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- inactive, on 03/22/2009, -8/+106OK, who else read this as "It's Getting Harder to Evade Texas"?
- Panzwhore, on 03/23/2009, -18/+65Unless your being appointed to a position in the Obama cabinet.
- wilf_brim, on 03/23/2009, -2/+31Hell, politicians are proving you don't have to put money in Switzerland or the Caymans. You just don't pay.
- Ymeg, on 03/22/2009, -17/+43How dare people keep their earnings.
- EMGroup, on 03/22/2009, -4/+27There are two sure things in life: death and taxes.
- inactive, on 03/23/2009, -5/+28Well the government needs to steal our money so they can hand it over to a bunch of rich bankers.
- thegrantman, on 03/23/2009, -0/+22It doesn't help when the story right above this ends with Texas.
- KaivenTor, on 03/23/2009, -0/+18For a country that gots it's start in part due to tax evasion, I always get a kick out how many taxes have been implemented in the past 300 years and the sheer complexity of the tax and enforcement systems these days. And by get a kick out of, I mean die a little inside.
- badwithcomputer, on 03/23/2009, -0/+18i read the title as that and just nodded my head with approval.
- unlimitedorb, on 03/23/2009, -0/+17I was about to bury you because I reread the title and still saw it as Texas instead of Taxes, but then I decided to check again and it suddenly changed to Taxes.
Long story short: I dugg you up. - treefrog001, on 03/23/2009, -0/+15How government works, step by step:
(Step 1) Impose Taxes to provide "essential" government services
(Step 2) In the event of a recession, increase taxes so that "essential" services don't have to be cut
(Step 3) When the economy eventually recovers, the government will be flush with "extra" cash that can then be used to provide even more "essential" services
(Step 4) Go to step 2 and repeat forever - blankman, on 03/23/2009, -7/+21no doubt there's a need for SOME taxes, but they tax more and more, and continue to want more and more money. And for what? It's not to save the poor little black kids who can't afford school, no it's billions to go to war, billions for failed programs, billions for domestic spying programs, etc.
They are taking all our money, and still are in debt. Don't pretend its our "duty to society" to pay for all this *****.
You know the Big Dig, and how bad it was built and overcharged? If a contractor came into your house and built a porch that started falling apart before you even got the bill that was much more than you agreed to, would you still pay that bill? No, so guess who still has to pay for the Big Dig? Guess who's taxes are going up in Boston to pay for it?
And that's just one example in a world of crap like this. Loosing money because people don't want to travel as much in a bad economy? No problem, just raise the tolls and taxes on people who do travel. Unbelievable that people stand for this *****. Guess they're too busy posting on digg and watching dancing with the stars, and caught up in their own little 'dramatic' lives to care. - drmangrum, on 03/23/2009, -0/+13You're not alone. I didn't catch on until I read half the article with no mention of Texas.
- cheddaro, on 03/23/2009, -2/+14Evading taxes isn't hard.
Step 1. Get some cash. Probably by working a job where you do pay taxes.
Step 2. Quit your job.
Step 3. Buy things either cheaper than other people can find them, or in large quantities. (Drugs, automobiles, etc), using cash.
Step 4. Sell those things for more cash.
Step 5. Tell our increasingly wasteful government to suck your dick. - dkitch, on 03/23/2009, -0/+12"Ceiling Cat is watching you Tax Evade"?
[insert ascii art here] - inactive, on 03/23/2009, -0/+11Don't evade, send bills and tax forms directly to Ben Bernanke and friends at the fed. Why should you pay when trillions are flying left and right while you re-heat some beefaroni.
- pathouston22, on 03/23/2009, -11/+22If you don't like it, move to Somalia. No government there.
I betcha you won't. - williepepper, on 03/23/2009, -4/+15Careful what you say in this thread.
