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Raisins at Aldi's is up to $1.99 from $.99 how's that math work out?

I have carried a knife for as long as I can remember. Grew up on a farm and later worked in retail and private ag, so it's just...

Well, if they invested the money rather than indulged in it, a lot more of good could have been done was my point.

Not a jar, but how about burying their money in a Rolls-Royce? I found an article about a piece Milton Friedman wrote in Newsweek that...

What if it wasn't a primary residence, but a vacation home they rent out. Would it have been a reasonable example then?

Think about it for a moment. When a business owner generates profit, what does he/she do with it? Most of them reinvest the majority...

I think I see what you did there, so getting back to Assisted Living which I am currently in the process of securing for a good friend...

I see. In other words, if they had a ten-room house, after the government takes away 27.6% of the gain they'd only be able to replace...

I don't think it applies here. I relish this conversation in the hope it educates more people than just me. Politicians should do a...

Right. Imagine your parents bought a house in 1975 for $35,000. Today, it’s worth $600K. That’s $565K in “long term capital gains”...

1) $500K is a top 1% income. You called it "lower level employee". Pure nonsense, and it exposed the emotional, counter-factual basis...

So, on a million dollars of passive income, there's $76,000 of "inflation tax" on an investment that didn't really gain any value at...

Still looking for an explanation. If the capital gain is due to inflation, say 20% over the last three years, the billionaire needs to...

:yeahthat: When I was 8 years old, my Cub Scout uniform included a belt clip for hanging a Scout knife. Once a week, we Cubs had a...

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