US probes offshore tax evasion - 26 July 2008

[harrisonconstantinou]

fucking swiss mother fuckers!!!!

[jesoby]

society could not function without tax and everyone should pay what is due, in return the govt should use it wisely which does not include encouraging the work shy, giving aid to countries that have billionaires or paying for overpriced defence contracts.

[u2hubbard]

I'm not for defending the rich, but I feel many of the tax laws towards the poor and middle class are not right and people in that bracket should be able to hide their money as well, lol. Can a society function without taxes?

[AthenasConquest]

@u2hubbard yes the government can function within constitutional guidelines,the government has a spending problem there is plenty of income

[bucko60]

i fucking love it when people don't pay taxes. i quit paying income tax 10 months ago....

[GuildF40]

Out of all the accounts they only got 4001 names.........

Hmmm good old USA, don't make deals with terrorists..............

All comes down to their interpretation of terrorism at that particular time............

Govt. divides Rich & Poor and gets fat in the middle.

BUY GOLD & SILVER NOW

[44774477ric]

The US treasury is abunch of foriegn banker thieves stealing us tax funds every year and throwing to there special interest companies like haliburton to waste and steal ending up in the pockets of more bankers just sick scams on Americans.....fuck the IRS theives

[Silberdachs]

What reason is there, other than for deliberate tax evasion, do these companies have so many business subsidiaries in these tax havens?

This is serious scandal.

The CEO's and CFO's of these swindler companies should be named and shamed. Greedy cheating criminal scumbags, every single last one of them..

[kipptumor]

@Silberdachs No shit - I don't know why they bitch and moan about the tax rate at all. Seems that it would be an arbitrary issue anyway with their creative accounting and off-shore accounts etc. Amazing, isn't it?

[17Spartacus76]

1. The $100 billion dollar figure is pulled out of their asses.

2. The Federal budget is over $3 trillion dollars, this amounts to barely 3.3% of that.

More political quackery.

[cinderblue]

Sure it is. How on earth could they know the actual figure? It's offshore!

The media needs some number high enough, yet still arbitrary, that will get some attention from tax payers.

[paulsviplist]

So what bank is most private and safe from governments?

[PeekaPeep]

All it would take to immediately end this economic crisis here in the US would be to seize control of all these offshore accounts and tax havens. Believe me, the amount of money in those places is staggering-enough to bail out a good deal of these so-called "third-world" nations. Oh, and ending all this foreign occupation and cutting back the military defense budget down to a quarter of a billion wouldn't hurt either...

>;-)

[letto2103]

this great country (USA) should learn a thing or two from this other very small one (CHILE)... in this 'lil' country, 30 years ago the gov. applied big taxes to imported things and that helped the economy, big time!

if things from china were more expensive over 'made in usa'... what would you buy? that's what was done in CHILE... learn, learn!

may God help the USA and its people.

[17Spartacus76]

You're kidding right? Chile's economy collapsed. Double digit unemployment, triple digit inflation. Yeah, what a great idea!

[letto2103]

What part of 30 years ago you didn't understand?

It was a different time but things were done then and it helped.

Now, you are right, after so many years of socialism, things are going down hill... what a surprise!

[17Spartacus76]

What possible good could come from cutting everyone in the country off from imports???

The USA is utterly dependent on them. It's never a good idea to do that at any time. Your idea would be catastrophic for the USA, just as it was with Chile.

[core1976scotland]

It doesnt surprise me! greedys f**ks.

[annarboriter]

There are laws that bolster the legitimacy of the criminals in the rulingclass, and those that punish the actions of the lower classes. "Steal a little and they throw you in jail; steal a lot and they make you king."

[mrshutter77]

And these Congressmen do not pay jack shit into social security, American people do, no one to makes over $100,000 pays into social security, but they want to collect it when they turn 65.

[eversincealways]

"And these Congressmen do not pay jack shit into social security, American people do, no one to makes over $100,000 pays into social security, but they want to collect it when they turn 65."

Like McCain.

[mrshutter77]

Exactly, and American Banks are probably just as if not more responsible for evading taxes then the swiss ones, yes they don{t seem to be making any move on american banks or Dick Cheney for that matter because they get their hands greesed. These two European banks, if they were smart, they would know that in America to get your way you need to bribe politicians. Congress is there for one thingÑMake Money.

[dragun39]

I think Congress is trying to evade the focus on their fraudulent wars

[bludrums]

Then start with Dick Cheney he moved his money offshore in 2001.Same folks that covered for the Nazi's!

[lastnymleft]

Smoke and mirrors. What a crock. Here Congress is, jumping up and down about $100B, and Bush has just blown $3T and counting on his fake War Of Terror. "Watch our good-looking magician's assistant folks, not the magician"

[moejardines]

No offense, but 100 Billion isn't chump change. $3T is the eventual estimated cost of the war figuring in future benefits for the troops. I'd wager it will be more.

Perhaps it will shine a spotlight on the VAST disparity in wealth in the world. Taxes on the super wealthy are repaid ten fold in their security from torch carrying mobs. The taxes cause them zero hardship, unlike taxes on the little people.

[lastnymleft]

The thing is, whether it's $1M, $1B, or $100B, they have just wasted **THIRTY TIMES** that on a useless war. The $100B is a figure they plucked out of their butt. They'll throw a few sacrificial evaders that have pissed them off, and ultimately rake in a couple of billion dollars, total. Less than $10B, I bet you. And the sheeple will think, "What a great job our representatives are doing!" all the while wasting HUNDREDS of times more money, and calling for ever more tightening of our freedoms.

[ratonnewmex]

they don't give a rats ass on how much they are spending or who they are murdering...i wonder what all that white trash in Congress spends on an avg lunch at the local Cuntry Club? uh? i just wonder....100$ without the booze? and i wonder how much their whores and their booze stocked limos on Penn Ave cost? uh? i just wonder....

[truindep]

lastnymleft-very true but it doesnt negate the fact that this is bs!

[clockworkorange1986]

EXACTLY!

[mrzack888]

5th Amendment, these corrupt fuckers always plead the Fif.

[Incense01]

Tax evasion, what a big problem we have.

[ratonnewmex]

typical...boy, hope Obama has janitorial experience for all this white trash....

[skinnychef]

haha! white collar trash! haha!

but obama is cfr and of the same cloth....

[ratonnewmex]

and? so? please don't tell me you're another DUMB Walmart Whale and you don't know that the elections are rigged...have been for some time now. didn't ya know?

[eversincealways]

"and? so? please don't tell me you're another DUMB Walmart Whale and you don't know that the elections are rigged."

Why are you being an asshole to a fellow patriot? Obviously, he/she is not dumb.

[skinnychef]

vitriolic pap!

mccain and obama are two sides of one coin.

[ratonnewmex]

hey, that sure is a strange middle name you have...vitriolic pap? not sure what it is but it sure sounds good ferya.... and may I ask? why do you talk like you have helium in your throat....maybe it's all the Px drugs and flouride in your water.....wierd. by by