You realize that the sole reason that contractor roles exist is as a (relatively short sighted) cost control tool right? If companies stopped using contractors as a way to manage costs they’d have no use for contractors.

Compensation refers to your total package. Pay refers to your cash. Most of those executives’ comp is overwhelmingly in the form of RSUs and relatively little cash.

Your company isn’t gonna have an owner?

“Your points are valid, but the subset of people who will take that rent/buy monthly variance and actually invest are small. They’re the exception, not the rule.”

“Whatever that motivation was is immaterial.”

It’s not sort of unfair it’s completely unfair. The only fair ways to distribute tax burden is equally (x/330,000,000) or according to consumption. Somehow people can figure this out when a group goes out to dinner but when the federal government is involved suddenly “fair” gets redefined.

“I work 40 hours a week therefore I should be able to afford the American dream”

America’s federal tax problem stems from the fact that 80% of the population doesn’t contribute much of anything to the pot but has an insatiable appetite for more.

It is absolutely true that a renter’s rent goes towards the owner’s efforts at building equity. So? You’re not looking at the bigger picture. What happens when the renter uses the delta in cost between renting and owning and invests it? TwoCents is a personal finance blog. Everyone reading it is investing or working…

It’s not really about renting vs owning. The key is controlling and ultimately minimizing your housing expenses. Housing is an expense; a liability. Regardless of whether you rent or own it takes money out of your wallet rather than putting it in. From a financial perspective the option that frees up the most money to…

Is there any room for the possibility that people are figuring out homeownership is a giant money pit, that one’s primary residence is not an investment, and that the associated lack of mobility and flexibility isn’t a financial plus? Anyone? Bueller?

Let’s say you park your car on a hill. You get out and suddenly your car starts rolling backwards because you’ve forgotten to use your parking brake. I sprint from where I am to try and help you. We somehow manage to get your car stopped safely.

“So you’re moaning that I am not taking on the role you wanted? Tough shit.”

The percentage of itemized tax returns falls off precipitously once the return’s AGI drops below six figures.

“The left whines”

True free market capitalism (what you’re describing) only exists in books. The fact that the status quo is what it is and it’s so pervasive among modern post-industrial economies provides pretty significant evidence of the fact that most people’s hardline economic principles tend to disappear in the face of potential …

Who takes the hit if GM is allowed to fail and everyone within its blast radius gets nailed? Oh that’s right ultimately it’s tax payers. The governments bought jobs because that was likely the least expensive option on the table.

The bailouts were nothing more than a relatively cheap solution to the potential/sudden devastation of a sector and the resulting unemployment. The ad portrays it as something else and that’s misleading at best. Tax payers didn’t provide that liquidity out of the goodness of their own hearts. They did it (in some…

“But it’s not a lot different than California’s tax base subsidizing Alabama’s residents.”

“plus they’re no substitute for a defined benefit plan for most workers”