Taxes: Y Asks Why, Boomers Ask Why Not

Investor's Business Daily Editorials ^ | 10 April 2007 | Robert Samuelson

[shrinkermd]

Will generation Y submit to tax serfdom? Don't count on it.

[EagleUSA]

Pay retirees to kill themselves, a program she calls “transitioning.”

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Hey, remember SOYLENT GREEN starring Charelton Heston!?

[al baby]

Sounds like Hillary care old people must die

[DuncanWaring]

Can the Second Amendment and Social Security Coexist?

[vpintheak]

This has got to be a joke.

[DuncanWaring]

It is.

[ikka]

Guess what?

Tomorrow morning a bright young 42-year-old and her husband and child, leave on an all-expenses-paid business trip to Dubai to discuss working with people who want her there. She is an excellent maker of wedding cakes and is in high demand. She is being offered very good money to leave for Dubai, where things are tax free.

More and more young entrepreneurs will LEAVE the USA and not pay taxes, retaining the right to return when they are older or if things go bad overseas. In the meantime the ridiculous taxes paid here, will not be paid by them.

[Vigilanteman]

What a dumbass this writer is! Offing boomers will do squat to solve the problem when were importing third worlders on SSI and totalization agreements with Mexico under terms more favorable than offered to American workers.

A far better way to solve the problem would be incentives for boomers to work until they are 70 (or older). Most boomers got through public schools before they we dumbed down with political correctness and, as a result, can run circles around their modern-day counterparts when it comes to reading, writing and math.

We're constantly told we must import the third world due to our coming labor shortage. We wouldn't if boomers could stay in the workforce longer. And maybe some of the people collecting welfare checks could pick vegetables and clean hotel rooms.

[Paleo Conservative]

More and more young entrepreneurs will LEAVE the USA and not pay taxes, retaining the right to return when they are older or if things go bad overseas. In the meantime the ridiculous taxes paid here, will not be paid by them.

But the US taxes foreign income. How could you avoid paying US taxes, if you retain your US citizenship? If you don't retain US citizenship, how do you maintain a right to return?

[hsalaw]

These 20-somethings can thank the Democrat Party and AARP for their future problems. Pres. Bush tried to do something about it, and those fool dems chained themselves to the statue of FDR - both figuratively and literally. So, suck it up, 20-somethings, until you learn how to vote and can come up with a plan to deal with this.

[EagleUSA]

Sounds like Hillary care old people must die
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Hitlery takes alot of her policy and agenda from Marx and Stalin.

[darkangel82]

A lot? LOL, more like “all of”.

[M203M4]

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

Thanks Wilson. Thanks FDR. Thanks Johnson.

[staytrue]

I think we should outsource the problem. Ship the poor and infirm to china or vietnam where the can receive decent care at a very low price.

[Sloth]

Needs an X-er ping.

[Fairview]

This has got to be a joke.

It is a joke, sort of. It's from a satirical novel by William F. Buckley's son Christopher. Read the article.

[Fairview]

Why can’t anybody read the article before becoming hysterical and commenting?

[KarlInOhio]

Thanks Wilson. Thanks FDR. Thanks Johnson.

You forgot to thank the president who added drug coverage to the already financially unsound Medicare program.

[bikerMD]

"No Soylent Green Soup For You! "

[KarlInOhio]

I will have to look up this book. I loved God Is My Broker by Buckley.

He pulled one of the greatest pranks against the MSM ever. In 1991, while at Forbes FYI, he faxed out a press release that the Russian government was so desparate for cash that they were auctioning off Lenin's body. ABC bit on it and Peter Jennings reported it on the news.