A REAL POKE IN THE NOSE!
ANITA: I'm about to criticize your import-export biz page, see? For how the broke & down-hearted would read it. OK. in my opinion, the mercantilism and Bazaar Folklorico pages need updating. Cottage industry is a bulls-eye target for the IRS for the last decade so I wouldn't expect to make a fortune there. They can track you, lady! Or anyone you advise to go into a cottage industry.
Since the invention of the UPC code, nobody can sell 1 unit of
anything
without owing city and state taxes that they collected for it. Then
income tax
also, paid by vendor. Two kinds of taxes. NO WAY TO ESCAPE it
aside from the FELONY of not
writing up the sale with a SALES SLIP. And not writing up your income
every year!
YEAH well, honey, that was my thought! Write up
half the sales, write up half the income.
fudge with your profits. FOLLOW THE GUERILLA
slithering through THE GRASS MODE.
1.) EARN ALL your workweek CASH off the books, even in your 40 hour a week job. Then, take your savings and start a small cottage industry also off the books. When it gets big, then go legal.
2.) CONFIDE the fact that you work off the books and don't pay taxes on the income in your 5 day a week job to only one person: the boss. First time you meet the guy you say "it's off the books or I don't work. He's not going to report you. Earn some money. You're going to need money to start your own biz!
3.) Never tell a friend something you believe they CAN know as they are a total friend -- that you wouldn't want them to know if they were your worst enemy! Me? I don't follow that rule. I consider my readers my friends, I tell them how I DID IT AND HOW I RECOMMEND YOU DO IT.
4.)There is a cut-off point where most bosses have to give you a W2, 7k a yr. Above that there's no PAPER FREE ZONE, so no problem, have ten bosses and earn 7 k each. Probably means you can only stay with one boss for 3 months. Then he hit the limit. He can no longer make any records of your presence. Some don't see it that way. Them you gotta leave.
4.) SEE YOUR BANKER MORE, your TAXMAN LESS! Cash pay checks at bank, don't deposit them, then pay cash for utilities, rent, clothes, food, shoes.
5.)AVOID FALLING for stocks and bonds, the lazy man's way to be rich except it didn't work for anybody except Warren Buffet as he was SELLING stocks to other people. He had a fund. Not the same. CASH IS KING. The rest is a casino.
6.) Have a brilliant BUSINESS CONCEPT. Something
like
this, doesn't have to be this.You pay two teen football player
to give 15$ an hour massages after school, MEN ONLY and you bill the clients
l00$ an hour, you sell rolfing or shiatsu sessions to muscley types
who need much stronger massage therapists than the ladies do..
YOU BETTER THE KIDS LIVES' as you teach
the secrets of the great masseurs to these kids.....My massage lady was
a 6 foot two school basketball star, all of 17 yrs old, lived on my street,
studied with Yogi Bhajan, was a master. 5$ I paid for a half hour. (I was
poor.) But If I'd thought of it, I could have booked her in Beverly Hills
with my rich astrology clients for l00$ an hour. Luckily, she thought of
it. Went to India semester break. Lives in Topanga Canyon now, hippie ritzy.
When you build a biz around kids you are a free trainer. You learn to live with all the kids who find out what you're paying THEM is 1/10th of what you make, and so they conscript the client for themselves... losing you that client...Chalk it up to karma. BUT before they leave, that 15$ you spend on the worker makes you l00$ cash. Businesses run with workers, cash on the barrel head is your best investment. We were talking about stocks and bonds here? Read 'HIRE YOUR IDIOT NEPHEW' DO AIR REPAIR, MAKE A MILLION.
They will all run off and do the biz on their own unless they adore you. Unless you are a saint. So this whole tack is about being a saint. And when you are, you are a law unto yourself. You are only above the law of the country if you are more moral than the customs of the country!
Anita! How avant-garde is it to have a website recommending
ways for people to
make money by breaking the law? How ingenious of you to tell folks
to
stop paying income tax for example. Oh, you'll get a share of fans,
sure!
People want to hear that, so they'll latch onto ideas that suit them.
But have you TAUGHT anything?
I regard myself as a guerilla. I run thousands
of seminars for free teaching people
how to feed and educate their families. I am
a guerilla trainer. Do you know what that
word guerilla truly means? It refers to
one who is an ILLEGAL UPSTART
out in the boonies with an unfiched biz, ignoring
an evil government. It's a noble tradition.