They will find you. - Barackalypse, on 03/23/2009, -0/+10"Democratic Senator Carl Levin, who introduced an anti-tax-haven bill in Congress earlier this month, estimates that the U.S. government loses some $100 billion in revenue every year because of offshore tax dodges. "
Wow, just think if we had that extra tax money our budget deficit this year would only be $1.65 trillion! Thats almost enough money to pay the interest on 1/3 of our $11 trillion national debt! Why do we continue to pursue revenue solutions to a spending problem? - solid12345, on 03/23/2009, -8/+18Society would do much better with a flat tax, you want to buy *****, fork your money over. Otherwise I keep what I earn and can save all I want and not be punished for being a good spender.
- SauceSpot, on 03/23/2009, -10/+20i can't be contributing to society by working and providing goods or services and keep my money?
- mah2cent, on 03/23/2009, -8/+18In reality, all taxes are government theft at the point of a gun (they will put you in jail for evasion). There are two basic ways to change the situation, through legislation (fat chance of that) and every one refusing to pay or even file. Of course that makes every one just like the politicians (crooks). Neither option is likely to occur.
There is also the hidden tax of inflation caused by the Fed and fractional-reserve banking. This one is really bad because not only does it reduce your spending power (the dollar is only worth 3 cents since the Fed was formed in 1913) and it can put you in higher tax brackets (bracket creep). - inactive, on 03/23/2009, -0/+10Democrats get away with it all the time.
Look at the Obama cabinet.
David Dinkins didn't even file for 11 years. - argoff, on 03/23/2009, -3/+12My sense is that while it's harder to evade taxes off shore, it's actually getting easier to evade them at home. With the wall street and banking disaster keeping the IRS hands full, and the tax revolt attitude going on with the people, the IRS is pretty much neutered.
- solid12345, on 03/23/2009, -5/+13Then why is my city and state's roads falling apart? It is all a joke, America is nothing but a nation of pork projects.
Ironically the turnpikes in my state are privately owned, you pay a toll to drive on them and guess what, they are smooth as a basketball court driving on them. ***** the government. - funkyloki, on 03/23/2009, -2/+10Dugg for golden shower pun being used so appropriately.
- inactive, on 03/23/2009, -0/+7It's harder if you earn 100,000-200,000 per year. If you earn into millions then it's as easy as before.
"Hahaha, Switzerland is not "relaxing" its secrecy laws. It simply stopped opening accounts for U.S. citizens."
Right now if US ask for info about one accountholder, Switzerland will give it up, what they didn't do before without proofs. - Magicmasta, on 03/23/2009, -1/+8scroll up
- inactive, on 03/23/2009, -3/+10>>Why It's Getting Harder to Evade Taxes
Because the goverenment is up our ass like a prostrate exam - TheSpook, on 03/23/2009, -7/+14+6 for "your"? That's unpossible!
- anexanhume, on 03/23/2009, -1/+8While the rest of us pay the percentages required by law? You bet!
- inactive, on 03/23/2009, -1/+8The easiest way to evade taxes is to cut the Big Government down to size.
- waningdelusion, on 03/23/2009, -7/+13We don't allow them to form, we elect them. And we don't elect officials who promise to NOT tax us, we elect those officials who recognize that it is necessary to "loot" us in order to keep this place put together.
- Doubledown, on 03/23/2009, -8/+14Really... taxes are going to valuable services and necessary infrastructure???? Have you seen the roads in the US lately... they have been wasting tax dollars since the passing of the 16th amendment.
- TsuruchiBrian, on 03/23/2009, -2/+8I would not have nearly as much of a problem with paying taxes if it really was being spent effectively.
It's not.
It's being spent to keep corrupt politicians in office by paying off their campaign financiers with no bid government contracts and new laws that are designed to favor them and eliminate their competition.
Our money is going to fighting foreign wars, sacrificing the lives of our soldiers and killing countless civilians to enrich companies like Halliburton and the oil industry.
Our money is going to bail out the very companies that caused our financial collapse. Our money is going to pay the bonuses of wallstreet executives who drove their companies into the ground and who would still be multimillionaires even without receiving bailout money and losing their jobs.
