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Originally Posted by RockLicker
I'm not necessarily worried about what's fair, but what is sustainable. If the answer to "rich people are avoiding taxes" is "well you should avoid them too" then we have Greece to show us where that goes.
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*** all uses of 'you' are general.
Equally annoying is "well, it's not illegal"
There have been some pretty terrifying things through our short history that have been legal, some still in effect.
"Well I'd do it too" would you if it was illegal, but you could afford it anyways. Is it being illegal the only reason you don't? Or do you think that everyone paying fair taxes is fundamental need to run a society the way we do/want to?
It's not the boogeyman "government's" fault this stuff exists (both tax loopholes and inefficient spending), the governments change all the time and these problems have remained through a lot of it. It's our fault. The government is a representative of us, and if we're too apathetic to actually care, to not make a stink about these types of situations, why would they ever change? There's a lot of powerful forces pushing to keep this stuff as it is, it won't change with people just sitting here going "booo bad!" or "well i'd do it too if I could." Maybe we should be trying to find a way so no one can, regardless of how well you pay your accountants.