Comment · Tue, July 24, 2012
Super rich hiding up to $32 trillion offshore, which amounts to roughly the US and Japanese GDP combined. Up to $280bn is lost in tax revenues. Some of the world's biggest banks are involved: HSBC, Citigroup, Bank of America, UBS, Credit Suisse
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So because I did not pick the state with the highest tax rate, I am immoral?
No, you should try to pick the state that accurately reflects which state you operate in. I'll again admit that is a tricky proposition for businesses which have no office and are spread out with each individual worker telecommuting.
The difference is, I am not telling you that you should pay more. I am not making arbitrary judgements about your "fair" share. You are.
No, Arizona is. (Or whichever state that you would honestly say your business operates in.) They're deciding what your "fair share" is, and you're using a loophole to avoid paying it.
Like it or not, the ones you are saying are immoral are the ones that have the money and the power.
I don't think it's proper to suggest that I kowtow to whoever has money and power. If the wrong people have money and power because they're cheating the system, then it's time we take that money and power back. Most of them are never going to see my point either way, since they're too wrapped up in justifying their own immoral actions. I'm not interested in persuading people who will not under any circumstances be persuaded.
I recognize the privilege I was born into. I also realize that is not my government that did it, it's the American people themselves.
I don't think that's a very good/meaningful distinction here. The government isn'…
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It's obvious we are going to have to agree to disagree. Your arguments all sound like I am not paying into the system, which is false. I pay for all the benefits I get out of our system. I just try to minimize the impact it has on my corporation.
If you don't think the government protects you and makes your business feasible
The government protects me and makes my business feasible exactly to the level for what I pay, or less. It gives me nothing that I do not give it. I pay my taxes, so I do not see the government giving me anything, just like do not consider the grocery store graciously giving me chicken after I have paid for it. I get services from my government because I pay for them. I am not being gifted anything. I would be willing to pay more if I agreed with what it's being spent on, but I don't. I don't agree with the senseless wars. I don't agree with cutting science funding. I just don't agree with the inefficiency in which my "gracious" government spends my money. That does not mean that I am unwilling to pay for a better system. That means I am unwilling to pay more for the current one.