And yet I bet you complain about the local facilities, state of the roads and probably don't even think twice about your daily comute to work , and how much of the services and infrastructure is funded by taxes. So care to explain why YOU should pay less than those others that subsidise your life style? Cause you are special ? Why should your next door neighbor pay his share for the same services you use , and you dodge your share.... Cause morally you use it less, knowing you avoided some taxes.....no! It's all about me , me, myself , and I eh?
People who avoid tax and lecture others on morals are the biggest hypocrites.
Go ahead, do it for greed, and to benefit yourself but don't BS how it's morally right !
The universal issue in this debate is selfish people who pretend tax avoidance is thier right cause they are educated and have the resources to exploit it.... And that the whole problem is the government. First world problems!
Call a spade a spade!
I stated earlier, I don't care that apple is using tax avoidance , thier choice to maximize profit, I care about Tim Cook pretending he and apple care about injustice, social issues , sexism , racism etc, and the hypocrite avoids tax that would find government initiatives to support these issues. Just shut up, stop pretending, and focus on shareholder revenue , cause that's what it's all about.
Wow! What a load of BS. Your argument that avoiding excessive taxes somehow makes someone's efforts to help better social issues is a typical liberal non-sequitur. Like somehow the government is going to suddenly start using money wisely to fix issues it hasn't fixed in over 50 years using more and more of its citizenry's money. The government "initiatives" you speak of to support issues such as "injustice and social issues" have been in place for decades, and in most cases the government's involvement has made the issues worse than they are now.
You come from the very naive place of believing that those taxes are actually being put to good use. Let me clue you in: They're not.
As far as my "local facilities" and "state of the roads" I have no major complaints. If the money were spent on that, and police, fire and garbage it would be fine. But I also know that a large percentage of my tax dollars are spent by government bureaucrats who have no clue how to use the money efficiently.
I understand the benefits of taxation, when managed correctly. And I have no problem with paying my fair share. But the fact is that over 40% of my annual income goes toward taxes in some form or another. We're talking about an amount in excess of $50,000 annually.
And the IRS, Congress and the Administrations of various president have, through political cronyism, power hungry greed and ineptitude developed a completely perverted system over the decades, in which the only way to protect yourself from never ending and ever increasing government taking is to familiarize yourself with their absurd and twisted set of rules, use them to protect yourself when possible.
And your casting some sort of moral judgment on my using my own intelligence and diligence to legally maximize my return on my money is ridiculous, if not infuriating. Do you feel the same liberal guilt about your having educated yourself and worked hard to make your lot in life better than your neighbor's, so that you can have a bigger house or better car?
If governments, all governments would be willing to toss out the giant perverted mess that our "progressive" taxing systems have become, and tax everyone at a flat rate no matter how much money they make I would gladly write my check and "do my part." But that will never happen, because there is no political motivation to do so. So until then I will use the laws as they're written to protect my interests. If you choose not to do that out of some sense of obligation to your masters, be my guest.
I'll give you credit, though. At least you're not hiding your true beliefs. At least you're clear that you are a complete, unapologetic socialist, and you're not hiding behind the cloak of lies that most socialists hypocritically put in front of themselves. There's no doubt where you stand. You would just as soon the government get to tell me what and how much I need to live on, and take the rest. "Damn the rule of law. I decree you have too much money, and you need to be more generous to those around you. So I declare you a cheat and will fine you."
