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How many threads is this now that are moaning over your rich going off-shore?
Cripes, get a grip; it's been going on for decades. Aside from the likes of Warren Buffet; the very first thing anybody does who acquires wealth in the U.S. is to use a significant portion of it to evade your taxation and live in a more culturally advanced, less insular, environment.
The "rich" aren't working and earning income.
This is an INCOME tax on foreign income.
This is double taxation.
The USG says they want to uncover off shore investments.
In doing that they are also hurting the millions that are not rich and wealthy with offshore accounts.
The truly wealthy have already safeguarded their money against this action. It's called "foreign grantor trusts".
So the IRS will have to settle for those lower level earners.
And the GAO reporting that $95,000 was collected in taxes proves just that.
Well, I've done some math that indicates that, considering the hole this country is in, if you are one of these 1,130 people who are rich and complain about a 3.6% tax increase, then you are by definition a greedy unpatriotic a-hole and you don't deserve to be an American citizen under the protection of the most powerful country on Earth.
So, when your wife gets kidnapped and held for ransom call some other embassy for help.
This site certainly is eye opening to the depths of liberal insanity. How dare someone object to a government that spends like a drunken sailor taking more of their money. The nerve of them!!!
This site certainly is eye opening to the depths of liberal insanity. How dare someone object to a government that spends like a drunken sailor taking more of their money. The nerve of them!!!
"Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society."
Well, I've done some math that indicates that, considering the hole this country is in, if you are one of these 1,130 people who are rich and complain about a 3.6% tax increase, then you are by definition a greedy unpatriotic a-hole and you don't deserve to be an American citizen under the protection of the most powerful country on Earth.
So, when your wife gets kidnapped and held for ransom call some other embassy for help.
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This site certainly is eye opening to the depths of liberal insanity. How dare someone object to a government that spends like a drunken sailor taking more of their money. The nerve of them!!!
When and IF we ever see conservatives whining about spending like a drunken sailor on the DoD you might approach credibility, until then not so much.
Yup. Good deal. Hungarian/EU dual-citizenship (ala Jus sanguinis since both parents were born there) and wifey is Canadian dual citizen. Our child is born here but shouldn't be a problem starting anew if we had to.
Enjoy those "way more socialistic than America" countries.
You gripe about "socialism" HERE - and your "answer" to move THERE?
LOL
You folks crack me up.
Well, I've done some math that indicates that, considering the hole this country is in, if you are one of these 1,130 people who are rich and complain about a 3.6% tax increase, then you are by definition a greedy unpatriotic a-hole and you don't deserve to be an American citizen under the protection of the most powerful country on Earth.
So, when your wife gets kidnapped and held for ransom call some other embassy for help.
That is the predictable, knee-jerk response but what reality does it have based in fact? ZIPPO.
Firstly they may resent paying their taxes to agencies who squander that money in ways the electorate have stipulated many times they're not in agreement with but it gets spent frivolously regardless.
Secondly the much over used "protection" word to describe all of the more recent subornation of freedoms and rights which only serve to prove you are not able to protect yourselves without requiring complete subserviance and compliance to a security apparatus second to none in the rest of the world. Would that be the environment you intend to use "protection" as a descriptor.
Perhaps some of these folk are simply fed up with taxation going to provide nothing in the way of advanced cultural improvements but instead being used to fund a military complex that cannot provide security for embassies, your citizens abroad OR, more importantly, your domestic evironment as witnessed by the Boston and Fort Hood debacles among many others.
Many people are probably taking pause to think about where all those taxes are going. When they are forced to consider everything that has happened recently from the enactment of the ACA, they are "forced" to complyy with but their ruling class are not, to drones being allowed to fly overhead, to NSA data mining on the basis of a crappy piece of legislation called the Patriot Act abrogating individual rights, perhaps, just perhaps they've decided. NO MORE.
Why blame them when the majority of you simply revert to petty squabbles over one party vs the other party in a never ending litany of failure to provide citizen oversight to your phony "Royals" in DC.
You rebelled to create a country where this chit COULDN'T be repeated. Helllllooooooo! The lights might be on but, is there anybody at home down there?
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