Rick Rule: Why doesn’t the Cost of Living Does include Taxes?

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the second thing and this is astonishing
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to me
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is that the fed’s estimate of the cost
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of living doesn’t
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include tax while
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government expenditures are over 40
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percent of gdp
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the idea that your cost of living
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doesn’t include tax
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i suspect daniella that would be okay
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with you if you didn’t have to pay the
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tax
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but given that you do a calculation of
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cost of living that doesn’t include tax
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seems very odd to me i reck i understand
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that government probably shouldn’t be
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considered to be a consumer good
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unfortunately it’s a good which you are
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forced to consume and fund
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and people when they are thinking about
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the impact of their savings
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and their uh earned income relative to
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their purchasing power
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need to think about inflation very
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differently
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than a slavish reliance on the cpi oh
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that is so well said and i’m happy you
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brought up the point about uh
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tax a rick a real good one um so you
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know
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it seems like we’re living in this world
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of you know fake earnings fake gdp
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fake interest rates and super high
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valuations
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um the feds in a corner
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i think the fed isn’t a corner uh i i
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think
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i think they’re there by popular demand
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when i see what the fed does it reminds
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me of an old
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pogo cartoon from my youth where pogo is
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in the swamp
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and he says i have met the enemy and he
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is us

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