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Originally Posted by August
Gimpy if you have proof of an individual evading their taxes then you should report it. Otherwise it's just more meaningless partisan rhetoric from you.
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so any argument is invalid i say unless I have detailed financial information on all of the top % of earners...how convenient for you...
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Originally Posted by August
For instance you should quit equaling the taking of legal deductions with "dodging taxes". Apples and oranges.
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I'm not talking about legal things. I'm talking about sleazy tactics like hiding yachts in tax free zones, or putting your profits on overseas accounts to deliberately have no taxes on them. But I may add, a lot of the "legal" deductions have been put in place by the greasing of many palms by a swarm of lobbyists
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Originally Posted by August
Besides. The "chunk" of stock that the "super rich" own is not by any means the largest chunk. If you shake down these companies it will just be passed on to all of us in the form of higher prices and reduced dividends. Don't you realize that the retirement funds of millions of Americans in all economic classes are dependent on those corporate profits that you want to hijack?
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You also seem to forget that you could pool the ENTIRE net worth of every one of the super rich and it wouldn't even come close to paying off the Federal deficit let alone the retirement funds of all those "little guys" you claim to want to turn our system on it's ear to help.
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whoopty freaking dee! so this fact is supposed to make it okay to let these people live tax free and pampered, when everybody else is supposed to be tightening their belts due the the financial crisis that was caused largely by said group?