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Episode-417- Reducing Your Tax Footprint

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Modern Survival| 12 Comments
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I have grown weary of the term “carbon footprint”, it drives me nuts that ever TV show, article, online video or blog post about energy independence has to use the dreaded term.  So I figured today we could talk about the useful reduction of a real footprint that is to large for most of us, the dreaded tax footprint.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • What is a tax footprint – how do you calculate one
  • What taxes do we pay other than income, social security and medicare
  • What are some of the hidden taxes we pay with out even realizing it
  • Following a tax payer for a day, how much taxation does he create
  • Ways to reduce your tax foot print
    • Take ever legal deduction, create deductions
    • Run a small business (two edges to the sword)
    • Install alternative energy
    • Barter when ever you can
    • Grow your own food
    • Buy from local growers (pay cash or barter)
    • Brew beer, make wine, grow tobacco
    • Drive a primary vehicle that is highly fuel efficient
    • Camp when you travel
    • Make sure to file homestead exemptions
    • Buy rural land as an investment with low property tax
    • Fight your properties assessed value
    • Reload ammunition
    • Cast bullets
    • Invest in metal with small quantity cash buys
    • Convert cash into long term assets
    • Understand the concept of  “cash flows = tax grows”
    • Ask two questions before you spend each dollar

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Episode-414- Jack on the Baldy and the Blonde Show

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Modern Survival| 3 Comments
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Well even though I am on the road today I do have a show for you today.  Today I am playing a rebroadcast of the Baldy and the Blonde Show from WGSO 990AM in New Orleans, LA.

They gave me a great interview discussing the first five tenents of the Modern Survival Philosophy and Modern Survivalism as a method of early retirement.

Please Note – There may not be a show every day this week because I will be traveling working on the next edition of the martial arts DVD series of Ballistic Striking – With Val Riazanov

I really recommend checking out Baldy and the Blonde’s website and you may even want to listen to the entire show from the date of my interview.  They covered a new Senate bill

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Episode-413- Listener Feedback 4-5-10

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Modern Survival| 17 Comments
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Well I am off to visit the folks at Black Belt Magazine (listen to today’s show for details) and may not have a show for you every day this week.  I did get up at 0430 to be sure to get today’s done before boarding the plane though.

Please Note – There may not be a show every day this week because I will be traveling working on the next edition of the martial arts DVD series of Ballistic Striking – With Val Riazanov

Join me today as we discuss…

  • Will the dollar enter a death spiral
  • The search engine that might know too much about you
  • Keys to successful container gardening with tomatoes
  • Vitamix – deal or dud?
  • Thoughts on unimproved land
  • How to use heavy equipment without damaging landscapes
  • Raised beds and chemical leach from wood finishes
  • A listener from Hemet, California explains the impact of the housing crash
  • Permaculture on small yards
  • JP Morgans commits silver fraud, no one seems to care, YET!

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Episode-412- The False Recovery is Beginning

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Modern Survival| 22 Comments
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Notice I did not say the recession is ending but that the false recovery is beginning.  I have been talking about this even for about 18 months now before the crash was even fully realized.  Today we examine the factors in the US and around the world that are going to lead to a raging recovery with a bigger crash that ever on the other side.

Join Me Today as We Discuss…

  • A special deal for the Members Support Brigade – Don’t skip house keeping today
  • A special contest from the Berkey Guy – Again don’t skip house keeping today
  • Response by local governments to the recession, write more traffic tickets
  • How government handles a short fall in revenue – send someone else the bill
  • How better fuel economy will lead to a national toll road system
  • The most new jobs in three years were added in March 2010 (note my side comment about the census)
  • The Wall Street Journal calls 162K jobs in March 54K jobs a month for Quarter 1 – Why?
  • US stocks rise for 5 strait weeks – why it isn’t that big of a deal
  • China pisses off salt mining women in Africa
  • China need for “New African Colonialism”
  • The roles of “Carbon Trading” and “Heath Care” in restarting “the casino”
  • What you can do to ensure your future no matter what happens
  • When the recovery begins remember your promise to yourself of “never again”

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Episode-369- The Cancer and Slavery of Debt

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Modern Survival| 24 Comments
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Today we back up and take a deeper look at the topic of debt and how it both destroys lives in good times and bad.  Debt is a cancer that is destroying America.  We have been sold a false dream, a false dream that robs the true dream of America’s legacy of freedom.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • The basic rules of survival
  • The false dream of debt vs the real dream that is America
  • Why debt really is cancer and why it will make you act in fear
  • How debt leads to bigger government
  • Why financial management and debt elimination cannot be separated from survivalism
  • The cost of debt must be measured in time, not dollars for the horror to become evident
  • The only way to eliminate debt
  • Why people in debt out spend people who are debt free
  • Why you must at least start eliminating debt if you want to be a modern survivalist
  • The main way to be a survivor is to reduce dependence
  • Inflation punishes savers, save anyway
  • We are forced into risk, debt makes that worse
  • The solution is in your hands

