Rich avoiding taxes.

[Takelli]

It seems that the rich are avoiding taxes.

How you may ask?

Well simple... they are denouncing their US citizenship.

If you do that, you should be deported to the country you are now a citizen in, rather still live here, and avoid taxes. Don't want to pay the taxes to live here, and say you are a citizen of another country? Well, you should be deported.

One of many articles: http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2012...arge-tax-bill/

[DakAttack]

Re: Rich avoiding taxes.

The rich have always gone to great lengths to establish laws that protect their ability to make and keep their money. They jam lawmakers up so hard with money so they'll purposefully create tax loopholes that only they can exploit, and if that doesn't work they put their own men into office to get the job done. This country could be much different if it had the taxes those people don't pay.

[Firewind]

Re: Rich avoiding taxes.

The entire UK Government does this. There's a whole bunch of ways you can avoid tax:

Employing family members.
Starting a company, making your salary $1 a year while having the rest of your cash as a loan from your own company that you're paying back to well...Nobody.
Foreign address exploitation.
Nationality/Citizenship exploitation.
Exploiting tax deductable expendatures.
Flat out lying on tax returns.
Fudging account figures.

Old news really.

[Malacite]

Re: Rich avoiding taxes.

I've actually been suggesting for a while now that if all these rich fucks don't want to pay their fare share, they should have their U.S. citizenship revoked.

[Takelli]

Re: Rich avoiding taxes.

I've actually been suggesting for a while now that if all these rich fucks don't want to pay their fare share, they should have their U.S. citizenship revoked.

And then deported from the country. But, know what? They run the fucking country, so that they won't do it.

[DakAttack]

Re: Rich avoiding taxes.

The French would burn or behead anybody of the ruling class that they felt wasn't ruling fairly. We should be doing that.

[Mezlo]

Re: Rich avoiding taxes.

The French would burn or behead anybody of the ruling class that they felt wasn't ruling fairly. We should be doing that.

You mean back in the 1700's? If you're refering to nowadays, I think you're giving the French more of a back bone than they deserve.

[Taskmage]

Re: Rich avoiding taxes.

about

that

Things were a lot worse in pre-revolutionary France. Not that I'm saying there are no parallels.

and

Don't assume that uprising would solve anything itself.

[Malacite]

Re: Rich avoiding taxes.

We're kinda at the point though where people need to either just run the bums out of town, or at least start a movement similar to the tea party only by people who actually know wtf they're talking about and pay more serious attention to the candidates running.

The rich have taken over and they aren't going to give it up easily.

[Murphie]

Re: Rich avoiding taxes.

Why the hell do people bother honestly replying to political/current events threads started by Takelli? Like, is this a benefit of the doubt situation, or is it one of those things where you think that even though the OP is poorly thought out that maybe some good discussion can come of it?

[Raydeus]

Re: Rich avoiding taxes.

ITT Murphie is trying to steer the convo away from the tax evading rich. Which obviously indicates Murphie is one of them elites!

/pitchfork

[DakAttack]

Re: Rich avoiding taxes.

Yea, fuck Murphie the Rich! Taking all the tax dollars out of my children's mouths, to stuff it into his fat cat bank account in the Easter Islands, all the while calling anybody who uses contraception a whore!!!

Yes, I'm taking us down that road.

[Armando]

Re: Rich avoiding taxes.

to stuff it into his fat cat bank account

What the fuck. My mind completely removed the word account and parsed the rest as fat cat bank. I was like, "we have cat banks now?"

[cidbahamut]

Re: Rich avoiding taxes.

I wish to know more about these cat banks you speak of.

[Taskmage]

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