I think it might be better to live a Simple Life, than an American Life?

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After all I have seen in the business world, buying and selling homes, going though various investments, after dealing the IRS at times, I sometimes think it's better to be minimally successful, than try to make all the money I can, or worse become too successful such as is the American Dream.

Just make just enough a money to get by, keep only enough savings for an emergency, and not own anything but maybe a very cheap, and little home that a Taco Bell salary could maintain.

Instead of paying in all kinds of taxes, and dealing with CPA's and attorneys, try to hit a point where you can take entitlements from the government, especially seeing it looks like health care will be made available to the poor.

So the goal is to live on very little, and try to produce as little as possible. I suppose I might be under the spell of how to live a simpler life:
 
You are soooo right in many ways. The more money you make, the more the government will take off you in the form of taxes and rates.

I suppose it is the same over there as it is here in the UK. Here we have thousands of people who have rarely (or never) worked. They have nothing and live completely on social security (which of course is paid for by all those hard-working thrifty savers - who in fact work half their lives to pay the taxes to keep these non-workers).
I have often said, would any of us choose to work long hours and often overtime, to go round to the non-worker next door on payday, and hand him half our wages!? But this, in effect, is what we are doing.
The bottom line is that, if we can`t get a job, and can`t afford to buy or rent a house, and we never save for a rainy day or for our old age pension, and if we are also ill or appear so - the government (the taxpayer) will look after us, quite often for the rest of our lives.

So who is the fool, and who is the clever one in all this?
 
You are soooo right in many ways. The more money you make, the more the government will take off you in the form of taxes and rates.

I suppose it is the same over there as it is here in the UK. Here we have thousands of people who have rarely (or never) worked. They have nothing and live completely on social security (which of course is paid for by all those hard-working thrifty savers - who in fact work half their lives to pay the taxes to keep these non-workers).
I have often said, would any of us choose to work long hours and often overtime, to go round to the non-worker next door on payday, and hand him half our wages!? But this, in effect, is what we are doing.
The bottom line is that, if we can`t get a job, and can`t afford to buy or rent a house, and we never save for a rainy day or for our old age pension, and if we are also ill or appear so - the government (the taxpayer) will look after us, quite often for the rest of our lives.

So who is the fool, and who is the clever one in all this?
 
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