If, after everything else we offer, you still feel restless and dissatisfied, maybe you just need to get away.

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After that, everything else is icing on the cake.

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Currently two thirds of the national budget is spent on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and national security, leaving 12% for everything else after interest payments.

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That means that the tax is paid after you take practically everything else out: utilities, rents, insurances, travel, promotion and advertising, other taxes and the overall cost of doing business.

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So, for many of you, even as you found your paychecks shrinking, even as after the crisis you found the value of your biggest asset, your home, falling, the cost of everything else has gone up: the cost of groceries, the cost of sending your kids to college, costs of retirement.

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