| | Right, I suppose one could analyze the P/E of companies and discerne if a corporate entity was simply plundering just as easy as one could look at ones tax returns and see if one was being plundered.
Now one has to be even more careful investing if one is to off set the new blue collar treatment of investing. At times it seems some have gotten overzealous interpreting Honored Learned Hand's observation that while taxing is a necessary maintnence of a society one does not have to be over charged.
How does one base the cost of living in our society? Obviuosly we all be paying for our status in one form or another. To keep up with the Jones representing us. One must pay an electric bill and its ensueing services that elctricity makes possible. One must pay the myriad insurances that are reuired to maintain ones lifestyle. Of course an umbrella policy would be too over bearing and economical. Not to mention too easy to defend. No profit in that set up. One does not even have the option of investing ones capital to build an asset to cover all the risks one should have coverage for.
Refuse disposal and water and effluent removal are also critical and necesaary facts of life. Then their are taxes, no matter if the employer has to pay the unemployment taxes or the worker does. It is only a paper tiger the way it is done. You could post it on my check if you like. Nothing personal just a cost of doing business. also a tangent. it would seem a majority of people also have obligations to society for local, state and federal taxes plus medicare and social security child care and support,plus property taxes, auto insurance and maintnence plus home maintnence from exposure to the weather. Oh and of course the ability to keep the hearth warm.
Nobody said peace and prosperity were gonna be cheap. I just don't know how much more of it I can produce for the people.Maybe we ought to go ask the Dying Gaullic trumpeter what went wrong. Why convince people that they have to live in a wash tub on the street when yer gonna make them do that anyway?
I wonder if any one will ever post a sign at the gate of Ishtar wondering where Agar, Ishmeal ,Sarah and Isaac and Lot ended up? Prolly not ,more ambitious people now a days doing the same o same o. Well we all know were they ended up . Whats more important is how they dealt with the here now hey?
I observed an add on the net called change starts with a girl. The concept is wonderful yet in real life having donated a cow to a business woman in a third world country how long do one think she will be able to maintain her property with out an AK47 to go with it. Now ask yourself again if you have made enough money yet.
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I do think, at a certain point you've made enough money
