Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


1 posted on 05/17/2012 5:03:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: SeekAndFind

“before paying his “fair” share to the government that made all this possible”

How did the government make his success “possible”? More likely they impede it at every turn,,


2 posted on 05/17/2012 5:11:54 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SeekAndFind

I have no problem with him expatriating himself. His life, his money, he can do what he wants. Especially if it’s to avoid giving obama more money to waste.

I do, however, believe he should be publicly horsewhipped (a few times) for forcing all facebook users into timeline.


3 posted on 05/17/2012 5:12:21 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SeekAndFind

He owes as little to the govt. as possible. The govt and markets are set up for us. Not we for the govt. Now, if he wants to freely donate something to the less fortunate then fine. But he is free to do so or not to do so.


4 posted on 05/17/2012 5:12:25 AM PDT by HChampagne
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SeekAndFind
There's nothing fair about making some people pay more for government than other people pay. This guy's contribution to society was Facebook. I don't use it, but it seems to make a lot of people happy, and probably few people ever get angry about Facebook. Government is a different story.

ML/NJ

5 posted on 05/17/2012 5:13:06 AM PDT by ml/nj
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SeekAndFind

No one owes anything derived from the effort of their own labor to socialists. We owe all socialists an entirely different debt, but money isn’t part of it.


6 posted on 05/17/2012 5:20:10 AM PDT by Caipirabob (I say we take off and Newt the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SeekAndFind
I don't blame a dog for scratching off its fleas. Similarly I don't blame Saverin for getting away from an even bigger parasite.
7 posted on 05/17/2012 5:21:09 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SeekAndFind

Recently some cash strapped states passed laws targeting high earners. So they move to lower tax states.
John Kerry registered his yacht in a lower tax state than he lives.
Bill Clinton created a foundatation that pays his expenses but is taxed at a much lower rate than the rest of us pay.
Elton John expatriated himself from England to live in Atlanta to get a more favorable tax rate.

This is like the fedgov monster regulating and taxing businesses until they leave the country in order to stay solvent. Then the same feds bash those companies for being “unpatriotic” for leaving the country.
Duh, why did they leave?

What this guys is doing is not out of the ordinary.


8 posted on 05/17/2012 5:30:06 AM PDT by Texas resident (November 6 - Vote Against obama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SeekAndFind

I don’t blame Saverin one damn bit for giving up his U.S. citizenship to avoid the excessive taxes of Uncle Shark.

The federal regime in Washington wastes trillions of dollars on their insane bullshit, year in, year out. Saverin owes them nothing.

If anything, Zuckerberg and Saverin ought to run the federal government since they obviously understand running a business better than the government does.


9 posted on 05/17/2012 5:30:40 AM PDT by mkjessup (Romney is to conservatism what Helen Thomas is to a high fashion model walkway.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SeekAndFind

There’s a good chance that Obama’s 2013 intended tax increase, would have cost this guy $1 Billion.

“Sure”, you say, “If I had $3B in capital gains, I’d pay $1B in taxes...”

But, consider that NATIONALLY, the new tax is projected to return only $5B next year, you might ask yourself, why a single individual she set themselves up to lose control of $1B, only for liberals to waste it buying votes?


10 posted on 05/17/2012 5:31:21 AM PDT by G Larry (Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SeekAndFind

I thought all these whiny big government leftists were also the champions of helping out the developing nations?

It would seem that opportunities Saverin has to invest his billions will be much more effective in the emerging Asian markets around Singapore than keeping it here in the US where his taxes are just another drop in our 1.5 Trillion dollar bucket.

It sounds to me like they just don’t want to share.


11 posted on 05/17/2012 5:41:39 AM PDT by Can i say that here?
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SeekAndFind

I don’t understand the wealthy, why do they not support conservative candidates who want to lower everyone’s tax rate, and even eliminate capital gains tax altogether.

This election cycle is the best opportunity the wealthy have to secure their own future and that of the entire country, they should be pouring money into conservative candidates, but they give their money to the Oppressor. Go Figure!


12 posted on 05/17/2012 5:58:32 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SeekAndFind

Everybody who is able is planning for a safe harbor in the coming storm.


13 posted on 05/17/2012 6:03:02 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SeekAndFind

What he is is an economic-prostitute. He is taking his money and running before Uncle B. Hussein and Uncle Turbo-Tax Timmy confiscate it.


15 posted on 05/17/2012 6:10:34 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Da Bro' Gotsta Go!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SeekAndFind

I take Saverin’s expatriation as a black mark against the onerous US tax system. He is perfectly entitled to move where he thinks is best for him. And shame on those tax-grubbers who covet his wealth. What he earns is his to do with as he pleases.


17 posted on 05/17/2012 6:37:22 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SeekAndFind

That thing hitting him in the butt, is the door.

Bye.

America first.


21 posted on 05/17/2012 6:47:25 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (America doesn't need any new laws. America needs freedom!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SeekAndFind

Funniest thing is that you gotta know he was a liberal until it came time for him to “PAY HIS FAIR SHARE”. Once more the mindset of liberals. Having said that to save tens of millions dollars I am not sure what I would have done. It really doesn,t bother me one way or another.


24 posted on 05/17/2012 7:04:21 AM PDT by ontap
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SeekAndFind
To borrow a phrase from Judge Posner, “This is blaming the victim with a vengeance.”

Government has taken too much in taxes and squandered that productivity on:
1. A seething horde of life long welfare system Gimmie-Pigs.
2. Those welfare wenches were subsidized to breed vast herds of illegitimate and unacculturated Urban Ferals.
3. Bureaucratic AgencyPerson “trough feeders” more numerous than can possibly be justified.
4. The ‘pooklic skool collective’ of unprecedented expense, waste and incompetence.

No surprise that the productive do “Go Galt”.

25 posted on 05/17/2012 7:12:04 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson