One of the quandaries we face is tax. We live in societies and have learned it’s to our benefit to share. We build and benefit from roads and bridges and armies and all sorts of mutually enjoyed assets. These assets are paid for with tax.
Taxes often (well usually) are unfair. The richest usually pay the least in tax,
An NBC News article, “Richest Americans pay almost no income taxes, report finds” (1) illustrated how wealthy people in the U.S. are able to avoid income taxes by keeping the bulk of their wealth in investments that have little or no taxes.
The 25 richest Americans paid little to no federal income taxes, according to a report released Tuesday by the nonprofit news organization ProPublica, a claim that has reignited debate about the tax code and sparked an investigation by the IRS into the leak of private tax documents.
I am a Libertarian (always have been) and say more power to the wealthy. Keep you taxes as low as possible. They probably use the money to help society better than politicians do.
However the point of this message is to share the idea that there is a far great tax than the money.
The tax is on our longevity and we get to choose whether to pay it or not.
Telomeres are caps on the end of our chromosomes. These telomeres tend to lose length as we age. The shorter the telomere, the greater the risk of illness or death.
However we can lengthen these telomores. One way to stop the shortage and increase longevity is by avoiding excessive stress.
Here’s the dilemma. Often, the more we have, the more we stress out about tax.
This sad reality is shown in the CNN article about John McAfee’s death in a Spanish prison.
The article says: John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who’d had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. McAfee was awaiting extradition in a Spanish prison after being charged with tax evasion in the United States last year.
A statement from the Catalonia regional government Justice Department, which manages prisons there, “everything indicates” that McAfee could have died by suicide.
McAfee — founder of the eponymous antivirus software firm, with which he is no longer affiliated — was also indicted in March on separate fraud and money laundering charges. The US Department of Justice alleged that he and a business partner participated in a scheme that earned more than $13 million by falsely promoting cryptocurrencies to unwitting investors.
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Much of the world strives to attain material success so they’ll be happy. This can be a real stressful goal if it’s just the money that counts. And remember stress hinders longevity.
Consider another example.
During the last recession, a German billionaire quietly put on his coat, told his wife “I have to go to the office for a while”, and drove to a railway embankment near his home, where he lay on the frozen tracks and waited patiently for a train to crush him to death.
This man was ranked as one of the 100 richest men in the world, with a personal fortune that reached over $10 billion. But even though he was worth billions, the global recession left him feeling out of control.
A Telegraph article on why he committed suicide said: He did not need the money. He lived so modestly that he cycled to work on a 15-year-old bike for most of the year, and in bad weather he drove a four-year-old VW Golf. He had no bodyguards or servants, lived in an unimposing chalet-style house in the small town of Blaubeuren, his home for the past 60 years, without so much as a CCTV camera for protection, and stopped off at his local pub on his way home each night to share a drink with the regulars.
The blame for his demise was placed perhaps most importantly on loss of control. “His companies were his life and when he was going to lose control of them he obviously felt he would lose control of his life” a friend said.
“Richest Americans pay almost no income taxes”
If we place our happiness, peace and serenity on the hope that life will unfold as we expect it, we are creating a scenario, that’s highly likely to create stress and perhaps shorten (or in the case of McAfee) end our life.
One a very wise man told me that it’s important to have a purpose, not goals.
I pondered on this for a long time trying to sort out the difference. One answer that came to me is that a purpose is more flexible than a goal.
Goals are good, but are based on our expectation of how the future will unfold. A purpose is a deeper meaning that can be applied to any and every situation.
For example imagine how many goals were demolished by the COVID pandemic.
Here’s a teeny example. In 2019, my son and I started planning a totally wild and primitive week camping and hiking in some of the remotest parts of Alaska. We were set to go in May 2020. Jake already had his tickets to fly in.
That goal was wiped out, but our purpose, shifted, adapted and moved right along, for father and son to have time together sharing our deepest thoughts, uncluttered by anything… except maybe a Grizzly.
Shortly after, Jake had to drive through the night, from the Southwest of England to the Czech Republic. We spent that night alone, chatting all the way through Europe… on our phones. I was in Florida, yet our purpose was able to adapt.
In this rapidly changing world flexibility is good!
Pay tax or don’t, but do not let the process of avoiding it create stress (as McAfee did). There is the story of one newspaper publisher whose goal was to pay $1 million of tax in a year. When reviewing his tax filing with his accountant he saw that he owed something like $998,000. He asked his accountant if there was some way to have $2,000 more in tax due. “Not unless we cheat” said the accountant!
That man had the right idea knowing that having to pay more tax meant he was earning more.
We don’t always know our purpose and may sometimes wonder if our goals and action are on the right track. One clue is found in your feelings. If they are fun and fulfilling, you are headed the right way.
Gary
The Pruppie Club was created to help live serenely in a stressful world.
CHAOS CREATES MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOU
Cash in on the new normal.If the pandemic taught us anything it’s that the so called “experts” really don’t have a clue how to solve this problem. We cannot rely on their information. Instead, we need to plan for and prepare for our own “new normal” if we want to survive.
The pandemic has not been the real problem.
The global response to this viral outbreak is just a symptom of a world that’s sliding into a devastation and disorder. The worst turmoil is still to come because of economic, social and demographic tensions that have been building for 70 years.
With mounting government debt, globally, the current economic system that has run the global economy for decades, is in decline and disorder.
The current social economic archetype has already killed millions and destroyed the finances and lives of far more. Worldwide, unemployment is at an all-time high. Many businesses have been destroyed.
Governments are trying to solve the problem by throwing money on the fire and are they are being crushed in debt in the process.
Yet, the problem is just a beginning, because al that holding the system together is low interest rates and a lack of belief in inflation.
Yet inflation is here and with it will come higher interest rates that can crush stock markets and ruin the ability of governments everywhere to pay their debts.
To survive the coming economic downturns, you’ll need to learn the importance of adjusting how you live, work, invest and take care of yourself for the next ten to fifteen years!
You can’t rely on governments to bail you out.
Adapt!
That’s exactly what Merri and I have been doing for the last 50 years.
We have learned the power of being able to adapt to constantly changing markets all over the world and created a not-so small fortune while doing so. That’s why we’re uniquely qualified to teach you how to not just survive but to PROSPER during the challenging times ahead. Chaos always creates many opportunities for those who know how to spot them and take advantage of them. A good example has been the mass exodus from urban areas to more rural areas.
Since many are working from home, they can live anywhere. There is a shortage of good housing in rural areas now. Merri and I are buying then rehabbing houses to full the gap. We saw this opportunity coming and jumped in early.
We let readers know of the risks of a pandemic, back in 2016.
Many are already enjoying a safer more secure and financially stable lifestyle already despite the lockdowns and crumbling economy.
Instead of waiting for things to get better, start preparing for things to get worse, much worse.
You also need to learn how to spot opportunities which are all around you. As the economy changes, the opportunities will change too.
That’s why Merri and I keep a constant pulse on opportunities worldwide and report our findings to a special club of unique individuals that we started over 30 years ago. For decades, this club has been called the International Club, but this year we renamed it the Pruppie Club.
What is a Pruppie?
Pruppieism, the new economic and social realism. Pruppies, like Yuppies, expect everything to expand. They take advantage of every new benefit and technology they can. Pruppies enjoy using the fruits of our ancestor’s deliberations and labors to earn in this advanced technological world.
Pruppies, also, like Preppers, engage in activity that they love that will sustain them when society and the incredibly intricate weave of our global economy and society let us down.
We need to be both, Yuppies and Preppers, Pruppies!
Take profit from the incredible new technology that gives us super powers to earn and grow wealth. Be safe and secure, when social economic tidal waves like plagues, stagflation fascism and communism overwhelm the world.
Pruppies are prepared in case everything, everywhere, or at least everything relating to their income and savings fails and the fabric that surrounds their lives disintegrates into an unknown veil.
Yet a Pruppie’s preparation is not a sacrifice, but a joy as you will see.
Learn how you can become a Pruppie.
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I invite you to join those few who will become healthier, wealthier and more fulfilled in the decade ahead. Become a Pruppie, one of the core persons who will glide through the destruction and be able to help the world restore order.
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Enormous, economic, social, political and productivity change was already in the process. The pandemic however has accelerated and accentuated the process. You still have time to join the few who are left standing from the 2020 disaster.
You still have time to become one who will prosper during the 2020 decade. You can be one of a small elite group who will be able to help restore a healthy world order. The world will be very different from what we have known for the past seventy years, but when looked at in a framework of longer history… it’s the same old tale.
The last couple of millennia are filled with stories of empires rising and falling. There are basic conditions in each of these tales.
- First the idea of debt loses its real meaning and rising to levels that are unsustainable.
- Interest rates charged for debt fall to extremely low levels so the idea of investing for a known amount stops making sense.
- Central monetary authorities replace innovation and increased productivity as activators of the economy.
- Disparity of wealth widens dramatically and the spread increases.
- There is so much divisiveness in politics within countries that social and political conflicts spiral.
We’re seeing these changes rapidly happening now!
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Social and economic deterioration restricts safety, lifestyle, well-being and peace of mind. Social and economic shifts of this nature reduce the purchasing power of income.
Inflation, for example puts pensions and savings at risk. Growing deception allows manipulation of medical care, finances, the value of homes, how cars are bought, the price of gas, the education and raising of children, the food we buy and eat, the shows watched and the ways we work and play.
A very large and growing part of the public throughout the Western world no longer believes in the integrity of local or national government, law enforcement, health care, banking, pensions, legal systems, educational processes, media or church, just to name a few.
However, mistrust of anything authorities say has become so deeply rooted that even health assurances as serious as the pandemic have not been believed.
I invite you to join Merri and me in expecting the world to get better… to live and earn based on that expectation but… to also prepare for bad times as well as good. Just in case… the world goes sideways… we will still survive and prosper.
We do not give up anything much. We can enjoy the good parts of the new economy, as we protect ourselves from what can be bad.
Let me be clear. I expect that the world will get better, at least for the few who adapt and avoid the dangers that the changes from the COVID pandemic will bring.
The wealth of the world, albeit with inequality, will continue to grow. This collapse of the global economy will bring an incredible new opportunity for those who know what to do. These profit making avenues offer enormous income potential and even work well in disaster scenarios. Join the Pruppie Club so you can wake up every day knowing that you are prepared and in charge of your destiny.
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(1) www.nbcnews.com/business/taxes/richest-americans-pay-almost-no-income-taxes-report-finds-n1270069
(2) www.cnn.com/2021/06/23/tech/john-mcafee-death/index.html
