) that you can afford to give away $6,500 of your income and as such you tax bracket will allow you to give $10,000 away which will directly benefit the recipient because that will result in a $6,500 hit to your budget which you have determined will work for you--you give away $10,000.

When the rules are then changed on you and your reduction is reduced that $6,500 dollars you're giving up suddenly only allows you to directly give around $9100 or....my second attemp again just for clarity:

Currently to donate $6,500 of your income to a worthy cause/charity that charity receives $10,000 from you.

Under the new Obama plan to donate $6,500 of your income to a worthy cause/charity that charity now receives $9,100 from you.

Your loss of $6,500 in income is the same. It's the charity the government is ultimately taking from. Just another way to control your money.

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Registered: 08-26-2007
Wed, 03-04-2009 - 1:15pm

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Registered: 02-23-2009
Wed, 03-04-2009 - 1:20pm

You are just a much better person than me.


I didn't see her meaning this at all.

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Registered: 08-26-2007
Wed, 03-04-2009 - 1:33pm

I didn't say that she said that or even meant that.

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Wed, 03-04-2009 - 1:42pm
I do have to say that at times I get annoyed when I feel I am being talked down to by a much younger person.
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Wed, 03-04-2009 - 2:15pm

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Registered: 08-26-2007
Wed, 03-04-2009 - 2:45pm

"Things are very bad. "


I am sorry to hear about your friends husband.


Yes they are very bad

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Registered: 01-22-2009
Wed, 03-04-2009 - 2:50pm

~The same could be said for someone saying that they are "poor" ... but they aren't IMPOVERSHED.~


Understood.

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