Posted on 04/15/2011 6:56:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Read tonite.
How the British destroyed their own great country and their most famous artists. I seem to remember reading that the Rolling Stones, too, at one point had to go live in France, of all outlandish places, to avoid being bankrupted.
Well, THERE’S a whole lot of it wasn’t Yoko.
“Spending reductions in the tax code”
“Kinetic military action”
And many more. It’s as if people (excluding most Freepers) don’t understand the implications of a government that uses such blatant newspeak and doublethink...
Freepthinkers doubleplussunbellyfeel Obamasoc.
You learn a lot by reading. I just learned today that TAXMAN was written by George Harrison and not Lennon/McCartney.
But if Paul sang that piece with the Beatles, why is he still supporting strongly, the ultimate Taxman himself — Barack Obama?
“I seem to remember reading that the Rolling Stones, too, at one point had to go live in France, of all outlandish places, to avoid being bankrupted.”
You may have read it in the article that is posted.
Because he's a typical limousine liberal, a leftist hypocrite who believes in "taxes for thee but not for me".
See my tagline.
Didn’t McCartney claim Tuscon as his home? Lennon claimed NYC & Starr claim L.A?
It became a regular cottage industry in the UK to help wealthy folks, show biz types especially, find other places to live. Roger Moore ended up in Switzerland. Mick Jagger got a nice place in Jamaica. Others flew the coop for places like Spain, France, and South America.
So much for "soaking the rich". They just leave. They've got the money to do it. So who gets stuck with the tax bill then? Same ones as always, the ordinary working schmucks. Why don't people ever call these lousy demagogue politicians when they start spouting their "tax the rich" crap?
the Congressional Progressive Caucus proposed its “People’s Budget”
People’s Budget?! Sounds like something Mao Zedong or the Soviet Politburo would have come up with.
Bump for later.
RE: Didn’t McCartney claim Tuscon as his home?
Who is Jo Jo?
As in the song GET BACK :
“Jo Jo left his home in Tucson, Arizona, for some California grass”
Since Ringo chose in California, my guess is, he’s singing about the Beatle Drummer :)
“Half a century later, in his famous 1966 song “Taxman,” George Harrison, singing in the guise of a sardonic tax collector, warns listeners that he will keep 19 of every 20 pounds they earn,”
this isn’t quite right, the reason it’s “one for you, nineteen for me” is because at the time a pound was made up of 20 shillings, each shilling being 12 pennies. 19 shillings would be 95%. I still have a bag of silver shillings kicking around the place somewhere. the money system was changed when I was in junior school, circa 1972 to the 100 pence system they still use today.
McCartney didn’t sing Taxman, Harrison did.
I have been "exercising the mind," so to speak, on how to bring true accountability to those that cause these problems and use government force to do damage to the individual. We have a means of recompense through the legal system (I know but it's all we have) so would it be possible to directly sue congressmen for damages such as being forced into defacto exile or being bankrupted by overzealous taxing authorities. I don't think it would be likely to directly sue any elected official because you get into the problem of making any controversial vote becoming nothing more than lawyer bait on both sides (Although I'd love to see Frank & Dodd on the stand having to justify their power to force banks into bad business practices.) 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.
This is something that would need a better legal mind than mine to work out the details but it would at least bring accountability to the insulated bureaucrats we have now.
Ginkgo Biloba; I’ve heard it helps.
Paul didn't sing it. George did.
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