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szhosain wrote:...And, yes, I make more than $100k a year, but I do not have an accountant ... (a) I can't afford one and (b) the accountant will not save me more in taxes than he would cost me.
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Do you own your own company, or are you paid by someone else? The more thought that I put into this, the more I realize that my perspective is a bit skewed. I am using my boss as a reference point. He owns the company, and writes off everything from gasoline to lunch. It seems like his entire life is a business expense, which isn't exactly untrue. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have a job.
I guess that I'm a little bitter because he gets to write off his car as a business expense because we're consultants and need to drive around to do our job. I on the other hand, can't write it off because I'm a salaried employee. We both do extremely similar jobs, yet he owns a company which gives him some shelter, while I own little more than the clothes on my back which means that I pay and pay.
All things considered though, it's not all bad. I'm all for incentives that give people motivation to work hard. My boss just bought a 993 twin-turbo, AWD Porsche. For a second, I was jealous. Then I asked myself if I was willing to work 60 hour weeks, and the honest answer is no, I'm not. So, that's why he's driving a Porsche, has an M5 in the garage of a fat house overlooking the ocean and I'm living on the edge of the ghetto in Long Beach. Here in America, you get what you put into it.....
I just wish the government didn't charge us so much for the privledge of being American.
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Paid by someone else, although if this company were ever sold, or did an IPO, I would make a fair amount - enough to pay off the house and buy some neat new toys. But not enough to stop working permanently!Phax wrote:Do you own your own company, or are you paid by someone else?
Quote »All things considered though, it's not all bad. I'm all for incentives that give people motivation to work hard. My boss just bought a 993 twin-turbo, AWD Porsche.[/quote]Good stuff! 
Quote »For a second, I was jealous. Then I asked myself if I was willing to work 60 hour weeks, and the honest answer is no, I'm not. So, that's why he's driving a Porsche, has an M5 in the garage of a fat house overlooking the ocean and I'm living on the edge of the ghetto in Long Beach. Here in America, you get what you put into it.....I just wish the government didn't charge us so much for the privledge of being American.[/quote]
Very true in all regards! That is one of the privileges that we all have being in this country. I came here about thirty years ago, and do not regret it one bit. I am an American citizen and like it here, although, being a Muslim, I find myself on the horns of a classic dilemna: I intensely dislike what the US is doing in Iraq (and has done in the past in that and other areas), but I also intensely detest terrorism and am angry at what the world now sees in the Muslim world because of the actions of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Argh ... caught between a rock and a hard place ...
The only thing I do miss about being here are the close ties with family - we all lived in the same city and could see each other often. Here, we are spread apart - my closest relative is a cousin in San Francisco and that is an hour drive. So we do not meet often. Oh, well ...
As an aside, I am glad that you have put things into perspective. Life goes on.
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