I don't have a small business, so I don't know. It seems like the business getting the work done would have a tax incentive to claim money that went back into the business, but I have nowhere near the experience with tax fraud that you apparently do.

I worked at Radio Shack in undergrad and high school. If any of you have any reason to shop there, (these days, I couldn't think of a reason to) something to remember is that they have a "$50 Rule." It's an unwritten company guideline which says that the store must give store credit (at least) for anything under $50. If they won't, insist on getting the district manager's phone number. If they still won't relent, go to the regional manager. Eventually, they'll suck up to you and give you whatever it is you want.

In my current trade, law, all I can say is that if you have to hire a lawyer, first, don't hire anyone who advertises on TV -- those operations are usually set up as "volume" operations. In other words, they'll take the first settlement offered and move on to the next client. Most of the time your case will receive only a very small amount of attention from an actual lawyer.

Second, consult with several lawyers, don't be afraid to get a second opinion.

Finally, be on your best behavior for any consultation -- dress nicely, behave, don't get emotional. Many lawyers will raise their retainers when they see a potential client is either going to be a high-maintenance client or if the lawyer just doesn't like them.

-- Also, be nice and pay your bill.

You're not much of a thinker. Again, there are numerous ways to pay upfront. To skip billing and take payment in an untraceable manner, a la cash or say...diamonds...is the clearest sign of keeping something off the books for either tax evasion or something more exotic, like money laundering and, oh say, terrorism financing. I'm glad I educated you. Next time, if you don't know about something you shouldn't make such suggestions.

-Rudey

what's the difference between the small business owner that would rather get paid in cash, therefore untraceable, and the white-collar suit that dips on the side with money in offshore accounts, with the intent on being untraced?

Dips on the side? Like do the dippy dip?

-Rudey

if you are sitting in a restaurant and notice that it is getting especially cold or the background music seems loud, chances are you or someone around you has been sitting at thier table for a very long time even though they are done with thier food. We would jack up the air or the music in a particular zone to try and get people to move on.

LOL its like the Academy awards!

you know what i mean. when even the legit folks have side hustles...

if thats the case, TGIFridays doesnt want anybody lingering long lol!

Actually, PR people love it when our news releases are copied. The reporter wants to print every word we wrote, and how we wrote it? PERFECT! That's why we write in Associated Press style...so the reporter can slip in our press releases without having to re-write anything.

Most of them will change a word or two, or the headline, to make it their own piece. Or they won't sign the article.

What about it? I made a comment on paying in cash to a small business owner. I didn't comment on anything else, whether it's murder or large-scale tax evasion. But there are laws for legitimate offshore income and black market activities, and if there's something beyond that which bothers you I assume someone who likes talking philosophy is good for that discussion.

-Rudey

Yes and no. You essentially become a "ghost writer" which happens a lot in the PR field. Many times when you see a bylined article by a CEO or high-profile executive in a magazine or newspaper, the CEO or executive didn't write the article. A PR person wrote up the article for them and attached the CEO's or executive's name to it. You'd be surprised how many executives just cannot write. They're very business savvy but when it comes to putting their thoughts on paper they have no clue where to even begin. It's essentially the same thing with reporters (except the reporter can write - he/she is just being lazy when putting in a press release directly from the PR rep rather than writing something on their own). When you send out a press release, it's almost an unwritten contract between the PR rep and the reporter that states "use this how you wish". Sometimes the reporter will use the release in its entirety, sometimes they'll use parts of it or sometimes they'll twist the release to fit their own agenda and give a negative 'spin' to your company. (the last one suuuuuucks but, unfortunately, it happens because reporters know that their constituents would like to read a more 'juicier' article)

Re: the lawyers, I remember advice I was given about divorces. When you decide to get one, call all of the good ones first, tell them your story, and then when your spouse calls they are out of luck because they've already head from one of the parties. Might not be as effective in a metro area, but I recently saw it happen to someone, and it spanned to the next county.

There are other reasons to give incentives to pay cash, such as not having to pay the percentage that credit companies take out of every transaction. In those cases, a cashier's check is as good as cash.

Hence why I posted about checks and other non-cash methods. But thanks for posting something completely useless and irrelevant.

-Rudey

Um, you really didn't touch on those reasons, you automatically assumed that small business owners are tax-evading losers. Thanks for being a dick, like you always are.

I discussed why someone would use cash as an untraceable method as opposed to several other upfront payment methods.

