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by Richard Chapo
Many a guru has opined on the keys to business success. While everyone has an opinion, I am going to focus on a more practical step you can take that will make a big difference.
So, what is this magical step? It is to find a good accountant. Not exactly what you were expecting, eh? Well, it is true. A good accountant can save you a ton of money. A decent accountant can save you a bit of money. Not having any accountant can end up costing you a bundle.
So, what is a “good” accountant? To give you an answer, we must first discuss the role you need the accountant to take. Any accountant can prepare a tax return. That is not what we are talking about in this article. There are really two types of accountants – reactive and proactive. Proactive accountants are what you are looking for to help you.
A proactive accountant is one who helps you ahead of time. This person sits down with you at the beginning of each year. They discuss your business and personal life and how the year is going to shape up. The accountant will then suggest steps you can take to minimize your taxes and grow your money. Just as importantly, they will also let you know if any of your planned steps don’t make sense from a tax perspective and will offer alternatives. This one meeting will save you tens of thousands of dollars over the years. In fact, you would be wise to have a meeting every quarter.
Whether you like it or not, taxes are going to be a big issue for your business. A proactive accountant should be a vital member of your team. If you are going to make any big moves, you need to give him or her a call. Your accountant can also help you arrange your business finances in a manner that is going to help your cash flow so you can survive lean times.
So, when should you start looking for such an accountant? Yesterday! The first step in starting a business will necessarily involve how it is classified for tax purposes. This is a big decision and your accountant can provide you with the best solution for your particular situation. Ah, but can you afford to kick out money for an accountant early on? Yes. You will save a bunch of money by doing so and can deduct their fees.
Richard A. Chapo is with SanDiegoBusinessLawFirm.com - providing incorporate in California. Richard Chapo may be contacted at http://www.sandiegobusinesslawfirm.com
Prohibition employs violent criminals who do far more damage to society than the prohibited item itself. The century-old, failed federal and state prohibition of drugs has taken nearly a century to produce the level of organized crime that existed after only just over a decade of alcohol prohibition.
Alcohol prohibition took the legal alcohol out of the liquor stores and the demand for it then resulted in an immediate and powerful black-market – run by organized criminals. Alcohol prohibition turned violent 2-bit thugs like Al Capone into ruthless and POWERFUL organized criminal MILLIONAIRES! Money is POWER! http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-157.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/miami/peopleevents/pande06.html
The powerful organized criminals then ran their towns by bribing some and killing others.
The government officials had only 2 choices: 1. Accept the bribes and live a fancy life or 2. Die from lead poisoning.
In Central and South America today, we have entire countries in chaos due to the powerful drug cartels employed and empowered by US drug prohibition. Government officials are told that they can either choose “Plata or Plomo” and that means “Silver or Lead”. Bribes or Lead Poisoning from multiple gun shots!
Some entire Law Enforcement agencies there are bought and paid for by the lucrative drug profits resulting from prohibition. Drug Laws subvert democracy in these countries and now drug prohibition is fueling terrorism!
Back here in the US, in nearly every major city in the US, law enforcement officers have been found to have been corrupted by drug profits and now our prosecutors are dying as well! How many parallels do we need to see prohibition for what it is?
Drugs are not a crime unless the user violates the rights of someone! Addiction at best is a medical problem and it is not the government’s job to protect us from ourselves! It also shows the injustice when Rush Limbaugh confessed to being part of a felony conspiracy to purchase illegal drugs and hasn't seen a day in jail when any ordinary citizen would have been imprisoned IMMEDIATLY!
SOLUTION: All we have to do to put these powerful cartels and terrorists out of the profitable drug business is to put drugs back in the drugs stores! Here in the United States we can lower crime by 70% by simply putting drugs back in the drug stores since 70% of crime is drug “prohibition” related. (That’s 7 out of every 10 crimes!)
You may not think that drugs should be legal but which is worse, “Drug addiction or employing violent criminals and terrorists through prohibition?”
We have locked up people (our fellow Americans) for drugs and denied them their rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness because of simple drug possession. They had their rights violated but they had not violated the rights of anyone else! That defeats the very purpose of the US Constitution (The Supreme Law of this Land). The purpose of the Constitution is spelled out in Constitutional law for Police and it states and I quote “The constitution’s of the original thirteen states were written during a period in history when the people were keenly aware of their rights and of the possibility that a strong government might deprive them of these rights. The Constitution of the United States, which was written only a few years after the Declaration of Independence, was framed by men who had lived during a period of strict control and later during a period of too little control. As a result it was the intention of these dedicated men that the new government established under the United States Constitution protect both the rights of the individual and the rights of society.” PREFACE 1 277 US 438 (1928). See http://FederalismRevealed.tripod.com for more information.
Drug laws protect neither the rights of the individual nor society by employing criminals and terrorists! These laws actually prevent domestic tranquility and subvert law enforcement and democracy! These laws criminalize citizens who have not violated the rights of anyone. These laws unnecessarily endanger the community, for example, when police charge into schools with guns dawn and pointed! No one’s rights were endangered until the police showed up! The children were VICTIMIZED by the police all to scare off the illegal drugs that ravage our schools because they are not in the drug stores!
As a direct result of prohibition, we have turned the land of the free into the land of the imprisoned because we have more of our citizens incarcerated than Russia and China. We have overcrowded our courts, jails and prisons resulting in over crowding and often the release of VIOLENT OFFENDERS who actually endanger the public!
