Friday, April 8, 2016

Wealthy hide assets; we pay more taxes

The Wealthy control governments and hide assets—new info
"Panama Papers," that detailed how global leaders and public figures hid wealth in offshore tax havens. They have already prompted the prime minister of Iceland to step down. The data raises many questions: Why “only the little people pay taxes.” America’s wealthy have hidden crimes we will never hear about using shell corporations and other legal devices to avoid reporting income which is illegal. Many government leaders skim assets from contracts/relationships during the course of their jobs. They set up fake corporations to get access to good courts and sophisticated financial laws. Others use Panama to launder money. Shell companies are used to move money into US real estate to legitimize fraud/theft by officials. Wealthy Americans and their corporations have used shell entities in other countries like Panama.

Congressmen become the super rich using insider info that is illegal for us
Among the powerful politicians, the portfolios of Republicans outperform the market by 32.05% to 36.19% under a one-week holding period. “Our results imply that the performance of congressional portfolios is mostly driven by private information” that they have and we don’t “based on their power and party membership," Serkan Karadas, economist, Sewanee: The University of the South, writes in the study.
Worse, Congress passed a law that says they are above the law (Insider trading is illegal for us). The study, which looked at almost 62,000 trades made by members of Congress in 2004-2010, found outperformance of 22.13 to 24.16% under a one-week holding period on an annual basis. That short-term outperformance is significant, implying that the politicians were trading on time-sensitive information. Worse, Republicans with little financial experience are beating Wall Street’s “top traders.”
Why let Congress have all the benefits of the tax code: http://www.amazon.com/Win-Investment-War-Earn-11/dp/1522916369


America’s future?
GOP experiment fails: Cut taxes—no services, no jobs, no freedom
Every state where the GOP has cut taxes for the rich to invest and grow the economy has failed. GOP raised the LA sales tax to 10% so rich get more. The rich have moved on to other ways to use their tax breaks. They want big returns NOW so they go to Mexico like Carrier of Indy did. Why pay $20 an hour when you can pay $20 for the week. Carrier got $5.1 million in clean energy tax credits in 2014. The Carrier’s owners took the money. Indiana is one of the states that are run by GOP but the leading job states are Utah, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Florida, Oregon, Arizona, Georgia, California, and South Carolina. IN joined the anti-union states. Even Forbes says tax cuts don’t make jobs. Trump says workers make too much so his voters are due for a big surprise. CA raised taxes for CA kids and the economy took off.
GOP doesn’t learn: lawmakers are funded by the rich and elected by the religious right.

GOP religion blasphemes the real “miracle” of God’s creativity
GOPs of many states are rewriting their laws to create their own form of religion. They want to live in the 1800s when people thought the history of the universe was in Genesis. One “rep” claims he found Noah’s Ark and ‘proof’ God created the Earth. Louisiana GOP is brainwashing their kids to think science does not exist. Jobs will be denied to this generation. (the middle-class Scots of 1750 were better educated.) LA ignores the 1967 Supreme’s decision that there can’t be a state religion. LA GOP wants to stop premarital sex and other behavior they don’t like. Over 50% of the voters think evolution is wrong so the GOP can keep control of LA for another generation. The kids just won’t learn about the real “miracle” of God’s creation that science continues to unfold every day. God created it all--science too.

GOP religion is NOT the Christian message
MS legalizes discrimination that business people don’t want and didn’t ask for. Baker wants to bake cakes for everyone. Listen to this Christian explain why this law is NOT his or Jesus’ message. Jesus did not turn away those people who were outcast from society. He did NOT shun the whore or Roman tax collector both despised by the official religionists of the day. Jesus uses the example of the stranger being given food by the righteous: “Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
GOP religion is NOT Christianity but the message of hate for other people.


Why your broker/advisor is giving up on commissions
Your financial person is going through an “identity” crisis. They are faced with the fact that the largest money manager is charging less and less—0.05% for 10.8% a year return since 1976. They know that pushing you into their latest “super” fund offered by their firm is probably wrong and not best (just “suitable”) for you. However, how can they reach their goal of earning $ millions from others’ money? If they don’t take 5.25% up front plus 1-1.5% every year, the firm won’t let them keep you as a client. Obama is closing in on their misleading and inappropriate recommendations to clients in the Fiduciary Rule. When they switch you to a “managed” account, they can earn 2-3% per year. That is steady income but requires them to find more folks like you. They can’t wait for the young investor to grow their account. Many young are already using “robos” that mirror your “managed” portfolio offerings at cost.
Despite what your advisor says, that 1% plus expense ratio each year will cost you up to 63% of your total possible accumulations. Ouch!
Fear of making a mistake is the biggest reason you don’t move to the largest manager.
 
