I'm both lazy and vindictive. I also happen to believe in the power of setting a good example.

Don't you have any private debt collection agencies you could sell your payables to?

- You'd get some of the money (the agency won't ever pay 1:1 but getting shorted is better than getting shafted)
- The clients who refused to pay now get to deal with professional debt collectors who have all the (legal) muscle to extract their money from the debtor

Do that couple of times and then send the rest final notices with "before" and "after" documentation on what happens to those who try to screw you over.

I do nasty for sport.

Haha, yeah I just sent a few off to the solicitor to deal with today. Some I just can't do like that because some of the guys owing $ are honest working people like me stuck in a chain.

Oh btw, all this carry on has made me shift my balance of time a little more towards poker so I have room for a couple more uNL students. PM or AIM me if you want to discuss.

/Spam

Are we talking staking or something else?

it looks like my effective tax rate this year (not counting sales tax in CA at 8%), will be 44%.........

I coach uNL players and timewise 2-3 regular people usually keep me busy along with the occasional one off session but I'm planning to spend more time on poker for the next few months anyway.
I don't do stakes, just straight coaching

32% of the points needed for stox,
altho my session sucked ass, and a really big fat ass this pretty rocks

I was about to order that one but remembered I have already have one almost exactly like that.
So I ordered this:



Should arrive in a couple of weeks.

will you take sexual favours in exchange for sweat sessions? xx

hahahaha "mmmmmm pocket jacks"

Just to make you guys laugh, how bad can an image be on a table:


Full Tilt Poker $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players - View hand 28438
The Official 2+2 Hand Converter Powered By DeucesCracked.com

UTG+2: $25.00
MP1: $5.00
MP2: $12.00
CO: $18.85
BTN: $25.00
SB: $12.70
Hero (BB): $30.90
UTG: $58.45
UTG+1: $17.45

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is BB with A A
4 folds, MP2 calls $0.25, 2 folds, SB raises to $0.50, Hero raises to $3, 1 fold, SB calls $2.50

Flop: ($6.25) T 4 3 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $4.50, SB raises to $9.70 all in, Hero calls $5.20

Turn: ($25.65) J (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($25.65) A (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $25.65
SB shows K Q (a straight, Ace high)
Hero shows A A (three of a kind, Aces)
SB wins $24.40
(Rake: $1.25)

Whine whine whine. Admit it: deep down you didn't really want to be in the Obama administration.

For example?

What kinda kool aid you drinking there, Zenz?

Anyone who doesn't think society wouldn't have collapsed without FDR's work programs knows nothing about history. The only reason Social Security seems like a bad idea now is because advances in medical sciences which couldn't have been forseen at the time.

If you want to live in a truly free market economy, you should move to Somalia or Western Sudan and see such systems in action, imo.

Poverty porn?

LOL. Didn't mean to start a big political discussion...

Seriously? Advances in medical science can't be forseen?

Didn't you just mention something about people not understanding history?

what? sorry, ain't following you.

Isn't it lovely to pay double employment taxes, (employer and employee), and of course you're not eligible for unemployment if your business should happen to fail.

Hong Kong named world's freest economy

Flat Tax FTW.

Thank you Mr. Chigurh.

Sounds interesting but the link gives me a 404.

deep down? No I've been a McCain supporter for 12 years, actively worked on his campaign for him in the 2004 primaries (because I despised Bush).

With that said, I am perfectly fine with Obama being president, I think his leadership qualities make up for the fact he has never written any legislation, or never really present a coherent plan for anything during the campaign. Plus McCain became a real dick in the last 3 months of the election and became what he despises (a sleazy politician).

I like the choices Obama is making and I am a HUGE Geithner fan! I think he is the bomb. Of course I am probably a huge economist geek.

Well, golly, if the Heritage Foundation and Rupert Murdoch say it, it must be true! I mean -- where would we be now if Bush hadn't taken all their priceless economic advice?

Hong Kong has welfare and public works anyway. And all the land is owned by the government. How is that "free market"?

Weird. Works for me. Here's another one:

Hong Kong tops economic freedom chart again, US dips

I really don't wanna get deep into this economic discussion. I'm just a wage slave, and don't have some of the considerations some of you have as independent business owners. However, my current opinion is that anyone who regurgitates the standard Republican lines these days has no credibility whatsoever. We've just gone through 8 years of near-complete Republican control and we've gone from a good economy with a budget surplus to a total economic meltdown and trillion-dollar deficits. Huge military budgets + fighting a war + tax cuts = disaster. You can have anything you want, but you have to be willing to pay for it.

Yes, I know there were some Demos involved in decisions over the last 2 years . . . most of which got vetoed.

No offense to anyone in particular . . . it's a sore subject for me right now.

I don't advocate every aspect of their system and property rights are a bedrock of US society. But, I'd love to live under their tax structure.

Decided to get an AIM account after all. TDK feel free to add me if you need poker buddies. Same goes for the rest of you feel free to add me.

PokerPele

Throw in "*no deductions, loopholes, or exceptions", and I'm inclined to agree. No that its great or anything, but it wouldn't suck.

Well, I'd love to be the sole landlord of the most densely populated city on Earth. That the government doesn't need other forms of taxation (although there's a sort of renter's tax on top of the lease agreements) isn't shocking. This site makes a good breakdown of how this is just tricky bookkeeping to make this out to be as "free" as certain parties suggest.