Being a billionaire

People who have no money can’t use tax shelters.

I have to pay my taxes.

So should they.

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Years ago, I lived in a Mobile Home Park, yup a trailer park, but it was pretty nice and most of the homes had some yard, and there was a creek that meandered through etc, anyway, I got to talking to this old guy that had lived there for about 15 years, he said that the park changed owners every 5 years, and it was always bought buy another group of Dentists that band together for an investment club type thing, they can buy it, depreciate it on their taxers for 5 years, then they sell it, buy another park somewhere and do it all over again, nothing changes in the park to speak of, but the Dentists get to reduce their tax bite just by juggling their money around.

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^^^^ Yeah, that’s a typical game these asshats play. My husband once worked for a company that was bought by a guy who purposely drove the company into the ground in order to play some similar game.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have the spare cash to not pay taxes and effectively screwing over the public that feeds them.

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Yeah for all I knew, it might have been just two dental groups selling the same parks parks back and forth every 5 years.

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I actually misremembered the scenario. It was when we were first married. The guy came on as a CEO, drove the company into the ground, then bought it for a song.

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There’s got to be a pun there somewhere.:grinning:

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I bought my dental hygenist a plaque that said “world’s greatest hygenist”.

She kept scraping it off the wall.

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Tax exemptions are for reasons… for example… if you donated a million dollars… you’re helping. A lot. Don’t pay taxes on a million dollars of your income.

Let’s get rid of all the tax exemptions so people have no incentive to donate money… that’s what you want, right?

Charitable donations? I am talking about exemptions for corporations. Is it a charitable donation when Wal-Mart tells their employees to apply for food stamps, because their wages are so low, they qualify? Is it a charitable donation when a city pays to build a football stadium, fer Chrissake. Bromo, you need to educate yourself before you comment on political stuff. Clearly, you are not widely read and have very little idea what’s actually going on in the world.

Cities shouldn’t pay for football teams… I’ve always been against that but- stadiums mean jobs.

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Also my buddy works for Wal-Mart and makes $17/hr in North Dakota.

He loves it.

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So, he’s a manager paid to rip off the hourly workers and avoid cleaning bathrooms, right?

No, he’s an hourly tire technician

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I imagine you do understand that he gets paid more than most of the folks employed in service jobs at WalMart. I imagine that you understand that there are only a few people who do his job at each store, while there are hundreds who do the near-minimum wage shite.

Of course. He also is skilled labor and most everyone else isn’t.

Skilled labor gets skilled labor wage.

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So, then, your point in bringing him up was…?

Perhaps they should learn to work with tires.

Because if they all learned to work with tires, WalMart would suddenly have no need for cashiers, but would have need for thousands upon thousands of tire “specialists”?

Yup. CON logic wins again.

That there is plenty of happy people who work for Wal-Mart.

No one is forcing their hand to work there either :slight_smile:

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