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2006-04-16 Home Front: Politix

Tax News - Boston Globe Sez Taxes Are Wonderful

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Posted by Raj 2006-04-16 09:13|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 There's not too little savings - world wide there's a savings glut - what's lacking are low-risk investment opportunities.

Posted by 6 2006-04-16 10:01|| 2006-04-16 10:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Damn the lot of them. They're so frigging willing to be generous with someone else's money. I just wrote both my Senators and my Congresscritter that they better wake up and get a clue about what happens when you have selective enforcement of the laws. The question I posed to them was "what happens when Americans see illegal immigrants blithely ignoring the laws and not getting caught? Do you realize that the first thing Americans are going to think is 'I don't like the laws taxing me to death. If the Mexes can ignore the immigration laws, why shouldn't I ignore the tax laws that are beggaring me?'"

I'll be interested in seeing if I get an answer to that question. I suspect I won't--from them. What I suspect I will see is some newspaper report soon that says tax noncompliance is at or approaching its highest point ever.

It's pretty straightforward--perhaps too straightforward for the Congress: if you want people to believe that the laws really pertain to everyone, the authorities damned well better be seen to be enforcing them on everyone equally. Failure to enforce the immigration laws directly equates to a failure to comply with the tax laws. If you don't believe this, look at how Rudy G. cleaned up NY. He made sure people saw the city was enforcing the small laws. That got the message across. The Feds not enforcing immigration law sends exactly the opposite message.

Posted by mac 2006-04-16 11:05|| 2006-04-16 11:05|| Front Page Top

#3 why do I suspect that Teddy pays a lower percentage than I do. Heck, he probably even pays less than I do. Wonderful!

Posted by 2b 2006-04-16 12:09|| 2006-04-16 12:09|| Front Page Top

#4 there's absolutely nothing preventing this writer, heck, even the entire Boston Globe from contributing at a MUCH higher rate, say 90%. I say they should put their money where their mouth is and go first

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-04-16 12:18|| 2006-04-16 12:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Funny you should mention that, Frank G - Line 22 of the Mass. state return has an option to pay income taxes at the higher rate (5.85% instead of 5.3%). Care to guess how many good liberals opted for this?

You get the picture, here are the rich and famous expressing their guilt about not paying enough in taxes. Why not let them and others in every country including Nepal pay more if they choose to. In America, in the States of Massachusetts, Arkansas and Virginia, tax payers can pay more if they so desire. How many paid more? Not many, according to the Department of Revenue. In 2001, Massachusetts cut its top income tax rate to 5.3% but let its guilty under-taxed rich pay the old rate of 5.85%. In 2003, 1,488 paid the higher optional rate, out of a total of 3,218,572 tax payers. Yes, one person in 2,163 paid the slightly higher rate. Wow! Most had expected about one in 100 to do so.

Fucking hypocrites, all of them...

Posted by Raj 2006-04-16 12:51|| 2006-04-16 12:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Just piling on now...

What really showed politicians double-speak was the revelation that John Kerry - with all his support for higher taxes and in spite of being married to one of Americas richest ladies too paid the States lower rate.

Posted by Raj 2006-04-16 13:05|| 2006-04-16 13:05|| Front Page Top

#7 You know, at least Massachusetts had the guts to walk the walk and pass their own program to insure those who don't have insurance. It's really a laugh to listen to states like New York and California belly ache about how the federal governmment should do this and the federal government should do that. Switzerland is far from perfect, but it's a country of 8 million people, about the 3/4 the size of the New York or LA metro areas, and it manages to fund a sophisticated public transportation system, produce streets that don't have potholes, and care for its elderly and poor.

Posted by Perfessor 2006-04-16 15:18|| 2006-04-16 15:18|| Front Page Top

#8 What you may not understand is that Mass expects to get more Fed money to finance this wonderful program.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2006-04-16 15:24|| 2006-04-16 15:24|| Front Page Top

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