the text you quoted was in the context of Wordman working on a deal with me, in which case he would have hired me to receive tax advice. I agree with you that of course there are lots of deals where it is not necessary to hire me in the first place, but that doesn’t have anything to do with the scenario Wordman and I were discussing.
Let me get this straight , you have 2 hours of free time a day, a young child, a 33 year old wife, lots of money and you waste time posting. Either you’re a liar or an idiot.
And that is why you will never make the big money.
Rich, indeed.
My wife and I (and our soon-to-arrive baby) own a small, inexpensive house in a beautiful, forested historic district in a city we both love. We are both doing things which we find important and useful to both our own happiness and the well-being of the world at large (she works with libraries, I am an ecologist). I have a basement devoted to my one real hobby - music. We have pets, and the small (plastic, in-ground) pond in our wooded back yard attracts hordes of beautiful frogs in the Spring. My yard blooms with native flowers, the hummingbirds love our place, and I have a black king snake in the pile of rocks right out beside where I keep the canoe.
I’m richer than the OP.
Nah, son. You got served.
But back to the OP,
Have you ever felt any guilt for throwing away money…I mean for making an entirely frivolous purchase? I don’t think I would. I would burn mad money, man. I told my daughter that if I ever hit the lotto (I don’t play) Imma burn through whatever she thinks her inheritance will be, so she better plan on paying her own way through life!
My apologies if this question has already been asked. I’m at work and only skimming.
You need to stop thinking that (i) something won’t be done if the government doesn’t do it and (ii) if I don’t want the government to do something then I don’t want it done.
A convenient excuse for your andropathy.
In reality, you would not either. You will not donate to charity, you would not help a starving person.
I wrote this post in 20 seconds while waiting for something to print at work, thus not taking time away from work or family. But thanks for your concern. BTW, I know you are new here, so you should know that I’m the only person that it is OK to call a liar or an idiot in MPSIMS.
Perhaps you will consider the collective action problem this time.
Heh heh. The $600/hr tax lawyer has to print his own stuff. Now that’s believable.
And he just wasted $3.33 of somebody’s money posting on the Dope.
Hope that wasn’t billable!
You are wrong. You don’t have the intellectual ability to attack my ideas, so you impugn my motives. It’s really sad.
I don’t give much to charity now because charity is forced from me. I would give more to charity if it were solely volubtary because I could choose how my money is spent.
Bull, and you know it.
So I assume you did not bill anyone for that 20 seconds?
You appear to have a business-as-second-language understanding of the words, but you clearly are tone-deaf to the music. You are an hourly tax grunt. You make nothing happen. You are not powerful. And by your own accounting, you are not rich. Why do you feel the need to expose yourself as such a pathetic tool?
Please refrain from personal insults in MPSIMS.
twickster, moderator
So you consider everything that you pay in taxes to be charity?
Or what are you trying to say here? You are not very good at explaining yourself, it seems to me. Maybe you have noticed.
Thank you for saying this. I think **Rand Rover **is one of those guys who reads *Atlas Shrugged *and winds up idolizing the wrong Taggart.
I’ve never compared myself to Hank or Dagny, but I’m nothing like Jim Taggart or Wesley Mouch. I guess I’m more like Dagny’s assistant (Eddie Willers or something).