How To Be A Proper Baller and A Proper Patriot by Mark Cuban

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With the passing of September 11th 2011, the rise in the debt ceiling and the pre-election madness coming to a boil, there’s been a lot of talk of what it means to be a Patriot. The talk need not continue after today because Mark Cuban has thrown his two cents in. Getting super rich and paying a lot of taxes is the most Patriotic thing you can do. Final.

Mark updated his BlogMaverick.com at 12:25 this afternoon with an article titled The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do. Then he wrote an article that gave me chills. In fact, I’m thinking of starting a Hedge Fund as a side job while I’m not writing. If you’re looking for some good old inspiration today, here’s Cuban’s words. I wish mine.

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“Bust your ass and get rich.

Make a boatload of money. Pay your taxes. Lots of taxes. Hire people. Train people. Pay people. Spend money on rent, equipment, services. Pay more taxes.

When you make a stuffload of money. Do something positive with it. If you are smart enough to make it, you will be smart enough to know where to put it to work.

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I don’t care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefiting you and your family, but in the broader sense.  Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make the more of a financial impact you can have.

I’m not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that  big public companies will  continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.  Every cut job by the big companies extracts a cost on the American people in one way or another.

Entrepreneurs are needed to create and grow companies to absorb those people in new jobs. If entrepreneurs don’t create those jobs, the government ends up having to spend more money to help them one way or another.

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So be Patriotic. Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes , your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write. Your 2nd thought will be “what a great problem to have”, and your 3rd should be a recognition that in paying your taxes you are helping to support millions of Americans that are not as fortunate as you.

In these times of “The Great Recession” we shouldn’t be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes. I don’t. I find it Patriotic.

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I’m not saying that the government’s use of tax money is the most efficient use of our hard-earned capital. It obviously is not. In a perfect world, there would be a better option. We don’t live in a perfect world. We don’t live in a perfect time. We live in a time where the government plays a big role in an effort to help lead us out this Great Recession. That’s reality.

So I will repeat my point. Get out there and make a boatload of money. Enjoy the stuff out your money. Pay your taxes.

It’s the most Patriotic thing you can do.” – Mark Fucking Cuban

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