Card Slinger J said:
The current Debt level is almost that of our GDP and the current deficit is $1.6 Trillion. The thing about the U.S. is that it has a very robust economy that can take a hit. What needs to happen is a major cut in spending and revamp our tax system so that everyone is paying taxes.
Technically everyone is paying taxes. I'm assuming we all have a place of residence, so obviously you have to pay on that. Income tax is a very tricky thing because of all the loop-holes, but on average, most people pay tax on their income.
People who use 1031 exchanges can divert tax on the profit of the sale of a property (commercial property etc.). They would thus be getting out of paying for short term or long term capital gains.
Another avenue is using a Roth IRA. Let's say you put in 10k, and build it up to like 100k from stocks or whatever. From there, you pay for the down payment of a complex. All of the income of that income is non-taxable. Let's then say two years down the road you want to sell the complex for a 200k profit. All of the two year income plus the 200k profit on the sale is tax free.
The loop-holes of the rich are amazing.
Thing is, if there weren't any "rich" people buying up all this extra inventory, we would never get out of this "slump".
Our tax system is out of date despite that taxes aren't a good thing, but it needs to be greatly updated. The biggest things is over hauling some of these entitlement programs, If things don't change and we keep on this same track then yes we will end up like Greece with an even bigger surge of Anti-Government protests especially in Thailand currently as well.
The tax system is fine, but since the taxes are based on the prices from when the market was cranking, they are inflated. A main problem here is that the majority of people don't know that you can fight your taxes at the tax tribunals. Thus, a lot of Americans are paying over-priced taxes. This doesn't even count that when you go to a tax tribunal, depending on the city, it could take up to a year to get your taxes changed. However, they do reimburse you from the time you bought the property. Also, when you buy a property, your taxes are practically raised from the previous person's taxes. Once again, this is a huge issue because you're most likely paying less for their property than what they paid for it.
Tristan said:
I am no expert but I know that the econemy is not getting better like people say it is just trying to get better then burst
Currently, the bank is releasing the second load of commercial property that they have on their books. They didn't want to release it all at once, otherwise the huge bulk of inventory would decrease the overall value of their stuff. After this second batch gets picked up, we should see an increase in the economy. Therefore, it is getting better.
Tristan said:
Well here is the thing people think that the econemy is getting better well it is but it is just about to fall for the last time for a while. I know that in Florida people have more unemployment then anywhere else there are not that many people comeing for the tourism. BUt CRASH
I assume we'll stay stagnant for another year or a little sooner, but after that, we should start seeing an increase in values across stocks and real estate. Stocks are already higher than what they were awhile ago. I remember when I bought Microsoft for like $16 per share. Now, it's floating at around $27.