Our money is going to fight an unwinnable war on drugs that is putting millions of people who have hurt no one in jail. We are spending our money to enforce the the laws that make the health problem of drug addiction a felony. We are ensuring that the drug cartels have profits so high that the violence they are willing to inflict on people protecting those profits is staggering. Mexico is on the verge of becoming a failed state due to the power of the drug cartels and the anarchy it creates.
What is our money NOT being spent on? Just about everything you would expect your tax money to be spent on.
Inner city schools.
Healthcare for people who can't afford it.
Our veterans who have sacrificed so much for our country.
Scientific research.
Our government is apparently far too corrupt to spent our money effectively. The bulk of it is reserved for people who are already wealthy and the rest is wasted due to corruption and incompetence.
I really like this country even with people like you telling the people who actually give a damn to GTFO. - ripple123, on 03/23/2009, -2/+8its trickle down economics, man, a shower of gold if you will, upon the poor.
- inactive, on 03/23/2009, -0/+6Its getting harder because most people are middle class only the Rich and Ultra rich have the funds to pay people to find creative ways to hide their cash
- Jem7vwh, on 03/23/2009, -0/+6Not very hard at all to avoid them.
Just start working for the GOV. - tao52nyc, on 03/23/2009, -0/+5And of course the propaganda machine has the people buffaloed into believing that those services are indeed "essential", so as to stifle any argument/suggestion to the contrary. That's the biggest challenge facing anti-tax/small-government advocates: convincing people that "essential" government services are far fewer than imagined.
- inactive, on 03/23/2009, -0/+5There was added cognitive interference due to the other Digg that just went popular which had the word Texas in it.
Second long story: I dugg you up too. - erictheturtle, on 03/24/2009, -0/+5The government knows if I missed paying $5 in taxes, but has no idea what happened to several $billion in bailout money.
- dagnome1984, on 03/23/2009, -2/+7"How dare people avoid their commitment to society."
What do you know we have another idiot conflating society with government. Words with differing meanings are not interchangeable you dolt. - StopTheLie, on 03/23/2009, -0/+5"If you don't like it, move to Somalia."
There was no "Federal Income Tax" in the United States until 1913 and yet the country, for the most part, grew progressively more stable, wealthy and "free."
If the United States deteriorates into anything resembling Somalia, it will come as a result of what the criminal elite, in bed with "our leaders" in Washington, have done with the money and power they've confiscated from the people. - LilJimmyNordin, on 03/23/2009, -1/+6I was relieved when I realized it was taxes. I can deal with taxes. Texas scares the ***** out of me.
- dagnome1984, on 03/23/2009, -1/+6What do you know another idiot in this thread who conflates society with government. Society is a conceptual grouping of individuals that interact on a voluntary basis. Government is a conceptual grouping of individuals that interact with society on an involuntary basis. They are totally different concepts that are not interchangeable.
Yes, infrastructure, because if there was no government monopoly of roads people would not be able to figure out how to lay asphalt. Yet, people on a voluntary basis, build things that are a million times more complicated than roads. Your computer was built without the government. Surly people on their own, by voluntary means, can figure out how to make something as simple as roads. - inactive, on 03/23/2009, -0/+4More like : Step 4: Profit.
- iXam, on 03/23/2009, -1/+5Soon only the richest can afford to evade taxes.
- Speedy7, on 03/22/2009, -3/+7Dugg for Pokemon reference.
- MtheoryX, on 03/24/2009, -1/+5@homercles337: That's NOT the only example, and you ***** damn well know it.
- Barackalypse, on 03/23/2009, -1/+5The Government receives $2.186 trillion a year, 20% of that is $440 billion. Our national debt is $11 trillion and our projected budget deficit this year is $1.75 trillion, do really think $440 billion represents a tipping point in relation to those numbers? The Government will spend whatever it wants to spend, how much tax revenue it gets doesn't constrain the Feds at all.
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