[DeTomaso] NPC - Investments

gow2 at rc-tech.net gow2 at rc-tech.net
Mon Jun 25 16:20:29 EDT 2012


If you were not spending time on a Pantera, you have to subtract the
amount of money you would have spent on things such a golf. That money
would have been spent whether you played golf or played with cars. At
least with cars, you get to keep some of what you put in it.

> My pantera has more than doubled in value.
>
> Of course I bought it in 1981 and have spent 3 or 4 times the value
>
> Does that count as a good investment?
>
> To me a pantera is a toy for men and like all toys you buy and play with
> them without thinking of it as an investment.
>
> Rich
> ---- gow2 at rc-tech.net wrote:
>> In a summary of my post, the govenment's effort to move toward taking
>> not
>> just income but the wealth of people, this actually supported keeping or
>> buying a Pantera vs traditional monetary investments. It does not
>> however
>> bode well for companies needing investments.
>>
>>
>> >
>> > I added the "NPC" in front of investments, because this is going to
>> get
>> > out of hand.  I was talking to a friend this weekend and to summarize:
>>  If
>> > the government is going to take money from me to pay other people to
>> > (trying to be nice: to be shirkers to the 200 year old American ethic)
>> > "freeload" then there should be a compromise.  The government needs to
>> do
>> > something to shrink that class of people.  Legalizing abortion is a
>> good
>> > example.  Or, pay them $50,000.00 to be sterilized, etc.  I'm reading
>> an
>> > excellent book about the 1% class in America, they also refer to them
>> as
>> > those who live in the super-zips:  COMING APART, by Charles Murray.
>> > ---Bill Lewis
>> >
>> >> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:10:53 -0500
>> >> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Investments
>> >> From: gow2 at rc-tech.net
>> >> To: lotus0005 at hotmail.com
>> >> CC: detomaso at realbig.com
>> >>
>> >> There is a push in the direction of our government to not only tax
>> your
>> >> income but to tax what you have.
>> >>
>> >> I know some wealthy people who continue to move many of their
>> holdings
>> >> into things which are difficult to track or value by the government.
>> >> Cars,
>> >> exotic paintings, art, are examples. It is easy for the government to
>> >> see
>> >> what you own in stock holdings. It is difficult for them to calculate
>> >> your
>> >> worth on items which are not summed up with numbers.
>> >
>>
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