What would Bono do? Probably dodge taxes

Daytona Beach News Journal Online ^ | September 08, 2006 | RICK de YAMPERT

[samadams2000]

C'mon, some people are more equal than others dont you know?

[Doctor Raoul]

Millionaire Marxists like Norm Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Medea Benjamin, Jodie Evans, etc...

[Cicero]

Are we surprised?

Liberals always expect somebody else to pay the taxes.

Liberals drive large cars themselves, but think that third-world babies should stop breathing to prevent global warming and save the planet.

Liberals are people who know what's good for you--but not for them, of course, because they're special.

[LowOiL]

Christian and Bono in the same sentence irritates me.

[repentant_pundit]

It's so easy to commit Other People's Money

[P-40]

Last year, Time magazine named Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates its Persons of the Year.

I remember the Gates household donated quite a lot of money last year....but how much did Bono give?

[Skooz]

I have no problem with Bono, or anyone else, legally avoiding paying taxes. It's his money. He earned it. He should be able to keep the lion's share of it without the mass vacuum cleaner of government sucking it out him.

Rock on, Bono.

[SALChamps03]

Bono is an idiot anyway. The world has been pouring money down the African sh#$t hole for decades with no results. Africa must eliminate all the communists, dictators, and radical Muslim governments before they will ever prosper. I don't see it happening in this lifetime.

[ECM]

Nor does the author of the article. He takes issue with Bono's hypocrisy on many matters.

[xp38]

I still haven't found the tax haven I'm looking for!!!

[Doe Eyes]

He takes issue with Bono's hypocrisy on many matters.

Please, point out the hypocrisy.

[Lurker]

Bono is a self indulgent hypocrite.

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[griswold3]

Hypocrites.
Rich folks, like Harry Bellefonte, telling us to take care of the poor so they don't have to use their own wealth. The entertainers and intellectuals denouncing the very system that gave them stature.

[KevinB]

Rock and roll ping

(Yet another example of liberal hypocrisy)

[Skooz]

Hypocrisy?

I guess I'm a hypocrite, too. I take every legal tax dodge that I can to avoid being bled dry by the out of control tax and spend machine in Washington (and my state and city. And county.)

[hnj_00]

screw bono and and U2...their music sucks and so do their politics....Bono is always preaching that the US txpayers (suckers) should contribute more to world poverty....the US should contribute about the same percentage that this smug hypocrite contributes....nothing times nothing is still nothing!...what a fraud...just like all socialist libs & dems!!!

[P-40]

Hypocrisy?

His preaching does not fit well with moving his business to another, and foreign, country because of losing a privileged tax-exempt status.

[Hacksaw]

I thought Bono's God wasn't short of cash.

[KarlInOhio]

But do you insist that the people should pay more in taxes so the government can "share" the wealth with the poor, but then hide your own money so that you don't have to part with it? The hypocracy isn't in just avoiding the taxes - it is claiming that more taxes should be paid and then avoiding those same taxes.

This is like the Kennedy family saying that death taxes shouldn't be reduced or eliminated, but hiding their money in trusts and even claiming that Rose Kennedy was a resident of Florida when she hadn't left Massachusetts for ten years to avoid the Massachusetts estate tax.