I would also favour a flat tax system. We all pay the same and the richer don’t try to evade tax because they have to pay three times more than the poor.
Also, money that isn’t taken away directly by the taxman is spent by individuals on the market increasing, activities, sales, jobs, sales. This in turn creates more return to the taxman, but increased.
I have no problem with him buying a jet or being wealthy. But I do have a problem with him being a scientologist shill taking money from unsuspecting people. But perhaps that’s a completely different discussion. 
AdamFrisch wrote:
But I do have a problem with him being a scientologist
with you 100%
Yes, though this is common. That bunch target wealthy and influential people – same as the Freemasons do, and for the same reasons. However, while getting people like this one and Tom Cruise does no harm, they also very successfully target the many young people who are “lost” and that’s where they do a lot of damage.
Silvaire wrote:
It was made for the UK market where selling crude caricatures of wealthy people, very much including Americans, makes money.
In that case it seems to reach the goal the guy is after, exposing probably unsuspecting business people as rich a$$holes they are probably not. I must say, in that clip, the interviewer came across to me as the much more unlikable guy.
Silvaire wrote:
There are a few Americans who appreciate these kind of self promoting blowhards, but most Americans are not in that category.
Well, the guy in this clip has sold quite a few books to mostly Americans to make it to the bestseller list, so apparently quite a few people are interested in what he has to say, even if it is selling a pipe dream in most cases. But then, so are cookbooks . Hardly ever can one achieve the results promoted in a “how to” book to the same level but it is nice dreaming about it. That goes for the perfect baked cheese cake as much as for making a million 
. But it sells books. I hear his are a lot better than a certain book about how to make a deal by the sitting president…
Peter wrote:
He does what everybody does, just with different numbers, and is willing to be on TV and admit it, while winding up the audience nicelyThe law requires you to pay the tax due under the law.
+1
Reading the rest of the thread he seems to be an investor (in property) and also he is writing books about his success. His “online life” is obviously very good PR for his books: “read my books, and you can live like I do”.
Morally he is an a$$ hole of course, if by nothing else than the size of the numbers, and the way he is behaving IMO. A perfect victim of looting in the “good old days” and no one would be sorry.
The old trick of:
Pay me $5 and I will tell you how to become rich.
Answer: Ask other people to pay you $5 to tell them how to become rich.
