Late Night Video — Tropic Plunder
John Hodgeman explores the options available to persecuted millionaires for not paying taxes on American income from the comfort of his yacht — Going Galt.
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- The Galt and the Lamers | From Pine View Farm | April 5, 2014
And while I’m at it, fake Libertarian Rand Paul thinks the tax cheat Caterpillar should get an award. Because free-riding on the backs of tax-paying workers is an Olympic sport.
Avoiding taxes is a Libertarian mantra. Would you expect anything less from those nutbags?
Full disclosure:
I was once a registered Libertarian. I regretted changing my registration from “unaffiliated” (or whatever DE calls an independent voter) to Libertarian almost immediately. I lived in El Smear, also known as Elsmere, at the time (early ’90s to early 2000s). Crazy people showed up at my doorstep, inviting me to Libertarian Party gatherings. These people were poor people who would obviously always be poor, because no one would buy anything from their Herbalife/Ozone air freshener/Amway/Amsoil, etc MLM business!
Fuck Rand Paul w/ a huge piece of barbed wire. He’s a useful idiot…He’s just walking around not knowing it.
Apologies to Marlo Stanfield and the writers of The Wire.
Libertarians, Let’s talk about the Supreme Court ruling “McCutcheon” and its future travesty to our Democracy. Free Speech through unlimited caps on Political Campaign Contributions-and loopholes to flood the gates of influence.
Professor of Economics Robert Reich states in a recent blog,
“That’s why we need to (1) cut taxes on average people (say, exempting the first $15,000 of income from Social Security taxes and making up the shortfall by taking the cap off income subject to it), (2) raise the minimum wage, (3) create jobs by repairing roads, bridges, ports, and much of the rest of our crumbling infrastructure, (4) add teachers and teacher’s aides to now over-crowded classrooms, and (5) create “green” jobs and a new WPA for the long-term unemployed. And pay for much of this by raising taxes on the top, closing tax loopholes for the rich, and ending corporate welfare. That’s why we need to (1) cut taxes on average people (say, exempting the first $15,000 of income from Social Security taxes and making up the shortfall by taking the cap off income subject to it), (2) raise the minimum wage, (3) create jobs by repairing roads, bridges, ports, and much of the rest of our crumbling infrastructure, (4) add teachers and teacher’s aides to now over-crowded classrooms, and (5) create “green” jobs and a new WPA for the long-term unemployed. And pay for much of this by raising taxes on the top, closing tax loopholes for the rich, and ending corporate welfare. But none of this can be done because some wealthy people and big corporations have a strangle-hold on our politics. “McCutcheon” makes that strangle-hold even tighter.
Connect the dots and you see how the big-money takeover of our democracy has lead to an economy that’s barely functioning for most Americans. none of this can be done because some wealthy people and big corporations have a strangle-hold on our politics. “McCutcheon” makes that strangle-hold even tighter. Connect the dots and you see how the big-money takeover of our democracy has lead to an economy that’s barely functioning for most Americans.”
The problem with campaign financing isn’t the size of the contributions. It’s that we allow contributions at all.
Only 10% of Americans have ever donated to a political campaign. At least half of the remaining 90% don’t have the means to do so, so they get no access to these politicians.
Christine O’Donnell spent $6 million and lost. You can put a turd in the nicest package in the world, and it’s still a turd.
At least half of the remaining 90% don’t have the means to do so, so they get no access to these politicians.
So then if money = speech; no money = no speech.
Which is the problem — not so much that the size of them is out of proportion, but that they clearly buy influence and focus that can’t be gotten by just getting out to vote.