GOP hates Obama so much they are willing to make the Supremes liberal
McConnell says no hearing and no vote on Obama’s nominee; a nominee many GOP supported in his last job search. GOP must hate Obama a lot. If Hillary wins, she will pick someone more appealing to her political left. The new Senate may confirm this person because they won’t have the votes to reject. The GOP’s base will be angry they lost again and the new Supremes have a 5-4 liberal majority. Plus all these old white men in Congress will need to “answer” to a woman.
GOP hate will only bring regret—this is a democracy—“compromise is thy name.”
 
GOP admits it: voter ID laws were created to stop Dems from voting
WI GOP representative Grothman says that the new laws are meant to suppress Dem votes. After 200 years of voting with little voter fraud, it is common knowledge that the sudden GOP zeal for protecting voters is right out of the Nixon dirty tricks play book. Back in June 2012, a Republican leader in the Pennsylvania legislature boasted that a voter-ID law was “gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania.”
Dems win when there is a large voter turnout. GOP fills House in non prez years.

Supremes vote to keep Congressional districts democratic, not elitist
Finally agreement on something (without Scalia): States cannot use registered voters for redistricting representation in this democracy. Believe it or not, there are GOP groups that wish to cut out most Americans from being represented in DC or receiving benefits based on their number in their district. If your our representations were based on registered voters only, we would end up with 20% of Americans deciding what the other 80% wanted. This would take our society back to the origins of the republic when only wealthy white men decided everything. Most of us would have no say in the running of the country, how we were taxed and who was sent to prison or to war.
Sounds pretty much what we have.

Congress consists of wealthy white men collecting subsidies for no-show jobs
If your employer measured your production (down) compared to your salary and benefits (up), they would fire you within 6 months. Most representatives spend most of their day raising money for themselves.  In 2012, House incumbents raised an average of $2,400 per day in the two-year cycle. Senate incumbents raised an average of more than $4,700 per day over six years. Their election costs have risen 344% so the rest of the money comes from PACs and we don’t know who gave the money. Most Congressmen supplement their salary by betting on sure things—deals that require insider information they obtain from their jobs. That is illegal for us to do but not for the people who actually make the laws.
They use information to get rich and get paid for no work and they call us welfare cheats!


Our retirement fund became our emergency fund
Despite the fact that employer pensions have all but disappeared from the workplace by 2000, workers are raiding their 401k and investment accounts early. With the recession taking its pound of flesh to pay for unexpected unemployment periods of 6 months or more, more workers feel retirement funds are a lost cause. Dipping in for a special prize for a family member seems OK to almost half survey respondents. More parents are saving for college over saving for retirement. Most workers think investing 6% of salary will provide a comfortable retirement.


Does our President need to be smart and truthful? Do they even care about truth?

Trump: “Donald Trump” branded heroin sold in NH by supporter
            Ivana: “we need immigrants. Who’s going to vacuum and clean up after us?
            “But Donald cannot be calm,” she admits.
            Ford sending 2800 jobs to Mexico despite Trump threat to Mexico trade embargo.
            Refunds $ millions to tenants to settle fraud suits before Pres vote

Cruz: Kasich is liberal giving ObamaCare to poor; forget that I bought ObamaCare too.
Hill: I am getting tired of this guy who can’t win anyway unless GOP helps.

Bern: I can’t tell you how I will do all the things I plan to do since I need Congress to act


Regulators are the only protection we have since we can’t sue anymore
            “It is nearly impossible for one individual to take on a corporation with vast resources.” (GOP bill requires impossible: every person in class action suffer “same type and scope of injury”)
               Supremes stop us from suing—State courts no longer available to sue corporations!

.Fracking causes earthquakes but Big Gas manages regs so wastewater is hazard.
.John Scott Clark, Utah felon of $1.7 million promised insider deal on Iraqi currency/oil.  
.Auto insurance rates OKed by your state; Find best deal for you:
.Safety violations killed 22 people and mine owner gets 1 year only
.Obama got Pfizer to stay in US and pay its taxes

We need regulation—GOP wrong—companies/cities wouldn’t fix bad products on own


How our government wastes our money
Our armed forces are using defective L-3 EOtec gun sight not replaced: never tested?


SCAMS
Pope still excludes divorcees and others from full church—“change comes slowly”

Who owns your account now?


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