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fasttense

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4. Tax evasion by the Ultra Wealthy is a national pastime

Reply to ProgressiveProfessor (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 07:49 AM

Mar 2012

The New York Times had published the total owed to Greece in unpaid taxes (in dollars) and the number of people owing. It averaged over $400,000,000 for each person. Now it would take me over 26,000 years to rack up a tax bill that high. Even if half is due to fines it would take me 13,000 years to rack that up.

It is NOT the middle class and poor who owe all this money to the federal government. It is people like Onassis or the Waltons who owe almost all the taxes.

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Greece recovers 1bn of the 8bn euros of lost tax [View all] DCBob Mar 2012 OP

they'd almost have to be, barbtries Mar 2012 #1

I suspect there are some great travel deals now in Greece. DCBob Mar 2012 #2

Tax evasion is a national pastime in Greece ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2012 #3

Tax evasion by the Ultra Wealthy is a national pastime fasttense Mar 2012 #4