How can dodging taxes be called the American way

[Pyroponce]

...when Americans renounce their citizenship in the process?

Denise Rich gives up U.S. citizenship, will save millions in U.S. taxes, report says - Fox News

Rich wrote songs for Aretha Franklin and Jessica Simpson, but she's best known as the ex-wife of Marc Rich, who fled the country in 1983 after being indicted for tax evasion, racketeering and trading oil with Iran.

I can't fault her for making the economically viable decision, I suppose.

 

[Expat]

If you are a left winger, then it is okay. You have already done soooo much to help society and the world. If you are from the right, then you are just dodging your responsibilities to support the parasite class.

 

[Hawkeye]

How is renouncing citizenship "dodging taxes"? She's apparently living somewhere other than the US and thus subject to that country's tax laws, and does not want anything to do with the US anymore. Why should anyone think that she has a "responsibility" to pay the US taxes?

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Did she ask for her saxophone back before she left?

 

[Scutter01]

How is renouncing citizenship "dodging taxes"? She's apparently living somewhere other than the US and thus subject to that country's tax laws, and does not want anything to do with the US anymore. Why should anyone think that she has a "responsibility" to pay the US taxes?

Because presumably she earned that taxable income while she was a US Citizen. That's like running up a debt on your Visa, cancelling it and opening a Master Card before the bill comes and then expecting that you shouldn't have to pay it.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Yeah, but it's all royalties and the money she got in the divorce from Marc (what a sweet, sweet settlement).

 

[jgreiner]

...when Americans renounce their citizenship in the process?

Denise Rich gives up U.S. citizenship, will save millions in U.S. taxes, report says - Fox News



I can't fault her for making the economically viable decision, I suppose.

If I recall, our CURRENT AG was instrumental in getting her former hubby pardoned by Bill Clinton.

 

[rockhopper46038]

Well, if you renounce, you still are required to pay US taxes for a period of time. Although since she's a big Democrat donor she'll probably get special dispensation. Remember, it's only rich, old, white, Conservative males that donate to Republicans that are evil. Everyone else gets a pass.

 

[Blackhawk2001]

Heck, I thought this was going to be a discussion about how taxes are a necessary evil to support legitimate governmental functions, but it's all Americans' moral duty to pay as little tax as possible to attempt to keep the government within its proper boundaries.

 

[rambone]

I thought this thread was going to be about Romney.

 

[Prometheus]

It's the American way to allow the government to steal as much of your money as possible to give away to those on welfare and to use to kill innocent women and children 2,000 miles away.

I think some people are smoking bath salts.

1776 proves that 'dodging taxes' is most certainly, "The American Way"

 

[Lex Concord]

I thought this thread was going to be about Romney.

I thought it was going to be about the founders

Edit: ^^ I see Prometheus had the same thought ^^

 

[level.eleven]

I thought this thread was going to be about Romney.

If Mitt believes in America, as he says, why does he keep his money in Switzerland?

 

[John Galt]

"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." - Frederic Bastiat

I believe strongly that it is EVERYONE'S duty to pay the taxes necessary only to provide for a government just large enough to protect our property. However, our current taxation/government system is so perverted and distorted that I could understand a person not willing to be "voluntarily" plundered anymore. Not saying I agree with it, as I still love what I believe in my interpretation of what America stands for, but I understand it!

 

[JimmyJames]

"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." - Frederic Bastiat

I believe strongly that it is EVERYONE'S duty to pay the taxes necessary only to provide for a government just large enough to protect our property. However, our current taxation/government system is so perverted and distorted that I could understand a person not willing to be "voluntarily" plundered anymore. Not saying I agree with it, as I still love what I believe in my interpretation of what America stands for, but I understand it!

Outstandingly well said.

Do folks still read Bastiat?

 

[JimmyJames]

If Mitt believes in America, as he says, why does he keep his money in Switzerland?

Do you think there should be a law prohibiting your ownership of property outside of the nation?

 

[John Galt]

If Mitt believes in America, as he says, why does he keep his money in Switzerland?

Probabaly because of the same reason you and I take advantage of tax deductions. It's not only legal, but incredibly intelligent to not participate in the plundering of ones property.

 

[Prometheus]

Probabaly because of the same reason you and I take advantage of tax deductions. It's not only legal, but incredibly intelligent to not participate in the plundering of ones property.

and you'd have to be a effing moron to want to fund the cellphones for crack whores program.

Honestly, what sort of buffoon could support paying in to a system with such corruption and wealth distribution?

I'll tell you who supports theft and wealth redistribution: The ones who are getting that money!

 

[rambone]

Do you think there should be a law prohibiting your ownership of property outside of the nation?

No. The trouble is that he wants lots of lavish spending increases to occur on borrowed dollars. He wants a military so large as to "make it impossible for anyone to oppose us." He pledged to send 100,000 additional troops overseas, policing the world. He wants to expand the Pentagon's bloated budget.

He's willing to spend money that future generations haven't earned yet, but wants his money to be shielded from taxes. What a fraud.