I didn't post something completely irrelevant like you did. Thanks for being so insulting. Your anger probably stems from talking your mouth off so often about things you know little about. Perhaps this is why you've had such unfortunate luck with the gentlemen in your life. Take care.

-Rudey

Rudey,

Someone pointed out that you could save 20% a certain way. You immediately sprang to tax fraud, and even when no one disputed that tax fraud was a possibility, just suggested other possibilities, you lapsed into insulting people.

How does this communication strategy work out for you generally?

What are you looking for here?

Step 1: Calm Down

Step 2: Click on Rudey's username

Step 3: Click on "view all posts by this user"

Step 4: Read

Step 5: Comprehend how Rudey works, and apply here

You edited your first post because, in your own words, you didn't want to be a jerk. Hence you did the first insult. When kstar replied to me, she called me a dick (perhaps why her fiance dumped her - an attitude she has exhibited in multiple threads on multiple topics from USC football to politics). I believe that pretty much shuts down your argument on insulting. Regardless, insulting has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

The topic was saving money by paying in cash. Here's another way to make money. You have someone kill the person you owe money to. A bullet is really cheap actually. You didn't pull any trigger so you didn't commit a crime. Oh wait, you may just have. Again, the reason why people are so willing to accept cash is to cheat on taxes. It's a crime. I just gave you that information. Here's another analogy. Someone in the Congo cuts off a 12 year old boy's hand, enslaves his older brother to work in a diamond mine, then uses the diamonds to buy more machetes to cut more hands. You can get these blood diamonds at a substantial discount. 20% even maybe.

You made some ridiculous remark, realized you were wrong, said you weren't an expert, and instead of shutting up at that point you kept going with it. Do you think that perhaps now is the time to shutup?

If honeychile actually believes she's a good Christian, I'm sure she won't go around being an advocate of such a heinous act.

If you've got even an ounce of intelligence in you, you'll shutup now.

-Rudey

My original jerky remark was returning the favor of your having called me retarded in another thread about ugly flip-flops. Did you even see the unedited version? By your standards, I don't it even would have made an impression.
But even so, it's hard to think that my deletion of a rude comment somehow invalidates the fact that you're insulting as your basic MO on GC. Work it out as a syllogism and see. There's no way to arrive at that conclusion logically, is there?

I still don't think my original suggestion that a business might like cash upfront for reasons other than tax evasion was ridiculous. (I concede that I have no idea what percentage of business prefer cash up front strictly because they want to avoid taxes, but I bet you don't either.)

Nor did I at any time defend tax evasion.

It's interesting on a scale of pure outrageousness that you've tried to make avoiding paying taxes morally equivalent to committing murder and perpetrating violence in the diamond trade, but I'm sure your logical and thoughtful presentation convinced everyone reading the thread. Surely you must also believe that going 10 miles over the speed limit on the highway is just like selling heroin to school children.

I'm going to pretend I don't see any of your comments in the future and we'll both be happier.

Thanks. I will.

can we get back on topic? i was actually enjoying this thread. kthxbye

Another thread on flip flops has nothing to do with this one. Flip flops has nothing to do with tax fraud. Got it? Good. Concluded? great.

So you're saying you don't know about something but that you're right? When do you ever back down? There are numerous ways to pay upfront. People prefer cash to keep it off the books. You said you don't know about it so please just shutup already and stop commenting.

What's outrageous is you have no concept of what an analogy is. I didn't say paying with cash is akin to murder. You did because you have difficulty understanding what an analogy is. Obviously you're not the brightest. Whether that's nurture or nature, I don't know. Honestly I don't care.

Please put me on ignore bumpkin.

-Rudey

Thanks for quoting her and forcing me to see what she wrote. She probably wrote that in between beatings from her abusive Mexican husband. I'll have to add you to my list of complete buffoons that are on ignore on GC.

-Rudey

I think this will prove very mutually agreeable.

Don't forget:

Step 6: Put Rudey on Ignore


Its so much easier to ignore his stupidity that way.

Supposedly you've got me on ignore and then come on to post out of the blue to tell me you've got me on ignore. Good job. You're not a bright bulb either.

-Rudey
--PS I was the one that put the idiots on ignore, so stop stealing my material dbag.

Back on topic . . .
 

I worked for years at the Texas Renaissance Festival. Turkey legs that were not sold one year - were frozen and kept until the next year.
YUM.

^^^ ewwwww!

i always think about that when drugstores sell all their Easter candy for 50% off the week after. what if they don't sell it? where do all the chocolate eggs and Peeps go? on the shelf for next year?

