Excess taxation and irresponsible spending are the real issues .
There hasn't been a Budget since Obama took office .
Don't like there will ever be one until there is a new president .
Is Tax Avoidance an election issue?
JMCC
2012/08/19 10:16:21
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The increase of people using offshore tax havens to avoid paying taxes has contributed significantly to the fall in revenue to national governments. This loss in revenue has significantly increased the amount that governments need to borrow in order to provide essential services.
Do you believe that Tax Avoidance is an important election issue?
Do you believe that Tax Avoidance is an important election issue?
Top Opinion
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ray 2012/08/19 11:33:39
Some of them have been in Congress for two or three decades and they have been making laws that benefit themselves and their family, and their friends and donors.
They should be punished first for making tax avoidance possible.
"There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much as the business of taxation. The man who understands those principles best will be least likely to resort to oppressive expedients, or sacrifice any particular class of citizens to the procurement of revenue." - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 35
ref: http://www.foundingfathers.in...
No one has the right to take property from another by force no matter what the reason they claim to take it. Needless to say they have no right to then divide it amongst others or spend it on anything without the consent of the individual from who it was taken by force. Rather it should be returned immediately to each individual with interest and penalties to be paid by the individuals responsible for taking it. This would apply to any money taken without the free-will consent of the individual. All moral individuals should insist on peaceful and voluntary interactions between any and all individuals. Compulsion and coercion on those who harm neither person nor property (through destruction, theft or trespass) has no place in a moral society.
Remember that!
Neither the Bill of Rights nor the US Constitution define an individual's rights. They were not even intended to do so.
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Excerpted from No Treason II, Lysander Spooner, 1867:
On the contrary, it is to be considered that, without his consent having ever been asked, a [*6] man finds himself environed by a government that he cannot resist; a government that forces him to pay money, render service, and forego the exercise of many of his natural rights, under peril of weighty punishments. He sees, too, that other men practise this tyranny over him by the use of the ballot. He sees further that, if he will but use the ballot himself, he has some chance of relieving himself from this tyranny of others, by subjecting them to his own. In short, be finds himself, without his consent, so situated that, if he use the ballot, he may become a master; if he does not use it, he must become a slave. And he has no other alternative than these two. In self-defence, he attempts the former. His case is analogous to that of a man who has been forced into battle, where he must either kill others, or be killed himself. Because, to save his own life in battle, a man attempts to take the lives of his opponents, it is not to be inferred that the battle is one of his own choosing. Neither in contests with the ballot --- which is a mere substitute for a bullet --- because, as his only chance of self-preservation, a man uses a ballot, is it to be inferred that the contest is one into which he voluntarily entered; that he voluntarily set up all his own natural rights, as a stake against those of others, to be lost or won by the mere power of numbers. On the contrary, it is to be considered that, in an exigency, into which he had been forced by others, and in which no other means of self-defence offered, he, as a matter of necessity, used the only one that was left to him.
but it NEVER seems to be an issue for this group for some reason...
and for tax cheat Timmy....you know...the Sec. of Treasure to tell the people that he used Turbo Tax...and the program made a mistake... coincidentally in his favor...is an insult to OUR intelligence, and an indictment to his....
If this is not correct, then I apologise for my inaccuracy, but it still was not a lie.
Might I point out that you too were unable to accurately report something that had passed your eyes only moments before?
Secondly, they say "manners maketh man" - be one.
Lastly, from your attitude, I don't believe you are going to trust a word that I say as you have not even done me the courtesy of reading my words correctly, so why not do some real research for once and look it up yourself, instead of regurgitating the opinions of others?
But the true problem is with the government, our Congress, who wrote those laws and decided the rates and make avoidance possible.