THE WHOLE POINT is to break the rules.
They won't educate my kids. They let the
universities raise prices l00 times. I guess
cuz they have us over a barrel and they can tax
the Rectors. They take that tax money and kill
a million Iraquis, 100thousand Afghanis. They run
cocaine and heroin and crack to our kids. They
aim to get ghetto hoods addicted only, but they
get the future college kids addicted, too. I
am an overt radical. Anger is at the heart of it
Not forgiveness. OUR S.E.C. let Wall Street ruin
the planet, leaving joblessness, homelessness
and famine in their wake. So why hug our GOV?
I recommend you IGNORE this
Government, outright. Leave them to the HELL
they made here. They had the best people, best
constitution, best manufacturing sector, best
raw resources, best country and they fucked it up.
They aren't going to keep me and my kids from
making a living in the little, arid rows
we choose
to hoe.
The page telling poor people to get a mountain cabin to grow a garden?
Unrealistic.
Cruel!! Let them eat cake! I live in IDAHO and we couldn't grow an
apple here, it is bitter and cold
and I'm only here as my college courses HERE are 1/10th of what they'd
cost in
the big city where I really live. Instead, help your readers
plan how to live in a kibbutz & share chores,
plant-growing, watering, etc.
I always do. . I never said live alone! Read http://home.earthlink.net/~astrology/ssacrash.html
I feel it's even more cruel of you to tell single moms about your hilarious adventures stiffing welfare
(What stiff? I had four fatherless
children! Left a Spaniard behind in Mexico after he put
a gun to my head, beat me up, broke my ribs when
I was pregnant. I had to return to
California, my home town.) and yeah I was doing
astrology and not telling
welfare about that income....(whatta fortune!
I was 15$ an hour, three clients a week
tops. I practically gave it away! Besides, county
would have taken away the 200$ AFDC check that
I found moderately useful for rent and utilities
and they'd have taken away the 126$ for food
stamps if I told them about astrology. I needed
that food!
Here you tell the brokest of the broke ones to do import export. To
go travel
the world & spend their food money on treasures people will supposedly
want.
SInce the crash I've amended that to SELLING ARTISANRY
made by people who
are a mile from your house, shipping to EUROPE
where it's worth more. See file:
http://www.masterjules.net/typamer.htm
one
of a dozen articles on that subject.
NO MORE do I say go to the third world and bring
stuff back here!
(I made a dangerous decision spending my last US$80 on American Spirit
pesticide free cigarettes & I returned to my village in Mexico,
starving hungry. Tourists there paid me four times what I paid for
them...I
made $320 total off the cartons & cartons of cigarettes WHICH I
placed
myself in danger with....yes if you look like merchant, especially
a
LYING merchant --trying not to pay the Mexican customs their due, and
escaping taxation, oh yeah & compete with every-good-citizen tax-paying,
licensed
merchant you go to PRISON down there!.In retrospect it was a total
risk one that a blond traveling alone
doesn't need to take, but I used that profit for food money for the
next
2 months. Money was scarce, but it went oh so much farther in Mexico.)
Ok back to your folklorico import-export business. The govts
every-fucking-where have taken the profit out of that. There is no
moving of huge containers unnoticed anymore, since 9/11 --with good
reason, --like filling ocean liner compartments in Bali for $600, shipping
them back to the mall, making 100% profit. Year's worth of inventory
to tinker
with, oh joy, helping the poor people in Bali with our infusion of
cash!
($600? Really? Was it ever REALLY a humanitarian MISSION like you make
it out to be?) Those days are long-since over, you'd pay more for
shipping, inspection, declare every item, pay on it, etc etc. The govt
even figured the landlord cant donate cheap rent 2 u unless you are
a
5013c foundation, or else every other tenant can yell discrimination.
It's so the govt can even regulate a bartering, cash-free culture.
DOES the world need more chotchkezs? Junk? Bracelets? Art? My criticism
of the biz idea is that they only way to profit from the get-go is
to have no
overhead besides your vacation & the cost of the goods.
Yikes! it starts with having the money for the goods! How many women
with
bad taste read your article, went on vacation and STILL have closets
filled with
hand-tooled belts and purses they can't sell? No business license,
no customs duties, no taxes.
