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What the Taxman Wrought. How Confiscatory Taxes Broke up the Beatles.
National Review ^
| 04/15/2011
| George Cassidy
Posted on 04/15/2011 6:56:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Cowman
Perhaps the individual agents of the government could be directly sued though. Should the local IRS office send one of their minions around to a the clients of a business and tell them they had better not do business with them because there is an investigation coming and they don't want to be involved, then, that particular agent could be sued for damages and quite possibly the chain of command in that IRS office as well. What you suggest is possible and I believe it is referred to as a "Bivens Action". I don't know how probable a favorable outcome generally is in these cases, but federal agents have been sued for individual culpability in Unconstitutional actions. It may be worth a look for some legal types. I have just lost a lot of faith in the judicial system in this country in recent years. Ideology often seems to trump any concept of justice, and corruption is quite common.
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04/15/2011 8:19:16 AM PDT
by
chimera
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
04/15/2011 8:22:51 AM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
To: all the best
I am the walrus, I am a Kenyan, I am a Marxist...koo koo ca choo...
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04/15/2011 8:50:12 AM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
To: dmam2011
McCartney Road is at Casa Grande, which is South of Phoenix, about a third of the way to Tucson.
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04/15/2011 9:13:51 AM PDT
by
FrogMom
(There is no such thing as an honest democrat!)
To: SeekAndFind
Because he’s generous with other people’s money, and an idiot.
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04/15/2011 4:01:41 PM PDT
by
OKSooner
(Obama confessed "his muslim faith" on the George Stephanopolous show on September 7th, 2008.)
To: knarf
I think it’s safe to assume that Yoko didn’t exactly help matters.
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04/15/2011 4:02:55 PM PDT
by
OKSooner
(Obama confessed "his muslim faith" on the George Stephanopolous show on September 7th, 2008.)
To: La Lydia
"I'll squander it myself."
- Mick Jagger on moving to France because of high marginal tax rates.
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04/15/2011 4:04:17 PM PDT
by
OKSooner
(Obama confessed "his muslim faith" on the George Stephanopolous show on September 7th, 2008.)
To: SeekAndFind; sitetest
Interesting!
“This story is widely known. But what often gets overlooked is the fact that without the potent tax dilemma, it is doubtful that the Apple group of companies would ever have been founded in the first place. In other words, no super tax, no Apple fiasco. No Apple fiasco, no Allen Klein. No Allen Klein, no lawsuit.”
In fact, from beyond the grave, Lloyd George had forced the Beatles to spend more time figuring out how to shelter their wealth than making music. It is hard to believe that they would not have behaved more rationally, and stayed together longer as a working band, under a milder tax policy.
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05/20/2013 7:36:13 AM PDT
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TEXOKIE
(We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
To: SeekAndFind
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05/20/2013 7:46:20 AM PDT
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bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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