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Americans More Embarrassed To Be Caught Shoplifting Or Littering Than Cheating On Their Taxes
Forbes ^ | 03/30/2012 | Janet Novack

Posted on 04/03/2012 6:22:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

If you can become Treasury Secretary after cheating on taxes, what’s the big deal, anyway?


21 posted on 04/03/2012 7:03:00 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: suthener

Taxes are nothing more than control of people and theft. Why pay taxes when the govt can just print the money via the FED to the same effect?

THINK ABOUT WHAT I JUST SAID.


22 posted on 04/03/2012 7:04:12 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: SeekAndFind

-—5th Amendment...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.-—

My money is my property. Unless the govt gives me something of equal value in compensation, I’m going to keep as much as I can.


23 posted on 04/03/2012 7:06:48 PM PDT by running_dog_lackey
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To: SeekAndFind

Caesar’s tax rate was a lot less than our current regime. Tax compliance is proportional to the respect for private property rights which includes the overall tax rate, government corruption, and stable rule of law. No surprise in which direction we are going here.


24 posted on 04/03/2012 7:08:58 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est; zero sera dans l'enfer bientot.)
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To: Sequoyah101

>>One good crime deserves another?<<

I am not sure how you came away from my post with that conclusion.

In fact, I have no idea what you are talking about.


25 posted on 04/03/2012 7:15:05 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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To: suthener

In a nation with a long capitalist tradition like ours, they’ll never really be able to kill capitalism. They might drive it underground but once its taken root its like kudzu.

After all the blood and tears spent fighting and losing to communists in Vietnam, they’re effectively a capitalist nation even if the communist government can’t quite bring themselves to admit it. They call it social based capitalism or something. Entrepreneurship is actively encouraged as long as the government gets their cut.


26 posted on 04/03/2012 7:31:26 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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"IRS Oversight Board’s 2011 Taxpayer Attitude Survey, 84% of the public said it is “not at all acceptable to cheat on one’s income taxes.’"

Not a valid statistic. If someone from the IRS asks a survey question about cheating on taxes, only an idiot would respond that cheating is OK.

27 posted on 04/03/2012 7:56:44 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Cheating” on your taxes...hell...that could be considered a civic duty.


28 posted on 04/03/2012 8:13:27 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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A false choice to compare paying less taxes with criminal acts. It's everyone’s duty to pay as little taxes as possible.
29 posted on 04/03/2012 8:17:46 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
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To: SeekAndFind

Probably because the government wastes the taxes they pay.


30 posted on 04/03/2012 9:46:15 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (A chameleon belongs in a pet store, not the White House)
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To: SeekAndFind

Because every American taxpayer knows he is overtaxed!


31 posted on 04/04/2012 1:29:24 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!-Sam Adams)
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