Panama Papers... and why nothing will come of it

[bandl]

Uh, your peeps don't do so well in these revolutions....you know?

Who do you think coordinates all the outfits?

Ze Germans?

[YoUDeeMan]

No kidding.

We've become so tolerant of leaders who amass great personal wealth and the expense of the public.

Kings and despots were hanged or beheaded for these type of atrocities at the start of the Enlightenment era. Which is why we can all tour Versailles today.

Would today's despots be so quick to gorge themselves like this if they feared having their necks being placed under the guillotine?

Hey, just a thought ...

What would Jesus, and his followers, do?

[AZGrizFan]

Or we could lower corporate taxes so that the cost and hassle of going through this isn't worth it...of course now there will just be another "Panama" that will get something like this going.

I equate this feel good story to the increase in minimum wage to $15 CA just passed. Yeah it's cool, but it really just increases the demand for cheap illegal labor.

We could lower it to 5% and there would still be tax dodging. Taxes are for the little people.

You mean the 47% that don't pay income taxes?

[Ivytalk]

Delaware's losing the Corporate Race to the Bottom.

You need to move to Panama!

No hablar Espanol!

[CID1990]

We've become so tolerant of leaders who amass great personal wealth and the expense of the public.

Kings and despots were hanged or beheaded for these type of atrocities at the start of the Enlightenment era. Which is why we can all tour Versailles today.

Would today's despots be so quick to gorge themselves like this if they feared having their necks being placed under the guillotine?

Hey, just a thought ...

I'm down for a little revolution.

here you go

[JoltinJoe]

We've become so tolerant of leaders who amass great personal wealth and the expense of the public.

Kings and despots were hanged or beheaded for these type of atrocities at the start of the Enlightenment era. Which is why we can all tour Versailles today.

Would today's despots be so quick to gorge themselves like this if they feared having their necks being placed under the guillotine?

Hey, just a thought ...

What would Jesus, and his followers, do?

Throw them into Gehenna?

[Chizzang]

We could lower it to 5% and there would still be tax dodging. Taxes are for the little people.

You mean the 47% that don't pay income taxes?

But the MYTH that the wealthy are over taxed is still a Myth...

[89Hen]

Using stats and or charts from a partisan organization is beneath you Chizz.

[Chizzang]

Using stats and or charts from a partisan organization is beneath you Chizz.

Okay,
How about the IRS
(true, The IRS is still not entirely credible but closer)

[89Hen]

Using stats and or charts from a partisan organization is beneath you Chizz.

Okay,
How about the IRS
(true, The IRS is still not entirely credible but closer)

https://cdn.americanprogress.org/
Center for American Progress - Progressive ideas for a strong, just and free America?

Yeah, much better.

[Ivytalk]

Using stats and or charts from a partisan organization is beneath you Chizz.

Okay,
How about the IRS
(true, The IRS is still not entirely credible but closer)

Cleets: "Tax me fairly, Jillstein, but leave my fancy Eyetie suits alone!"

[JoltinJoe]

Okay,
How about the IRS
(true, The IRS is still not entirely credible but closer)

Cleets: "Tax me fairly, Jillstein, but leave my fancy Eyetie suits alone!"

Hey, another slur of my people.

I'll be retreating my safe space again. I shouldn't have to hear your anti-Italian and anti-New York Yankee hate speech.

[Ivytalk]

Cleets: "Tax me fairly, Jillstein, but leave my fancy Eyetie suits alone!"

Hey, another slur of my people.

I'll be retreating my safe space again. I shouldn't have to hear your anti-Italian and anti-New York Yankee hate speech.

Deal! And I'm confident enough in my Waspishness to fend off any anti-Limey or anti-Scut remark that may come my way!

[Chizzang]

Okay,
How about the IRS
(true, The IRS is still not entirely credible but closer)

Cleets: "Tax me fairly, Jillstein, but leave my fancy Eyetie suits alone!"

I've only been saying that we don't need to change taxation
we need to change spending
for about 12 years around here...
I'm just tired of hearing how bad the American millionaire has it
That's just not true no matter how much Baldy wants it to be true

And
I really do prefer the British Suits to the Italian Suits
but a guy needs both

[89Hen]

Hey, this is fun.

[JoltinJoe]

Hey, another slur of my people.

I'll be retreating my safe space again. I shouldn't have to hear your anti-Italian and anti-New York Yankee hate speech.

Deal! And I'm confident enough in my Waspishness to fend off any anti-Limey or anti-Scut remark that may come my way!

Ohhhhh, you've now terrorized me and hurt my feelings.

I now demand that you acknowledge your White Privilege, and take sensitivity sessions so you better understand how being a WOP (and rooting for the Yankees) makes you a victim of White America.

[Ivytalk]

Deal! And I'm confident enough in my Waspishness to fend off any anti-Limey or anti-Scut remark that may come my way!

Ohhhhh, you've now terrorized me and hurt my feelings.

I now demand that you acknowledge your White Privilege, and take sensitivity sessions so you better understand how being a WOP (and rooting for the Yankees) makes you a victim of White America.

Well, I'm no G.D. albino, but I'll acknowledge some flesh-tone privilege for you! Sensitivity sessions? Well, to quote J.D. Salinger, I'm about as sensitive as a goddam toilet seat.

[Ivytalk]

Cleets: "Tax me fairly, Jillstein, but leave my fancy Eyetie suits alone!"

And
I really do prefer the British Suits to the Italian Suits
but a guy needs both

I sympathize. I wouldn't want to wear a British suit on Columbus Day, or an Italian suit on Boxing Day.

[houndawg]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrsI0Sw2hq8[/youtube]

This is great fodder for bernie. This story would be even better if hilldog is somewhere in the leaks (she probably deleted those emails already).

She's worth over a hundred million, she's got one somewhere

[kalm]

Reading this thread, you would think that tax avoidance is almost admirable.

[SeattleGriz]

Reading this thread, you would think that tax avoidance is almost admirable.

Hmm. I didn't get that at all. I did pick up the part where liberals are total pussies though.

[kalm]

Reading this thread, you would think that tax avoidance is almost admirable.

Hmm. I didn't get that at all. I did pick up the part where liberals are total pussies though.

Of course you didn't get that. You're holding out for a seat at the table!

[Chizzang]

Reading this thread, you would think that tax avoidance is almost admirable.

I think Tax Avoidance is our Right as American citizens
We should all pay the least amount legally possible - and not a penny more

Tax Fraud is where the cheering and applause should probably stop

[BDKJMU]

Using stats and or charts from a partisan organization is beneath you Chizz.

Okay,
How about the IRS
(true, The IRS is still not entirely credible but closer)

2007 data from before the 2013 Obama tax increases.



2014:

[kalm]

Reading this thread, you would think that tax avoidance is almost admirable.

I think Tax Avoidance is our Right as American citizens
We should all pay the least amount legally possible - and not a penny more

Tax Fraud is where the cheering and applause should probably stop

Why do you think I disagree?

I stole the term "avoidance" from Baldy in another thread as he was crowing the opposite.

Now, please define "tax fraud" as I asked you earlier in THIS thread...