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Monaco is not exactly a low tax country if you have to pay the occupation tax (similar to property tax ) and you are not a billionair. It is actually not at all cheap to live in Monaco, it only cheap to earn your money outside Monaco and keep a residence address there. Even THAT costs a lot...

As I have said in other posts, I feel sorry for conservatives in America because the Republican party does not represent conservative ideals of minimalist government. THis thread is still off course because I am still wondering which country shows a more ideal balance between quality of life and...

The purpose of the question is to examine which countries manage to make a decent life for their citizens with a lower tax rate than America. In my opinion it is probably necessary to have a fairly high tax base in order to maintain society, but I am not sure. Perhaps there are countries that...

Which countries have lower overall tax rates than the USA but are also better places to live and work?

Wow, is this house for sale AGAIN? Doesn't it ever sell? I must have previewed this home three times in 2005-2006 and they were asking 1.5-1.7 M even then.

Dang, I thought I was going to get some pearls of wisdom for investment. Back to the drawing board....

I think the market will bottom when price/dividend ratios start to make sense, not when price/earning ratios look good. I for one have given up on phantom earnings from the BS that public corporations put out as an income statement. My new motto is "send me the money" not "show me the money".

I never could understand the expensive car thing either. I would think that flaunting a lot of money around would just tee off your clients. Of course these realtors only get their expensive cars by HELOC's on their spouse's home because you guys are forgetting the first law of being a realtor -...

A big problem with pure capitalism was brought out in Adam Smith's book "The Wealth Of Nations". You need agreements and regulations to ensure competition. Without some form of regulation, the richest entity inevitably eliminates competition and fixes prices as they approach monopoly status. I...

Look here blackvault, my mother in law is NOT my mother. I have no say over what she does with her money! I don't quite get where some of the attitude in these posts comes from....

Oh, and I forgot to mention it is a "big block" 1380cc engine dynoed at 68 hp to the wheels. Whoo hoo!

I built the Mini to vaguely replicate the 1969 works rally cars. At least the color (red with white roof) and the Minilite wheels look the same.

WTF? What incentive do I have to lie about my mother in law's bad news? Sometimes you guys need to do a reality check!

Dang, I did not know that Sarah Palin was in the news because she quietly went home after the elections and was being picked on by the media. Forgive me for my stupidity, but I thought she was ACTIVELY SEEKING media attention. If she wants more favorable attention, perhaps she needs to have...

Hey, I used to drive a 1962 Aston Martin DB4-GT Zagato. After my career as a real estate agent, I now drive a 1969 Mini Cooper. True story!

IOP; You have only won ONE small round in the investment sweepstakes. Who is to say that Charles Keating ( or Mr. Hyperinflation) will not figure out how to steal your "insured" CD's? How secure will you feel then? Let's see how smart we all are when we retire. I have been fairly...

I have not asked my mother in law how she managed to lose $500K out of a $700K nest egg. Right now, she won't talk to anybody, she is in shock. My sister in law says she just sits in front of the TV and refuses to talk to anybody, and my sister in law also confirms that the $500K evaporated. All...

Had a great Thanksgiving dinner with my family in Santa Barbara, best food I ever had. My father, 76 years old has lost half of his pension fund. My brother, the real estate developer, is going bankrupt after having finally accumulated 2 million in "equity". My 64 year old retired mother in law...

I have to admit that we liberals are jumping down the throats of conservatives too loudly, and too impolitely these days. It reminds me of being branded a liberal in the early Bush years when the Republicans would shout us down for not supporting our troops because we thought jumping into Iraq...

There is a church in Florence Italy that contains the tombs of Michealangelo, Dante, El Greco, Galileo, Da Vinci, and a host of other's I have forgotten. When I stood in the cathedral, I wondered"how did all these people come to Florence and do so much in a single generation? What was it about...