Wealth Formula Podcast

If you're paying a ton in taxes right now… it's because you're playing the wrong game. Most people think taxes are about income. They're not. They're about behavior—more specifically, incentivizing behavior. The government is constantly telling you what it wants through the tax code, and once you stop looking at it emotionally, it's actually pretty obvious. It wants businesses. It wants jobs. It wants housing. It wants capital deployed in specific areas like energy and infrastructure. And when you do those things, it rewards you with lower taxes. Now contrast that with the high-income W2 professional. You did everything right. You trained forever, built a career, and you're producing at a high level—often doing a lot of good in the world. But the government doesn't see working for someone else as something it needs to incentivize. In fact, as a high-earning professional, you often end up paying a higher effective tax rate than almost anyone else. Not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're no