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Frequently Asked Questions
1. HOW IS LEARNING ANY OF THIS GOING TO BENEFIT ME?
By learning to provide yourself with the basic needs (i.e., food, water, shelter, medicine, transportation, energy, etc.), you become Independent!
Independence is the absolute foundation of freedom! However, freedom is very valuable and does not come free. In order to be free, you
must become responsible for your own needs, self sufficient and independent of others, which means you need to gain the knowledge and the skills
necessary to provide yourself with the basic necessities of life. Once you have gained this understanding, you will no longer depend on the bill collectors,
the state and the government to keep you alive, and hence, you can responsibly say goodbye to your bills forever!
2. HOW WILL LEARNING ANY OF THIS HELP ELIMINATE MY BILLS?
By learning to be self-sufficient, you eliminate the middle-man (bill collectors) from the equation of your life because they are no longer providing you with the necessities of life...
you are. It is your choice. Spend a small portion of your free time providing for your own needs so will you survive comfortably (regardless of income), or spend most of your life working for others
to pay your bills and your taxes so that you will merely survive (so long as your income enables you to do so). Owe your life to and place your faith in bill collectors, the state and the government -
or place your faith in your own efforts and in God. Which is more gratifying? On another note, is it better as a nation to continuously spend millions or more of our tax dollars every year on foreign aid,
or would it be better if we spent a mere fraction on "teaching them to fish" for themselves so we don't have to? Is it better to continue providing the needs of a child throughout adulthood, or is it
better to teach the child to provide for their own needs? Choosing to be FREE, requires us to accept the responsibility that goes along with that freedom.
3. OK, HOW MUCH IS THIS GOING TO COST?
The cost to eliminate your bills will vary, depending on what bill you are eliminating, what type of systems your are using and whether you are building or buying these systems. One thing though is for sure -
in the long run it will cost you much more not to do anything about eliminating your bills in a sustainable manner than it will otherwise. Eliminating your bills now is an investment in not
only your own financial future, but if done in a sustainable manner as referred to on this site and other similar sites, you will also be investing in the future of man kind by helping to heal our planet and
encouraging others to follow suit.
4. WHERE DO I BEGIN?
This depends on your circumstances, but in general we suggest starting small. For example, start conserving the water and electricity you already use; walk more, drive less; purchase a solar evacuated tube water heating system ($600-800,
30% of which can be deducted off your federal income taxes -- saving you over 60% on your electric bill), etc. These are just suggestions, but a good place to start. The savings you accumulate can be used to reduce or even eliminate your
bills one at a time, and every time you do this you will have more money to move on to reducing or eliminating another bill. Eventually, your bills will be reduced to almost nothing... just imagine what you could do with all these savings!
5. ARE YOU AGAINST TAXES?
It depends on the tax, and where the money will be going. For example, if the money is to be spent on weapons of death and war, or for building bigger government and creating new federal
jobs at the expense of the people, or to make it easier for big businesses to monopolize the market so as to eliminate competition, or to make it easier for governments to trample on
our civil rights and reduce our level of freedom/independence, then no, we don't want to support it! But if the money is going to be spent on local communities, products and services,
education, roads and transportation, senior citizens, research, childcare, medical and emergency services and the like, then yes, we gladly contribute.
6. WHERE DO MY TAX DOLLARS GO?
To make this as simple as possible, almost all Federal Taxes imposed revolve around money and death (i.e., Income tax, SS/FICA tax, Medicare tax, Unemployment tax, Gift Tax, Estate Tax...
and probably importing and exporting taxes). If you earn taxable income, then you're liable for any and all federal taxes related to it, so remember to spend wisely (on your business,
health insurance, IRA/Roth IRA, donations, non-taxable investments, etc.) to reduce taxable income as much as possible.
More than half of our federal tax dollars pay for the Military (training, supplies, debts, etc.) and the rest goes to Medicare, Social Security, Education, Veteran's Benefits, Nutrition
Education, Housing, Natural Resources, Job Training, etc. Yes, I know, you are probably screaming, "What? Why shouldn't I want to support these things?" Because State, County and local taxes
(such as taxes on income, sales, tobacco, fuel, property, inheritance of estates, corporate income, driver's licenses and registration fees, etc.) already pay for these things
(i.e., County Health Departments and Hospitals for general and emergency medical services and nutrition education, local and regional health insurance companies for the rest of a person's medical needs --
which can be deducted up to 50% in some cases and reduced even further by other health and medical expense programs; plus we have public and private schools and universities, senior centers,
welfare and other state-run programs for the needy, low-income housing opportunities are almost everywhere, as are local job training resources, plus all the community resources provided
by charitable organizations, etc.), and besides, where do you think most of our federal tax dollars are going these days?
7. IS THERE ANY PARTICULAR JURISDICTION THAT IS BEST?
That depends. On the one hand, Federal jurisdiction is best because in most cases (but not all), state and local laws do not apply because they do not have jurisdiction. There are also considerably more applicable
State, County and Local laws than there are Federal laws. But there are different kinds of jurisdictions too; criminal cases would be different than say, a case involving lands located within Federal jurisdiction
(which couldn't have committed a crime in another jurisdiction) and/or something done on those lands. State/County jurisdiction is best in the sense that by contributing to the state and local communities,
you have the moral/legal right to access their programs and services... such as sending your kids to a public school. But either way Income taxes are imposed on us all, and many of us who are concerned about
reducing taxable income would naturally prefer to give more to our communities -- say to our private and local businesses (to improve products/services in response to local community needs), to life insurance
policies (so as to give children a better chance in the future), to personal IRA/Roth IRA plans (so as to reduce dependence on Social Security), to the local public and private schools, the health departments,
road departments, the city or county (say, to help build and/or maintain community gardens, for example)... than to simply give it to the feds., not only because donations reduce taxable income (and investing in
your community via municipal bonds is a great way to support the community and earn non-taxable income at the same time), but also because it is quicker and easier to make change and to benefit from your own
business and local communities than it is to beg and wait around for help from the federal government. So I guess, there really is no simple answer to this question.
If you have a question that has not been answered here, please feel free to email us with your question. Depending on how common the question is, we may
add it here.
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