My tweets are random thoughts around family, cooking, traveling, investing, and religion. Anything I post is NOT investment advice, do your own homework.
@CL4WS_OUT Sad that this young man wrecked his future by taking another young man’s life. He changed the trajectory for his family as well as his victims family.
Horrible.
So, I make $100 and the government takes 1/3 of that.
I take the 2/3 remaining to me and I buy something that I need.
They tax that.
I take what is left over and split it in half: half to the bank and have to an investment account.
The interest I make from the bank?
They tax that.
The interest I make from my investments?
They tax that.
If somehow, after all the confiscations, I’m able to buy myself a piece of land they will tax my purchase.
Then, even though they pretend I owe the land, they charge me every year for the right to live on it.
While the Democrats and Republicans keep us fighting each other over how much billionaires are taxed, we stop looking at how much money they take from us and pour into a monstrous bureaucracy that every day seems to take away a little more of our freedoms and give us less in return.
Just a note for all of you who have picked a side in the tyrannical two party system.
As many of you well know, Bob Dylan means a lot to me. His birthday is this Sunday, and I recorded his song “You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go” in tribute to him. Happy 85th birthday, @bobdylan!
Charlie Munger: "If you're trying to do better than average, you're lucky if you've got four things to buy."
"To ask for twenty [things to buy] is really asking for egg in your beer. Very few people have enough brains to get twenty good investments."
Happy Feast of St. Joseph the Worker. To honor him, advocate for the rights of workers, unions and labor, all part of Catholic social teaching.
Image: Ade Bethune.