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Episode-353- Listener Feedback 1-11-01

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Modern Survival| 15 Comments
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Today I am back from the BOL with a listener feedback show.  Today we discuss wasp spray for self defense, rifle calibers for deer hunting, the global population, testing your preps and more.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • Is wasp spray “recommended” as a self defense tool
  • Lessons from an earthquake
  • 7 Degrees at the BOL and no electricity (our recent “vacation”)
  • How to “test your preps” before nature does it for you
  • Is an AR15 with the 223 a good deer rifle (no and no)
  • Why did I choose to have one child, does that really effect anyone else
  • Creative ways to find pre 64 coins for less money then a shop
  • Gardening in Las Vegas and other desert environments
  • Saving money for college, don’t save money for your child’s life, let them choose
  • The limitations of economic knowledge
  • Good books and resources to learn about permaculture and gardening
  • Taking our planet back, starts with taking our nation back

Resources for today’s show…

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Episode-349- Listener Feedback and Events for 1-5-09

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Modern Survival| 11 Comments
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Today we do another feedback show with a bit of a change up, I also include a blog post from a fellow preppers blog, a news article, a story from the great north and an amazing email about TSP’s impact in Iraq. In fact the letter from Iraq is so amazing I was only able to read part of it on the air so I posted it so you could read it in full (with a few edits) on our forum.

Tune in today to hear…

  • Soup is for the prepper – cool item from Safecastle
  • The TSP Iraqi audience
  • Money market funds are no longer the safe investment they once were
  • A tale of one family and a big winter storm
  • Thoughts on the top bar beehive design
  • Great blog post (6 Reasons You Won’t Survive)
  • Dave Canterbury’s Slingbow and update on his new show on Discovery
  • Is a good gun a hedge against inflation
  • Is sterling silver flatware and similar items a good silver “investment”
  • Can the government prevent you from growing food from a 1930s era law

Resources for today’s show…

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Episode-341- Listener Feedback 12-21-09

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Modern Survival| 9 Comments
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Back on another Monday with another round of questions.  Many of them are centered on land and land purchases today, a bit on libertarian politics at the end, some stuff on solar power during a SHTF, a bit on HSA’s and a report in from the North East on the big snow storm and its’ impact.

Tune in today to hear…

  • What is vanishing from store shelves in the North East, it ain’t food
  • What is an HSA, how do they work, why aren’t they more popular
  • How do you evaluate pricing on a large parcel of land
  • If the SHTF what will we do for our solar systems once our batteries run out
  • Would I buy land bordered on three sides by others who have not built yet
  • Can you use an IRA to buy land, what are the advantages and disadvantages
  • If the constitution applies to humans, not just Americans how does that effect the use of military force

Resources for today’s show…

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Episode-332- Seven Bad Pieces of Financial Advice

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Modern Survival| 1 Comment
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Join me today as we discuss 7 pieces of career, lifestyle and financial advice that most people simply assume is good advice because “everybody says so”.  Much of this advice isn’t exactly wrong, it just doesn’t work in the one size fits all way it is handed out by the semi informed and countless marketing efforts.

Join in today as we discuss advice such as…

  • Due to inflation and wage increases debtors do better then savers
  • Wealthy people lease cars instead of buying them, you should too
  • Going to college is for everyone and guarantees better earnings then not going
  • Once you have a 90 day cash fund put all other savings into a retirement account
  • Buying mutual funds diversifies your investments by investing in many companies and mutual funds are run by experts who actively act to maximize profits and reduce risk
  • Due to __________ put all your money into ___________
  • Find the job that pays the highest wage you can get

Resources for today’s show…

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Episode-322- The True Wealth of Land Ownership

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Modern Survival| 3 Comments
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Today we discuss another tenet of modern survival philosophy, that of “owning land it true wealth”.  My view is that many simply do not truly understand what that means and how special it is that the U.S. still has and was built on the right to own private property, for all, not just “nobles”.

Tune in today as we discuss…

  • How private property in America was seen vs. the feudal system that was in place in much of the world all the way up to and in some cases past 1900
  • It was land that brought early settlers to America
  • Why land is the real “store of value” for all time far more so then gold, etc.
  • The attack on land ownership and why governments love cities and suburbs
  • The Ag Zoning trap and how it kills small farms and creates mega commerical farming that destroys land
  • Why you should own land out of the city limits and own more then one piece
  • The value of livestock even just a few smaller animals
  • What owning your lands production means
  • How to use land to build a local barter economy
  • Bartering production for skills and learning skills so we don’t loose them to the ravages of time
  • Learning to do more with smaller tracts of land to truly beat the system
  • How to make it happen and become a land owner

Resources for today’s show…

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show.  Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

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