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Taxing Questions
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For all the high-earners out there, this is sort of the opposite-of-Christmas season: tax time. You can hear all the moaning and groaning in the media and the blogosphere.
I came across an interesting piece titled "You Paid Your Taxes? Sucker." and it seems to be encouraging people to use foreign tax havens to hide their money. What I don't get, though, is the accompanying graphic which I read as saying that there has been substantial increases in the use of this evasion from the year 2003 to 2006.
We know that the Bush years have been almost unprecedented in slashing taxes and keeping them down, and I would think that there would be less pressure for Americans to evade taxes. One could understand it better in a higher-tax era. Doesn't this suggest something questionable? Whatever one might think of social programs, including general social security programs, we have wars to pay for.
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For all the high-earners out there, this is sort of the opposite-of-Christmas season: tax time. You can hear all the moaning and groaning in the media and the blogosphere.
I came across an interesting piece titled "You Paid Your Taxes? Sucker." and it seems to be encouraging people to use foreign tax havens to hide their money. What I don't get, though, is the accompanying graphic which I read as saying that there has been substantial increases in the use of this evasion from the year 2003 to 2006.
We know that the Bush years have been almost unprecedented in slashing taxes and keeping them down, and I would think that there would be less pressure for Americans to evade taxes. One could understand it better in a higher-tax era. Doesn't this suggest something questionable? Whatever one might think of social programs, including general social security programs, we have wars to pay for.