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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:31 am Post subject: Hundreds Of The Super Rich Under INvestigation | |||||||||||||
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Next time some dittohead gives you that famous bullshit line about the corprate and Wall Street super rich Deserving to control 50+ percent of the wealth in the country because they pay all those taxes on it, just smile and ask them if they can spell "bullshit".
Then refer them to a list of the Fortune 500 companies who paid little or no taxes at all last year and the list of KPMG clients caught up in the BLIP scandals involving offshore tax shelters... and this one.
Aw come on... would our global noble aristocracy ever try to shirk their responsibilities by trying to avoid their taxes? Gee, that might even contribute to bad things like "mild recessions" and "economic downturns" and they certainly wouldn't do that. Would they?
And all this time I thought it was only here that the person who exposes the criminals was treated worse than the criminals themselves. 
Two CDs, roughly 700 Mb per disk... that's one HELL of a lot of names and account numbers there.
Ah yes... just remove all of that government regulation and oversight. Those rich folks can always be counted on to do the right thing, eh? Who the hell would SUPPORT this kind of crap except someone who felt that they gained from it or might gain from it someday)? I suppose we could start a pretty good little pool based on the number of these reptiles who will ever be prosecuted. |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:55 am Post subject: | |
| You da man, Heinrich Kieber. | |
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:12 pm Post subject: The European Caymans | |
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Sounds like the European version of the Caymans.But don't they ask YOU on your tax return ALL accounts must be accounted for and isn't there a seperate statement about off shore or forgien bank accounts.
This is an internal issue.I don't think we should be imposing IRS regs on forgien countries although you want US aide you had better get rid of loopholes like this. |
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:54 pm Post subject: | |
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I don't think we're trying to dictate to foreign countries how they ought to run their banks so much as we're pretending to be telling the American upper crust that if they get caught hiding assets from the IRS they're in trouble, just like anyone else that lies about their income to avoid paying taxes on it.
Unfortunately, the only way the overweight felines going to GET caught is if some whistle blower comes forth and rats them out, as in this case. The chances of that happening, the present case notwithstanding, are slim to none and our government regulatory agencies know that. The only reason they're making any noise now is because the news leaked out and they HAVE to pretend to be as outraged as everyone else is. If the US government was really interested in doing something about the situation, they would simply close the damned loopholes that allow major corporations and the top perhaps five percent of the population to DO this shit in the first place. Make them keep their damned ill gotten gains in American banks subject to scrutiny by people acting on behalf of the OTHER ninety five percent. All we're going to get now is a bunch of smoke blown up our various orifices about how they're GOING TO crack down on the crap and then when the headlines fade and the noise and hoopla dies down (gee, like about now, eh?) then it's just going to be more Business As Usual for these scumbags. |
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