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Taxes?

Published

on December 26, 2006

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I got an interesting e-mail from a friend that contained a link to a video. It brings into question the legality of Income Tax. The thing is, this only affects people who don’t know how the tax laws work anyway. If you properly use the tax laws you can avoid paying the majority of taxes as it is. All that is required is educating yourself some on how they work. There are plenty of books and forums and help out there to learn how to get around paying taxes perfectly legally. I am worried this is going to become a Michael Moore type video. Anyone interested in watching it, the whole thing can be found at Google Video. It is about 1 hour and 45 minutes long. I also don’t like what it is called… America: Freedom to Fascism. They do present a very good argument, but there is one flaw. How many millions of people would be out of jobs if income taxes suddenly went away?

Update: I actually e-mailed the director of this movie, Aaron Russo and he brought up a good point. My argument almost makes it sound like I mean to say that Americans pay income tax just to employ accountants. I didn’t mean that. If America is doing something wrong, then by all means fix it. But a sudden change would be bad. I am just trying to point out that such a sudden and significant change could cause more upheaval and problems than the potential benefits of that change is worth. In the richest country in the world with the richest people in the world, we have to be doing something right. Anyone can become wealthy in this country, it is just up to the person as to whether or not it would be worth the effort. I also want to thank Mr. Russo for e-mailing me back so swiftly.

Why MacHeist and other free Mac Apps sites are a good thing.

Published

Adam

on December 16, 2006

in General

I have seen a lot of controversy about MacHeist, MacAppADay and other free Mac software. Some people say it is great, while many others say it is really hurting the shareware community. Personally I think it is a great boon to the entire Mac community as a whole. That is based on my experience though. I had been planning on purchasing a Mac for about the past 6 months. Then when I learned about MacHeist and started participating it pushed me over the edge and I finally bought one. I can’t be the only person that was on the fence and ended up buying one because of all of these events. Yes, maybe the shareware developers weren’t getting as much money as they could, but I think it helped create a larger market for them in the long run.

WasteAWeekend.com

Published

Adam

on December 14, 2006

in Uncategorized

Well there are many free software things like MacHeist and MacAppADay popping up all over the internet it seems. The process of getting the software is as fun as actually getting it free. A new one that I am starting to see a little bit of info about is called WasteAWeekend.com from the creators of MacAppADay. I don’t know much about it, but they have some interesting ads they have created and a neat little video below.