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SteamWake · 07-25-10, 09:08 AM

From taxes !!!

Pepole have been doing this for decades. I have personally shuttled some boats for 'wealthy' socialites from one state to another for this very reason.

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Originally Posted by Boston Herald

Could the reason be that the Ocean State repealed its Boat Sales and Use Tax back in 1993, making the tiny state to the south a haven - like the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and Nassau - for tax-skirting luxury yacht owners?

http://bostonherald.com/track/inside...icleid=1269698

nikimcbee · 07-25-10, 04:07 PM

what a hypocrite

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07-25-10, 04:24 PM

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what a hypocrite

It is everyones right to pay no more tax than they are legally required to.
Besideswhich Kerry and his wife are both trustafarians which means the legal teams have the big say on how to manage the funds and assets for the benefit of their clients.

Now you could make a story about Kerry having a boat that wasn't registered there,but that story would be "WTF are those highly paid accountants and lawyers playing at"......

gimpy117 · 07-25-10, 05:07 PM

Paying your fair share of taxes is your civil duty. Even if it's not technically illegal to tax shelter it's immoral and hurting america. The USA loses a lot of tax revenue a year because some selfish citizens and companies try to get around taxes any way they can. People would say it was wrong if you got up from church and left every time the offering plate was passed around...so why do this when america passes it's plate to you?

07-25-10, 05:12 PM

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Paying your fair share of taxes is your civil duty.

Is there any suggestion that they didn't pay taxes that were due?

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The USA loses a lot of tax revenue a year because some selfish citizens and companies try to get around taxes any way they can.

It is everyones right to [pay only the taxes they have to pay,, are you suggesting people and companies should just become charitable donors to the government?
....hold on , would that be deductable?

Sailor Steve · 07-25-10, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by gimpy117

Paying your fair share of taxes is your civil duty. Even if it's not technically illegal to tax shelter it's immoral and hurting america. The USA loses a lot of tax revenue a year because some selfish citizens and companies try to get around taxes any way they can. People would say it was wrong if you got up from church and left every time the offering plate was passed around...so why do this when america passes it's plate to you?

No, it's not anyones "civil duty" to pay taxes. When people in government create taxes that are wrong, it is our civic duty to oppose them. People have rights. Government does not.

The true purpose of taxation is that government has no means to create revenue, so if we want something from government we have to empower the government to take what is necessary for it to run.

Now we have people in the government who think it is their job to support everything they can imagine, and when anyone points out that they wrong to do so, they cry "immoral" and "not paying their fair share". All taxes are evil, but they are a necessary evil. When people like you start claiming that taxes are good, and avoiding them is bad, then America has already gone far too far in the wrong direction.

The personal income tax was created in the first place because self-righteous control freaks in the government wanted to stop the rich from "getting away with it". We create government to protect our rights, and we make laws to protect ourselves from each other. Just because you believe that someone having more money than someone else is evil, doesn't make it so. The purpose of taxation is to keep the government running, not because you or anyone else thinks it's "right", or "moral".

gimpy117 · 07-25-10, 05:26 PM

okay...then explain to me how having the money to buy a multi million dollar yacht but then taking it somewhere so you don't have to pay taxes upon it is ok? sure you shouldn't have to pay an unfair tax (thats why we have a representative democracy) but when you have that kind of money you should contribute to society. Theres a lot of good average Americans who pay all of their taxes and are barely scraping by. Why can't they do their part?

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gimpy117 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Kalamazoo, MI Posts: 3,243 Downloads: 108 Uploads: 0	Paying your fair share of taxes is your civil duty. Even if it's not technically illegal to tax shelter it's immoral and hurting america. The USA loses a lot of tax revenue a year because some selfish citizens and companies try to get around taxes any way they can. People would say it was wrong if you got up from church and left every time the offering plate was passed around...so why do this when america passes it's plate to you? __________________ Member of the Subsim Zombie Army

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gimpy117 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Kalamazoo, MI Posts: 3,243 Downloads: 108 Uploads: 0	okay...then explain to me how having the money to buy a multi million dollar yacht but then taking it somewhere so you don't have to pay taxes upon it is ok? sure you shouldn't have to pay an unfair tax (thats why we have a representative democracy) but when you have that kind of money you should contribute to society. Theres a lot of good average Americans who pay all of their taxes and are barely scraping by. Why can't they do their part? __________________ Member of the Subsim Zombie Army