(makes me think of The Chocolate War... anyone, anyone?)

At my house, we celebrate 50% off Chocolate Day on Feb. 15th!

50% off candy corn on November 1st!

I didn't call you a dick, I said you were being a dick. (Which means you were acting like one.)

On another subject, my current boyfriend and ex-fiance broke up with me at one time due to the stress of law school, his MBA program and working 30 hour weeks while I was stressing out about applying to vet schools. Once he realized he made a mistake, he decided to try to reverse the action.

However, bringing that up when it had nothing to do with the subject at hand is continuing to act like a dick. My attitude has everything to do with the fact that you are consistently insisting that small business owners, waiters, or anyone that is in a lower socio-economic strata than you are not worth your time or theives (and I can't help that your views on politics are wrong.)

So you insulted me? something you've done in a lot of threads to a lot of people.

So you were dumped? got it.

So you don't know what you're talking about and are now bringing politics into this when it has nothing to do with it?

-Rudey
--If I was your ex-fiance I would have broke up with you the moment you opened your mouth.

yuk. I use to go every year to the one in Magnolia Texas. Luckily I don't eat turkey but my friend would have a turkey leg every year. I will have to tell her what you said:eek:

OK one from me. If your (insert animal here, usually a dog) got into pot be honest with me. I can spot a pot dog coming in the door (so can most of the staff)and if you are not honest with me you will have about a 1000$ estimate. If you are honest with me then it will just be the exam fee and a "he'll sleep it off tonight" comment. I promise I won't call the police or CPS. Just tell me the truth. BTW I know your neighbor didn't just throw it in your yard either-get real:rolleyes:

Also, if you are a dick to me about how long you have been waiting, you WILL be waiting much longer so be nice.

From when I worked in jewelry:
- In my experience, ALWAYS buy the service plan when it comes to a nice piece of jewelry. When you buy the service plan, ALWAYS follow the terms of the agreement (usually coming in and having it cleaned and checked every so often). If you do this, the store will usually pay for anything that goes wrong... which can include replacing missing stones, prong retipping, new rhodium plating, all kinds of expensive things. But if you don't buy the service plan, or if you miss your inspection dates, and your big 1 carat stone pops out of its setting... we could care less if it's over 90 days. And you will be mad when you have to replace that big sucker on your own dime.

- We sell jewelry cleaner in a box, but what we use in our store's sonic cleaner is one part Mr. Clean, one part water. Use a toothbrush to get it really clean and don't forget to go behind the setting. People who don't take their rings off much have some really funky and gross stuff back there.

-Don't put your silver in regular cleaner though... use toothpaste for that or a cleaner for silver jewelry.

And from what I do now:
- Dollar store pregnancy tests are not accurate. If you want an accurate test, you need to buy the expensive kind in the store or you need to go to the doctor's office. (that may seem like common sense to some of you, but you never know...)
- You can be still getting some form of period every month and still be pregnant. You can still be pregnant and have a negative urine test. These are things that usually run in someone's family, so if you think you might be pregnant but you're still menstruating or you are still getting negatives at home, ask your mom or other family members who've been pregnant before. Sometimes you need a blood test or an ultrasound to confirm.

you know, there are some things you shouldnt skimp on... while i'd like to think that generic brand XYZ would work "just like name brand ABC" (as imitations tend to disclaim on their packaging), i would rather just shell the $ out on the good ish.

Honestly, is there any reason (besides the small-% cut taken by a CC company, which I believe has already been addressed) why a contractor or 'small business' would take up to TWENTY PERCENT off, other than the 'advantages' afforded by untraceable cash transactions?

Interestingly, 20% would be slightly below the tax burden on that item . . . hm, odd.

"Cash flow" can't be correct, since small businesses almost always live off their credit line for day-to-day costs anyway (and the amount of time needed to make another payment, say check, 'liquid' seems negligible in the grand scheme of things) . . . anything else?

Also, why don't larger businesses do this? Why do many large companies specifically avoid dealing with cash transactions?

I will never understand why some people believe that if they treat you poorly you will JUMP to take care of them immediately. Yes siree, please treat me like crap! Let me drop everything to take care of YOU, since you are so much more important than everyone else. :mad:
I think everyone should have to work one Christmas season in retail. They would then be sooooo much nicer and more understanding. At least in theory . . .

I TOTALLY AGREE! work in retail or in the service industry (at any time) .... I think people would be a hell of a lot nicer.