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FreeMiner

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imprimis

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I'll take 26 mil a year after taxes for 30 years set up in a trust so it still pays even after I die an early death. I don't think I could spend 26 million every year for 30 years, but could definitely go through 430 million before 30 years was up.
I understand the math. However, what guarantees are there that anyone will get all the payments? Gov't could simply say we're taking it. They certainly will change the tax rates in the next 30 years which will have an effect on future payments.

A bird in the hand...
 

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I understand the math. However, what guarantees are there that anyone will get all the payments? Gov't could simply say we're taking it. They certainly will change the tax rates in the next 30 years which will have an effect on future payments.

A bird in the hand...
I remember reading back in the day it is basically written into the state constitution they have to pay you or something along those lines. You make a good point doe.
 

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I remember reading back in the day it is basically written into the state constitution they have to pay you or something along those lines. You make a good point doe.
I would certainly take the payments if that was the only choice. As an "old" I'd rather have it now and be able to set up my family for life (maybe). I also have several charities I would love to give some money to. Do all that and there would still be a couple hundred million to play with. At my age, I don't need fancy cars or mega-houses. Just a nice place in the country where the Sprint man would have a hard time finding me. Might even have fun playing Secret Santa.
 
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Don't know if I just haven't been paying any attention to posters lately, but feel like I haven't seen you post in a while.
"The Rapture" as it is understood today, by many dispensationalists, is not in the Bible. It is doctrine created by and man named John Nelson Darby, in the mid 1800's. Before then, it was not taught in church.

Point being: there are no second chances, we are in the times now, from which Jesus will return. Jesus returning is the end.

 

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I hope God makes their next life the worst it can be.
Agree, Biden wants to add 87,000 additional IRS enforcement agents which will make the average person's life miserable. They are not only for the limited number of millionaires and billionaires.
Compare that number to our Border Patrol which has about 22,000 agents.

As far as the additional IRS agents they will be like a policeman that follows you for 500 miles knowing you will probably commit a crime.
 

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Agree, Biden wants to add 87,000 additional IRS enforcement agents which will make the average person's life miserable. They are not only for the limited number of millionaires and billionaires.
Compare that number to our Border Patrol which has about 22,000 agents.

As far as the additional IRS agents they will be like a policeman that follows you for 500 miles knowing you will probably commit a crime.
True but this usually doesn’t apply to average Americans (I think). This is detrimental to the people that nickel an dime everything on tax returns.
 

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The American Experiment

Transcript
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"Clearly the American experiment in the 18th century was
designed to create and maintain - sustain - the smallest
government in the history of the world. That was the goal of
the Founding Fathers. The specific goal was to create the
smallest government in the history of the world.
Now, if I say that I have come up with some cure for AIDS or
HIV infection or whatever. Then if I say, you know, drink
this coffee and you'll be immune to the infection, or the
infection will be .00001% of the population and everybody
drinks my medicine and then we end up with the largest AIDS
or HIV infection epidemic in the history of the planet -
that is specifically inflicted upon those who took my
medicine - then clearly we can say that my medicine is not
only not working it is doing the opposite of working. It's
causing people to get infected rather than curing them. That
would be the logical conclusion that if everybody who takes
my medicine which is claimed to be a cure ends up getting
sick. Then clearly it's not a cure but rather an infection.
So if we look at the history of the United States, the grand
experiment in minimal states - in small government. If we
look at the history of it over the past 200+ years, it's
clear that while the system was objectively clearly put in
place with obviously no income tax, tiny federal government,
no state tax, just a couple of excise tariffs, no standing
army, and no government control of the money supply, no
national debt, with a Constitution, Congress, all of the
checks and balances. An amazing designed system of checks
and balances. I couldn't do any better. Maybe you could, but
I wouldn't put a lot of money on it because there were
pretty smart people who were doing this.
The U.S. experiment was specifically designed to create the
smallest possible government and to sustain control over the
government.
The goal is to cure the power of the government, right? That
was the goal. That is what it was designed to do.
And...
What has the result been?
Just look at it objectively.
The goal of the American experiment was to create the
smallest possible government that the history of the world
had ever seen. Ever.
What is the result of that experiment been?
Well, the result of the experiment to create and sustain to
create and sustain the smallest possible government in the
history of the world has been the creation of the largest,
most powerful government that the world has ever seen.
Just take a moment, let that bubble through your cranium for
a bit. It's really quite astounding. Weapons of mass
destruction with 700+ military bases overseas. With the
capacity to wipe out all life on the planet many times over.
A government whose power would make Rome look like a local
DMV office.
This is natural. Sadly, it's inevitable.
Because the smaller you make a government in the beginning,
the faster the economy grows - the more productive is the
free market. Because the free market is so productive it can
handle a lot of taxation, a lot of growth in government
power before buckling.
So, what happens is when you make the government small, you
make the profitability of increasing the size of the
government that much greater. Because there's more wealth to
tax, there's more resources to control, so you attract more
and more government. And because the government ends up with
so much money when it taxes and controls a quote 'free-
market economy,' because the government ends up with so much
money and power, it can do things like develop weapons of
mass destruction, have a permanent military-industrial
warfare-welfare state. It can buy up massive sections of the
population and embed them into dependence on the state.
It's like if you find a way to get your cows to produce ten
times as much milk, all you do is make those cows more
valuable to be owned by farmers.
So when you have a small government, and you make each
individual citizen that much more productive because of a
lack of government interference, that citizen becomes that
much more profitable to rule from the state.
The smallest governments always produce the largest
governments.
It's completely impossible for it to occur any other way.
It never has in history, never will.
The smallest government that came out of the separation of
church and state in the taming of the aristocracy in
England, in the 17th - 18th - early 19th century, that was
the smallest government in Europe. What did it produce? Why
- it produced the British Empire.
Whenever you minimize government, you increase the value of
the economy, which means that the government can grow larger
and larger.
It's like the further you push it down, the higher it
bounces.
So even if we were able to get back to some magical
constitution-limited government, all that would happen is
the whole process would start all over again."

 

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True but this usually doesn’t apply to average Americans (I think). This is detrimental to the people that nickel an dime everything on tax returns.
Maybe

I think it will be an Obama-style program that went after political opponents like the Tea party, True the vote, and talk show hosts on steriods. With the help of big Tech, anyone disagreeing with the Dems will be targeted as another scare tactic.
 

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