In Fiscal Year 2006, the U.S. government operated with $2.407 trillion in revenue.

The $1500 operating expenses are things like taxes, insurance, management (even if you do it yourself), maintenance, advertising, office expenses, utilities (even if only during vacancies), legal fees, evictions, damage done by tenants in excess of the security deposit, etc, etc, etc.

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Anyone who feels entitled loves it (and they have the votes), and like any entitlement it's damn hard to get rid of.Other than simply not investing in socialist areas I don't really know how to prepare for that.Oh, and another thought: if I was a politician looking to raise tax revenues, I'd focus my efforts on a group that doesn't have much political clout and that is almost uniformly hated: the EVIL RICH LANDLORDS.

My office is in Hoboken, NJ on the Hudson River.

If I don't have one you need, I work in an office/brokerage that has 140 Realtors.

I don't see why AMEX wouldn't be catching on that this guy's office is approving dozens of $500k cards.

(The option fee is not a revenue source for the company.)

In Boston, 6 months vacancy would cost you $12,000 in lost revenues.

From the founding of this country through about 1840, most Americans only contact with the Federal Government was by using the Post Office.