I’m happy for everyone who manages to shelter their money from the long fingers of government even if it’s questionable like this. While taxes are necessary in some form to fund basic governmental functions, already today this monster has an expanse far beyond that which is healthy economically or even morally right for those working and paying for this system be it most of Europe or N. America. An example: taxes such as an inheritance or capital gains tax are de facto a second tax slapped on something already taxed once before and justified through some class warfare rhetoric. It makes absolutely no sense, it’s not morally or rationally justifiable and the “so called culprits” are usually not F1 race car drivers with millions; rather Schmidt who worked himself to death in a factory and wants to pass something on to his kids, with his friendly government asking for 1/3 of it after he already paid taxes on it to begin with. Some taxes should not be, and capital gains as well as inheritance taxes are two examples.
1. I agree with your argumentation about the taxation of capital gains or even the income from interest rates The taxation is wrong or immoral in my opinion given the fact that taxes had to be payed to build this capital.
2. I do not agree with people violating laws. Who am i or any other individual that i can decide whether i want to follow a certain law or not. Some strange people might think that they love children while they abuse them or perhaps some people do not like the high prices of gas or a new mobilephone. Why pay for it?
We live in a democracy with a rule of law. There are clear ways how to change laws and we can vote for lower taxes but we also have to accept if a majority of people votes in a different way that´s democracy. In a society a individual can not separate the laws he wants to follow from the ones he does not like because as said who knows which laws your neighbor does not like.
I hope these criminals will get a huge punishment and i know what i am talking about i worked several years for german banks in Luxemburg.
A last word about mr schumacher beckenbauer netzer... They should think for a while about the fact that they would not have earned this huge amount of money if they were poles from austrian or switzerland because of so many reasons.