The Pocket Idiot's Guide to the Fairtax

The Pocket Idiot's Guide to the Fairtax
Author: Ken Clark, CFP
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2010-02-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101195657

Keeping your job is job one. In recent years, the FairTax has gained a lot of attention, but for the vast majority of Americans, there's a sense that there's still too little unbiased information upon which to make an informed decision. The Pocket Idiot's Guide™ to the FairTax seeks to change that. In this book, readers get answers to all the questions they have about the FairTax, including: • What it is, how it's calculated, and who pays what • Comparisons with other tax systems • Economic and political effects of the FairTax • Common misconceptions • What supporters and opponents have to say • Moral issues associated with the FairTax • Author is a certified financial planner

The Pocket Idiot's Guide to the FairTax

The Pocket Idiot's Guide to the FairTax
Author: Ken Clark
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781592579563

Discusses the basics of the fair tax including how it works, ethical issues involved, and effects on politics and the economy; examines effects of the fair tax on families of different economic statuses.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Boosting Your Financial IQ

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Boosting Your Financial IQ
Author: Ken Clark, CFP
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2009-12-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101150742

It isn't too late to recoup! Today, with investments worth only a fraction of what they were a year ago, people need to be smarter about their finances. This book is here to level the playing field, explaining the games that are played, and the details that can confuse anyone when they depend on the false assumptions the money people are encouraging them to believe. ?How banks and credit card companies profit from their customers ?Your 401(k) and retirement plans - not all nest eggs are created equal ?Buying and selling a home - the Mortgage Meltdown 101 ?Health care, college tuition, car purchase and maintenance, and life insurance - and a lot of fine print to read!

The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide to Understanding Health Care Reform

The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide to Understanding Health Care Reform
Author: Lita Epstein
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101463120

You're aware of the controversy surrounding the Healthcare Reform Bill, but the true impact of the bill escapes you. After thousands of pages, almost as many amendments, and dizzying perspectives from dozens of pundits, you're more confused than ever on how the Healthcare Reform Bill will directly affect you.This book can help! In clear, understandable terms, this guide walks you through all of the ways the reform will affect the issues that matter most to you, including Medicare, hospital stays, medical care for the uninsured, and more.

The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide to Understanding the Finance Reform Bill

The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide to Understanding the Finance Reform Bill
Author: Lita Epstein
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2010-12-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101463112

With The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide® to Understanding the Finance Reform Bill, learn the overview of the bill as well as how it impacts the day-to-day structure of credit cards, mortgages, and more!

The Fair Tax Book

The Fair Tax Book
Author: Neal Boortz
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2009-03-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0061742643

Wouldn’t you love to abolish the IRS . . .Keep all the money in your paycheck . . .Pay taxes on what you spend, not what you earn . . .And eliminate all the fraud, hassle, and waste of our current system? Then the FairTax is for you. In the face of the outlandish American tax burden, talk-radio firebrand Neal Boortz and Congressman John Linder are leading the charge to phase out our current, unfair system and enact the FairTax Plan-replacing the federal income tax and withholding system with a simple 23 percent retail sales tax. This dramatic revision of the current system, which would eliminate the reviled IRS, has already caught fire in the American heartland, with more than 600,000 taxpayers signing on in support of the plan. As Boortz and Linder reveal in this first book on the FairTax, this radical but eminently sensible plan would end the annual national nightmare of filing income tax returns, while at the same time enlarging the federal tax base by collecting sales tax from every retail consumer in the country. The FairTax, they argue, would transform the fearsome bureaucracy of the IRS into a more transparent, accountable—and equitable—tax collection system. Endorsed by scores of leading economists—and supported by a huge and growing grassroots movement—the FairTax Plan could revolutionize the way America pays for itself.

The Joy of Tax

The Joy of Tax
Author: Richard Murphy
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2016-06-15
Genre: Taxation
ISBN: 0552171611

'A brief but crucially important book' Marcus Chown In The Joy of Tax, tax campaigner Richard Murphy challenges almost every idea you have about tax. For him, tax is fundamentally about the ideas that shape the sort of society we want to live in, not technicalities. His intention is to demonstrate that there is indeed a joy in tax, and by embracing it we can create a fairer society and change the world for the better. Tax has been a feature of human society for a very long time. Almost no one gives tax a good press even though, as Richard Murphy argues, it has been fundamental to the development of democracy the world over. Whilst we may not like tax very much, in contrast it is clear that we really do like the public services which governments provide. So much so, in fact, that for most of the last 300 years, people have been more than happy for governments to run deficits by spending more than they raise in taxation. 2008 apparently changed all that. The issues of debt, deficits, cuts and austerity have dominated the political agenda ever since. Virtually every aspect of the government's finances and how to rearrange them in the forlorn hope of balancing the books has been discussed in great detail. Despite that, there has been almost no real discussion during this period about what tax is for and how it contributes to the creation of the society we aspire to.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Out of Debt

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Out of Debt
Author: Ken Clark, CFP
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2009-02-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101022167

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul? The American economy is dragging, with unemployment rates rising and consumer debt hitting $2.5 trillion. Many people are in deep and need help. Here, a Certified Financial Planner explains the mathematics of debt; strategies to deal with credit card, mortgage, student, and other loans; why debt consolidation and taking loans from a 401(k) can lead to problems; truths about bankruptcy; and how to use debt while eliminating it. • Includes essential resources and websites, sample letters and forms, loan forgiveness programs, bankruptcy resources • Author a Certified Financial Planner • Covers every kind of debt, mortgages to credit cards to student loans • National credit card debt is growing exponentially

Whose Keeper?

Whose Keeper?
Author: Alan Wolfe
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2022-03-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0520356470

Whose Keeper? is a profound and creative treatise on modernity and its challenge to social science. Alan Wolfe argues that modern liberal democracies, such as the United States and Scandinavia, have broken with traditional sources of mortality and instead have relied upon economic and political frameworks to define their obligations to one another. Wolfe calls for reinvigorating a sense of community and thus a sense of obligation to the larger society. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Liberty Defined

Liberty Defined
Author: Ron Paul
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2011-04-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1455504432

In Liberty Defined, congressman and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with his most provocative, comprehensive, and compelling arguments for personal freedom to date. The term "Liberty" is so commonly used in our country that it has become a mere cliche. But do we know what it means? What it promises? How it factors into our daily lives? And most importantly, can we recognize tyranny when it is sold to us disguised as a form of liberty? Dr. Paul writes that to believe in liberty is not to believe in any particular social and economic outcome. It is to trust in the spontaneous order that emerges when the state does not intervene in human volition and human cooperation. It permits people to work out their problems for themselves, build lives for themselves, take risks and accept responsibility for the results, and make their own decisions. It is the seed of America. This is a comprehensive guide to Dr. Paul's position on fifty of the most important issues of our times, from Abortion to Zionism. Accessible, easy to digest, and fearless in its discussion of controversial topics, Liberty Defined sheds new light on a word that is losing its shape.