Alice Gisa
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Kwa mjibu kitabu cha Robert Kiyosaki kile cha Rich Dad, Poor Dad hasa kuanzia ile page 68,juu ya ile story ya Robin Hood, ukihusanisha na hii sheria ya kodi ya 2016 baasi jikaze uisome hii sura afu chini wewe comment Rais wetu yuko kundi lipi kati ya Rich Dad au Poor Dad?
Na nukuu
I remember in school being told the story of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.
My schoolteacher thought it was a wonderful story of a romantic hero, a Kevin
Costner type, who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. My rich dad did not see Robin Hood as a hero. He called Robin Hood a crook.
Robin Hood may be long gone, but his followers live on. How often I still
hear people say, "Why don't the rich pay for it?" Or "The rich should pay more
in taxes and give it to the poor."
It is this idea of Robin Hood, or taking from the rich to give to the poor that has caused the most pain for the poor and the middle class. The reason the middle class is so heavily taxed is because of the Robin Hood ideal. The real reality is that the rich are not taxed. It's the middle class who pays for the poor, especially the educated upper-income middle class.
Again, to understand fully how things happen, we need to look at the historical perspective. We need to look at the history of taxes. Although my highly educated dad was an expert on the history of education, my rich dad fashioned himself as an expert on the history of taxes.
Rich dad explained to Mike and me that in England and America originally,
there were no taxes. Occasionally there were temporary taxes levied in order to
pay for wars. The king or the president would put the word out and ask everyone
to "chip in." Taxes were levied in Britain for the fight against Napoleon from 1799 to 1816, and in America taxes were levied to pay for the Civil War from
1861 to 1865.
In 1874, England made income tax a permanent levy on its citizens. In 1913,
an income tax became permanent in the United States with the adoption of the
16th Amendment to the Constitution. At one time, Americans were anti-tax. It had been the excessive tax on tea that led to the famous Tea Party in Boston Harbor, an incident that helped ignite the Revolutionary War. It took approximately 50 years in both England and '• the United States to sell the idea of a regular income tax. ;
What these historical dates fail to reveal is that both of these taxes
were initially levied against only the rich. It was this point that rich dad
wanted Mike and me to understand. He explained that the idea of taxes was made popular, and accepted by the majority, by telling the poor and the middle class that taxes were created only to punish the rich. This is how the masses voted for the law, and it became constitutionally legal. Although it was intended to punish the rich, in reality it wound up punishing the very people who voted for it, the poor and middle class. "Once government got a taste of money, the appetite grew," said rich dad. "Your dad and I are exactly opposite. He's a government bureaucrat, and I am a capitalist. We get paid, and our success is measured on opposite behaviors.
He gets paid to spend money and hire people. The more he spends and the more people he hires, the larger his organization becomes. In the government, the larger his organization, the more he is respected. On the other hand, within my organization, the fewer people I hire and the less money I spend, the more I am respected by my investors. That's why I don't like government people. They have different objectives from most business people. As the government grows, more and more tax dollars will be needed to support it."
My educated dad sincerely believed that government should help
people. He loved John F. Kennedy and especially the idea of the Peace
Corps. He loved the idea so much that both he and my mom worked for the Peace Corps training volunteers to go to Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. He always strived for additional grants and increases in his budget so he could
hire more people, both in his job with the Education Department and in the Peace Corps. That was his job.From the time I was about 10 years old, I would hear from my rich dad that government workers were a pack of lazy thieves, and from my poor dad I would hear how the rich were greedy crooks who should be made to pay more taxes. Both sides have valid points. It was difficult to go to work for one of the biggest capitalists in town and come home to a father who was a prominent government leader. It was not easy knowing who to believe.
Yet, when you study the history of taxes, an interesting perspective
emerges. As I said, the passage of taxes was only possible because the masses
believed in the Robin Hood theory of economics, which was to take from the rich and give to everyone else. The problem was that the government's appetite for money was so great that taxes soon needed to be levied on the middle class, and from there it kept "trickling down."
The rich, on the other hand, saw an opportunity. They do not play by the
same set of rules. As I've stated, the rich already knew about corporations,
which became popular in the days of sailing ships. The rich created the
corporation as a vehicle to limit their risk to the assets of each voyage. The
rich put their money into a corporation to finance the voyage. The corporation
would then hire a crew to sail to the New World to look for treasures.