In collecting money for the goods, wholesaling as you say, to huge
stores that require a tax ID number for vendors they deal with. Sellers
of nick-knacks ply their wares to buyers of dept store chains the way
bands try to get signed to major labels. It is so simplistic to say
"FIND
rare cheap art & BECOME the only source for it in the world, SELL
it in
bulk to Macy's. The end. Well DUH. Thanks for that
pointer, Sherlock. Don't know how I coulda done it without you.
If any of this advice Jules left you about money was valid today, you'd
be the richest chick on the planet.
When Jules left the Bazaar Folklorico, I lived
in Mexico and the only
production line I had was babies. One every l8
months. Then twenty
years to raise them. No time ever to go into
any business. Sorry to disappoint
you. Maybe it's a case of those who can't, teach.
But I did teach. By then
I'd seen him go on to the hottest corner in West
Hollywood and make millions.
SO I wrote it up. I never said I DID IT. I always
said that he did it. But he was a stock
broker when I met him. A fired one. Forty years
later, he was a multi millionaire and
I was typing his chapters, his lectures. Proud
to be doing so, too!
Anita, YOU have all the tools, & you have what you need to create
wealth. Your words:
" Coffee, desk, electricity, PC, phone and server." We all have that,
so why
aren't 120,000 newly laid-off people going immediately on vacation
to buy
needed items (beer can openers shaped like iguanas) to bring back here
and sell to the rest of
us? Doesn't that seem like what 120,000 people should be doing? Getting
all Folklorico?
Why aren't you?
I'm 70 years old, I'm not looking for any activity
other than growing beets, salad, oranges and
corn. Folklorico
still works, it just doesn't work as WELL any more. I have opened a new
WING to my thinking, much as I'd love a silver
iguana with some jade or chalcedony lapidary
insets, with the added, utilitarian feature of
opening beers! However, I think we have
to RETOOL! Find AMERICAN
ARTISANS and become their sales agents to
EURO-rich cities like Zurich, Paris, London.
See the dollar is weak. OUR STUFF seems mega
cheap to them. Swedes will pay big for a SCHOOL
BAG with BASQUIAT typically American
designs. (below) AMERICAN GRAFFITI looks could
be so hot! And they don't have it in EUROPE!
Anita, maybe your advice was sound in the 80s. When we all had $$ to
spend &
homes to decorate with southwestern flair. Now, espec. in Las Vegas,
NV you
can get a $2k oak roll top desk antique for $25 if you'll haul it away
today. People are losing their homes giving away treasures, grand
pianos!! or losing them to auction. If we had a truck, there are "Free
Hot Tub, you haul away" ads all over on Craigs...why leave that for
the
bank to take, too?
Sadly that is the "ULTIMATE roll with the blows,
TODAY BUSINESS." A truck, a small
wad of bills, pick up treasures, then have everyone
come to YOUR HOUSE
to buy used fabulous furniture! You help the
foreclosed guy not feel so bad about
leaving his entire household to a trucking crew.
All I know is my grandparents lived through the
Great Depression and World War I and
World War II both. They were hunted down, imprisioned
in concentration camps,
were the victims of the German
inflation, hid out in South of France where Nazis didn't go,
until 1945, moved to NEW YORK. They had to use
their brains to survive. One opened
a boarding house. The others gave lessons in
Cassis, Provence.
It's in my GENES to know we have to ignore the
nazis, let them do their stupid thing,
retool career wise. Get six back up careers in
the wings. And paying the IRS and
CITY and state TAXES just isn't on our TO DO
LIST! Until we reach high ground!
I KNOW I am suggesting guerilla tactics, a kind
of survival war but if you are not on your
guard, they will continue to suck you dry and
give the money away to unworthy causes. And
you were shorn like a sheep. The line that you
will walk is an ethical line. You will never stiff
a client or profit off a sucker. Suckers don't
exist for you. We are all brothers in this war.
You
give people beauty that they will enjoy and treasure. If you sell someone
an iguana beer key with semi precious stones all around a silver lizard
shape, that heirloom gorgeous piece the guys will pass around his friends
to open beers on SuperBowl Sundays had better be no more than twenty bucks!
Try getting one like it in KANSAS, Dorothy. Not gonna happen. You had them
custom made in TAXCO. You paid l0$ the ARTISAN bought his tortillas and
real pork for his kids. You don't cheat him but you don't give it
away either. You sell the UTILITARIAN AND UNIQUE and sell it Cheap.!
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