By Frank Wagener|2019-09-17T23:36:50-07:00September 18th, 2019|Business|
Interest payments and living in chronic debt, can destroy you, but the banking industry and credit card companies thrive when Americans live beyond their means, and what is within your means depends on how much you have left over after the government takes its taxes. Did you ever stop to [...]
By Frank Wagener|2019-11-20T23:55:49-08:00September 4th, 2019|Individual|
(Please note this word "SCIENTER" before proceeding. Definition: "Knowledge, beforehand, of evil.") Apple Computer is now widely known to use a tax avoidance practice I call "The Jersey Shuffle." This practice is only feasible for large companies having operations outside the US. If you are interested in the nuances of [...]
By Frank Wagener|2019-07-25T08:42:43-07:00July 23rd, 2019|Business|
The candidates and politicians proclaim, "Everyone* must have skin in the game!", and the audience cheers. But did you miss the asterisk? The asterisk says; *(Except me and my special interests.) I talk with people about the FAIRTax who say, "I could never support a regressive tax." But if you [...]
By Frank Wagener|2019-04-04T15:16:06-07:00April 4th, 2019|Individual|
Across centuries and nations, laborers or âLaborâ has helped bring goods and services to market, in the broadest sense of the term. The lowest skilled of these have always commanded the lowest compensation. Among these were the Russian Burlakis or âboat haulers.â (Like the ones shown in this famous painting [...]
By Frank Wagener|2019-02-27T12:27:14-08:00January 17th, 2019|Individual|
*Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Historically the American worker is the most generous in the world both in terms of numbers of givers AND amount given. The American worker gives like no other and when asked, gives even more. Recently I have been hearing people say âI like to pay my [...]
By Frank Wagener|2019-01-04T20:51:54-08:00January 4th, 2019|Individual|
EVERY government program surely has its abusers. The Family Consumption Allowance (Prebate) will be no different, but one needs to measure it against the question âWill it be more or less corrupting to ambition and productivity in society than the existing system? Here are four common sense ways to conclude [...]
By Nancy Keesee|2018-12-28T06:26:37-08:00December 28th, 2018|Business|
When we see something needs fixân, we get at fixân it right now. We know the job will only be worse and cost more, if we ignore it. Grab your tool belt and join the rest of us to get the job done. Some have been trying to shore up [...]
By Nancy Keesee|2018-12-26T23:20:39-08:00December 23rd, 2018|Business|
Ride MOAC, âThe Mother of all Corruptionâ, into oblivion and beyond. Itâs time to scrap the âpower suckerâ of all time. This mission is powered by HR25/S18. This bill is our âsecret weaponâ. When Congress plays footsie with the financially well endowed, they stack the deck against those not so [...]
By Nancy Keesee|2018-12-26T23:22:52-08:00December 12th, 2018|Business|
The original Fair Tax act has been hiding in the shadows since 1999 when first introduced to Congress. It was developed by some 80 leading economists including a Nobel Laureat Why is the bi-partisan Fair Tax so unknown after all these years? Most members of both parties prefer to continue [...]
By Nancy Keesee|2018-12-05T20:27:28-08:00December 5th, 2018|Business, Government|
pay·o·la (noun): the practice of bribing someone to use their influence or position to promote a particular product or interest. ââŠ.. unless the deductions are removed, the tax code will remain afflicted by its greatest flaw. Namely, its preferencing of accountant interests over the economy. By forcing taxpayers into a [...]