If the ship was lost, the crew lost their lives, but the loss to the rich would be
limited only to the money they invested for that particular voyage. The diagram
that follows shows how the corporate structure sits outside your personal income
statement and balance sheet.
How the Rich Play the Game
Page 66-69
Mwisho wa kunukuu.
Na nukuu
I remember in school being told the story of Robin Hood and his Merry Men.
My schoolteacher thought it was a wonderful story of a romantic hero, a Kevin
Costner type, who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. My rich dad did not see Robin Hood as a hero. He called Robin Hood a crook.
Robin Hood may be long gone, but his followers live on. How often I still
hear people say, "Why don't the rich pay for it?" Or "The rich should pay more
in taxes and give it to the poor."
It is this idea of Robin Hood, or taking from the rich to give to the poor that has caused the most pain for the poor and the middle class. The reason the middle class is so heavily taxed is because of the Robin Hood ideal. The real reality is that the rich are not taxed. It's the middle class who pays for the poor, especially the educated upper-income middle class.
Again, to understand fully how things happen, we need to look at the historical perspective. We need to look at the history of taxes. Although my highly educated dad was an expert on the history of education, my rich dad fashioned himself as an expert on the history of taxes.
Rich dad explained to Mike and me that in England and America originally,
there were no taxes. Occasionally there were temporary taxes levied in order to
pay for wars. The king or the president would put the word out and ask everyone
to "chip in." Taxes were levied in Britain for the fight against Napoleon from 1799 to 1816, and in America taxes were levied to pay for the Civil War from
1861 to 1865.
In 1874, England made income tax a permanent levy on its citizens. In 1913,
an income tax became permanent in the United States with the adoption of the
16th Amendment to the Constitution. At one time, Americans were anti-tax. It had been the excessive tax on tea that led to the famous Tea Party in Boston Harbor, an incident that helped ignite the Revolutionary War. It took approximately 50 years in both England and '• the United States to sell the idea of a regular income tax. ;
What these historical dates fail to reveal is that both of these taxes
were initially levied against only the rich. It was this point that rich dad
wanted Mike and me to understand. He explained that the idea of taxes was made popular, and accepted by the majority, by telling the poor and the middle class that taxes were created only to punish the rich. This is how the masses voted for the law, and it became constitutionally legal. Although it was intended to punish the rich, in reality it wound up punishing the very people who voted for it, the poor and middle class. "Once government got a taste of money, the appetite grew," said rich dad. "Your dad and I are exactly opposite. He's a government bureaucrat, and I am a capitalist. We get paid, and our success is measured on opposite behaviors.
He gets paid to spend money and hire people. The more he spends and the more people he hires, the larger his organization becomes. In the government, the larger his organization, the more he is respected. On the other hand, within my organization, the fewer people I hire and the less money I spend, the more I am respected by my investors. That's why I don't like government people. They have different objectives from most business people. As the government grows, more and more tax dollars will be needed to support it."
My educated dad sincerely believed that government should help
people. He loved John F. Kennedy and especially the idea of the Peace
Corps. He loved the idea so much that both he and my mom worked for the Peace Corps training volunteers to go to Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. He always strived for additional grants and increases in his budget so he could
hire more people, both in his job with the Education Department and in the Peace Corps. That was his job.From the time I was about 10 years old, I would hear from my rich dad that government workers were a pack of lazy thieves, and from my poor dad I would hear how the rich were greedy crooks who should be made to pay more taxes. Both sides have valid points. It was difficult to go to work for one of the biggest capitalists in town and come home to a father who was a prominent government leader. It was not easy knowing who to believe.
Yet, when you study the history of taxes, an interesting perspective
emerges. As I said, the passage of taxes was only possible because the masses
believed in the Robin Hood theory of economics, which was to take from the rich and give to everyone else. The problem was that the government's appetite for money was so great that taxes soon needed to be levied on the middle class, and from there it kept "trickling down."
The rich, on the other hand, saw an opportunity. They do not play by the
same set of rules. As I've stated, the rich already knew about corporations,
which became popular in the days of sailing ships. The rich created the
corporation as a vehicle to limit their risk to the assets of each voyage. The
rich put their money into a corporation to finance the voyage. The corporation
would then hire a crew to sail to the New World to look for treasures.
If the ship was lost, the crew lost their lives, but the loss to the rich would be
limited only to the money they invested for that particular voyage. The diagram
that follows shows how the corporate structure sits outside your personal income
statement and balance sheet.
How the Rich Play the Game
Page 66-69
Mwisho wa kunukuu.
