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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: willcousa who wrote (255736)	5/16/2002 3:49:05 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769670

That's the point. Corporations and individuals should have the same freedom to avoid taxes. Unfortunately, you can't do that, without exceeding an income threshhold for professional Anderson-type CPA firm to cook the books. For simple tax-avoidance it's in the six figures. For offshore tax avoidance it's in the seven figures To eliminate any taxes and buy your own politicians it's 8 or 9 figures. Thus, it runs counter to progressive tax, and becomes regressive, where the more you make, the more you can get away with. It just needs to be disclosed, if you are routing dollars away from the treasury into politicians pockets, you have an unfair advantage over the citizenry that pays for this country. That disclosure has to include offshore accounts, such as Enron's.