We have over burdened our prosecutors and public defenders with drug laws and as a result it is impossible to get a fair trial unless you have money in this country.
We have tied up law enforcement unnecessarily because 7 out of every 10 crimes (70%) could be prevented by putting drugs back in the drug stores.
Moreover, the poor and the youth have been victimized the most by prohibition because the poor areas are the new distribution market or “Drug Stores” since the poor are desperate enough to stand and sell on the street corner – in the open air drug market. The buyers drive through and the police see the transactions and have to go into the poor areas to shut down these operations.
This puts the police at odds with the poor community and most of those arrested are the youth of that community. It is no wonder so many Black and Hispanic youth are gangsters when they are criminalized from an early age by prohibition and have no other choice! You can’t even get a job once branded a felon. Not a legal job anyway. See http://www.cafeshops.com/TheSystem
Money makes the world go around - motivating people to do things - and prohibition makes drugs worth their weight in GOLD! The poor and the youth have full access to the gold mine and they end up imprisoned as a result. Do the Math for your self and see why the drug trade is thriving after a century of prohibition and billions of US TAX dollars! http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/math.html
Meanwhile, the wealthy deal their drugs behind closed doors and out of the sight and reach of the police! Many of the law enforcement community then want the Constitution to take a back seat to the whims of law enforcement and that shows that they are willing to disobey their oath to the Constitution in order to have a prosperous and successful career!
Furthermore, not only are the police easily corrupted due to drug prohibition profits but they are also forced to commit felonies when they defeat the very purpose of the Constitution by violating the rights of those who have not violated the rights of anyone else. Not enforcing drugs laws is a lesser crime and a defense it seems!
Visit my web site and see drugs when they were in the drug stores (Legal and Regulated), out of the hands of criminals, terrorists and our youth – who can get drugs easier today than alcohol. You can also find links to law enforcement agencies and even religious organizations who oppose drug prohibition. http://www.cafeshops.com/DrugProhibition
And PLEASE read “Drug Crazy” http://www.DrugCrazy.com Or read “America’s Longest War” in your public library. It is our duty as Americans!
P.S. I said that the prosecutor’s murder is likely drug prohibition related, even though I have not seen the evidence, because 70% of crimes are drug “prohibition” related - so there is a 70% chance that this crime is drug prohibition related!
Search these pages for the number 70 (70%) using “find”, which is located under “edit”, likely at the top of you screen and you will find that they all confirm that over 70% of crime in their area is drug related (prohibition).
http://www.timessw.com/display.asp?SID=2 http://www.herefordconservatives.com/index.php?sectionid=3&pagenumber=113 http://www.inq7.net/met/2003/may/22/met_5-1.htm http://www.manchester.gov.uk/crime/audit/drug.htm http://www.scotland.gov.uk/pages/news/2003/10/p_SEJD335.aspx http://www.sa.liberal.org.au/hamilton-smith/default.asp?Menu=drugs http://www.grampian.police.uk/latest-info/archive/buy-crime.htm
Who profits from drugs? (MOTIVES for continuing the un-winnable war on drug users) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/archive/whoprofits.html
History of Drugs: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/buyers/socialhistory.html
Written: 06Dec2003
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by Travis Patriot
Fox News did a special on the Woman’s Prison population (21Sept2003) and how it is the fastest growing segment of the population. They reported how mandatory minimums have resulted in more women going to prison due to the hands of judges being tied by the mandatory minimums.
They forgot to mention however that over half of the woman in prison are in for drug related offenses and that they wouldn’t be there if drugs were in the drug stores (legal and regulated like alcohol) rather than in the streets employing criminals (like alcohol did).
They also failed to mention that the mandatory minimums are the result of drug prohibition. Drug possessors do more time than violent criminals! Drug possessors do time while the violent (real threats to society) get shorter sentences and even get out (back on the streets endangering society) due to over crowding due to prohibition!
Consider this; the job of the government is to preserve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness by protecting our rights (obeying the Constitution which protects us from them). In the drug war, many drug possessors violate the rights of no one yet the government does violate their rights when imprisoning them for not violating anyone’s rights what so ever! Victimless Crime? How can it be a crime when there is no victim?
Desperate people do desperate things and drug prohibition (a government law) makes drugs illegal and worth their weight in gold just as alcohol prohibition did alcohol! The open air drug black markets are in the poor areas because the people there are desperate enough to stand on the corner while the big dealers are safe in the wealthy neighborhoods!
This is one reason why some law enforcement officers say that civil liberties must take a back seat to the drug war! That means that they are saying that their loyalty to the Constitution has taken a back seat to the government (their careers). These law enforcement officers have decided that they are loyal to their jobs and not to protecting the rights of the people. They are traitors and felons when they violate or even conspire to violate the Constitution, in my opinion.
The bottom line is that the woman’s prison population is the direct result of a century old, failed government law called prohibition! A federal power that is not granted by the Constitution and since the federal government is limited to those powers specifically defined in the Constitution, it is unconstitutional (unlawful). See the 10th Amendment and read the Lust for Power in Federalism Revealed for free!
Moreover, those sworn to uphold the Constitution are committing a felony when they conspire to violate the Constitution in any way including the unlawful (unwarranted) search of property for drugs. Aiding the government in enforcing laws that violate the rights of the people when those people are not violating the rights of anyone is a crime.
Thank you.
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