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Touchi-Peters, 48, a composer and former conductor of the Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra, said he had trouble finding people to whom he could relate on other social sites.
"I saw a need for an environment where you could talk about the finer things in life without backlash -- an environment where people could share similar likes and experiences," he said.
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They say $9K/yr for auto insurance but then only (discretionary) $15K/yr for new cars. That alone is pretty clear evidence that whoever came up with the figures just pulled them out of their ass.
They probably got some underpaid member of staff or perhaps an intern to do it. I bet all the Wall Street Journal staff that get $200K/yr or more were too busy with business lunches or 'networking golf games' to do it.
I can't get over the $25,000 a year in house maintenance. Are they adding a bathroom or roof every year or something? Hell, my roof only cost me 1/4th of that.
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I can't get over the $25,000 a year in house maintenance. Are they adding a bathroom or roof every year or something? Hell, my roof only cost me 1/4th of that.
Maid service, pool service, and lawn care service.
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Income taxes are a bitch when you make $400,000 per year, probably $80-90,000 for Federal and the rest for State.
I'll have to ask my sister, that's about what she makes. However, I would bet her budget looks a bit different.
Core Expenses
House $165,000
Mortgage 9,000
Property Tax 2,000
Home Maint 4,000
Util & Bills 5,000
Grocery 5,200 Auto Insurance 1,200
Subtotal $25,200
Discretionary Expenses
Vacations $7,000
New Car 5,400
Entertainment 4,000
Org. Dues 1,200
Gifts 5,000
Fundraising 5,000 Support for Kids 9,600
Subtotal $37,200
Total $62,400
Which leaves $337,600 to pay taxes. No wonder she was able to whip out $120,000 worth of student loans in just a few years.
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He rejected US citizenship so that he could avoid paying taxes to the US government and its subsidiaries, but he's now complaining that US authorities won't give him a visa to allow him to visit the US again.
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The official reasoning behind Ver's rejection is that he doesn't have sufficient "ties" to his country of residency in the Caribbean and has not demonstrated he has "the ties that will compel [him] to return to your home country after your travel to the United States," according to a picture he tweeted of a letter that appears to be from the embassy.
In short, US officials are worried that Ver might choose to stay in his native country illegally.
He's rich enough to be easily detached from any one place. Given his wealth, he could invest it in some superconservative investments, returning only 0.1%/year, and still have a huge income. Enough to live out of hotel rooms wherever he goes.
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The fiercely libertarian entrepreneur has also appealed for others to follow his lead on citizenship, in June launching a website that helps wealthy people pay their way to citizenship on his new island home of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis in the West Indies.
On our cruise over the holidays, we visited Grand Cayman. The tour driver showed us a new complex being built and told us that much of it was paid for by the Dart family, of plastic cup fame. He said Dart was also building them a freeway. I silently stewed thinking that the Dart family is from Michigan and I could thank the Cayman's tax haven for our crappy roads while they got a nice, new one.
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- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
Yes, and more people around the world have escape extreme poverty thanks to the riches
so everyone is better except some entitled american and european middle class, what is wrong about that?
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Re: Yo, top 1%: shut the fuck up
Touchi-Peters
Super Sekrit Forum.
And where are you even going to go for only 12.5k on average?
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