All-In Trump, tax riff

June 25, 2024

The image is a screenshot of a webpage from the site "ird.gov.lk," displaying tax information. The page title is "Tax Chart" for the Year of Assessment 2022/2023. The layout is structured with a navigation menu on the right side, listing options related to international relations, tax guides, and more. The main section presents two expandable sections: "Tax Rates for Resident and Non-Resident Individuals" and "Tax Rates for Companies." Below these, a section specifically labeled for "the first six months period (period from 01.04.2022 to 30.09.2022)" shows a table with tax rates.
The table is divided into a "Standard Rate" and "Special Rates." The standard rate for the taxable income of a company, excluding those taxed at special rates, is 24%. Various special rates, all set at 14%, apply to different gains and profits, such as those from small and medium enterprises, export sales, specified undertakings, and educational services.
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3:30 PM

3:15 p.m. (c)

I dunno what the local rates are. But there are complaints, chief among them being they're way too high, there's no account for what's been done with them and there's definitely nothing to show for what they've done with the money they have grabbed off 999 out of 1,000 of us. There are signs of theft, with Rajapaksa's exhibiting many gold watches or chains or personal vehicles or properties (even overseas), with Ranil admitting to books being cooked or public finance ledgers being falsified to the tune of many hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions over a long span of time.

I saw it's 14 percent for SMEs, but there is no platform to help those SMEs reach good business outcomes, or the market with stability, or to partner up with large firms. The market or domestic economy is a jungle, either people find some fruits or animals to eat by chance, hoping it's not poisonous, and they don't get eaten alive first. It's an inhospitable landscape, culture and stay-in-the-████████ecosystem which has been established by racketeers as an institution to disrupt the day to day lives of 99 families out of a 100 to stay depending on them, so they are able to maintain criminal monopolies at our people's destruction.

With us we've got the SLWF, a Lehan brainchild, a collection of funds we pool 10% of our personal incomes towards as investments, which are then invested as the name would suggest in those specific markets, configured with MNC partners whom we judged reliable, to improving productivity, product quality and reaching international excellence perceptions -- effectively.

This ensures that the SMEs who are somewhat competitive or knowledgeable or structured adequately to reach those work targets or business goals or objectives, have a very safe way of contributing into those industries, with a way to promote, upgrade or grow very easily, mentored by the best of the best, and to finally help strengthen our economy.

This is something I'm big on, as it's the way we can fully unleash the potential of our people, without relying solely on the free market like Netanyahu, which isn't any longer as competitive a political solution for our entrepreneurs or industrialists-- given the immense competition we face regionally and globally, particularly from state funded firms who have final goods and services priced well below our costs of production or even delivery.

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4:45 PM

4:30 p.m.

Trump is more like JFK than he'd ever know. The same.

I have always had a poster of JFK on my wall, and an oil painting of my grandma in her blue kandyan saree. JFK, I would watch YouTube videos of him as a teenager, in amazement, his vision for mankind and womenkind.

It's interesting Chamath threw that in there. I was going to replace my JFK with Trump, as Trump's my hero. I didn't even know.

Growing up, I got to looking for books to read, in my dad's closet, with a box fun things that I don't even know what. And as Ivanka said: think big. There was this book that caught my eye. It had this energy, this coolness, it read, How to think big and kick ass. Somehow it was the only book in the world at that moment (now it's old, and brown, but looks gold to me, as it was my dad's book). That title itself, is enough to sell it.

I prefer Art of the Deal, I based my whole diary on it, although███████████████████████Trump, even so, Trump's persona shaped my own, very much the same as Lee Kuan Yew's from third world to first. Another book, that spoke to me, and got me reading it from a 1,000 options. That was the Trump book I saw in my dad's bookcase library.

In the bookshop: out of 1,000s. I walked around, and I kept looking. What will it be. I would read Goosebumps, a lot of those books. My dad caught me playing my Gameboy with 2 Chinese friends in a Singapore bookstore once. I read Harry Potter. But over here, somehow, I saw Lee Kuan Yew's book. It read, the Singapore story from his terms in office. I read it, mesmerized by that man's brutal honesty. He was a prime minister for 30 years.

Overseeing their development. Nobody cares if you can beat a game on easy. He did it on Legendary to become the legend. That man, you know, he is worth a 1,000 ministers of a government, a 1,000 lawyers. ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

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I think my advice, is more like my honesty, and I can advise any.

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