The government wants you to make more money.

1 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "The government wants you to make more money." (created 2024-04-01) containing a short, English discussion between two speakers about how the government uses tax incentives to encourage behaviors—saving and investing for retirement, homeownership, and starting/running small businesses. The speakers explain that the tax code legally incentivizes these actions by offering deductions and write-offs (retirement accounts, mortgage/homeowner benefits, and business expense deductions).

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Our country wants us to be more green. It wants us to save for retirement and invest for retirement because guess what? If you don't, who has to take care of you? The government. They don't want to do that. They want you to have your own money. So that's why they're incentivizing you to do that. They want people to be homeowners. That's why you can have some of that written off. If you are a small business owner, you can write off and essentially get a tax break on expenses because they want people to start businesses and write off things like office space or travel or business meals. And again, these are all ways to avoid taxes legally, but it allows you to also do something that Uncle Sam wants you to do.
That's a good one. It's, it's the tax code actually incentivizes people to do things. So businesses, real estate and all that, right? Like the more you do, the more tax incentives you get.
Correct.