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EXCLUSIVE: Kerry, Heinz Family Have Millions Invested In Offshore Tax Havens
Washington Examiner ^ | April 25, 2016 | Richard Pollock

Posted on 04/26/2016 6:00:25 AM PDT by C19fan

Secretary of State John Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz have invested millions of U.S. dollars through family trusts in at least 11 offshore tax havens, according to an analysis by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

The revelation comes on the heels of the release of the Panama Papers, a treasure trove of 11.5 million legal and financial records documenting how some of the world’s richest and most powerful people have used offshore bank accounts to conceal their wealth and avoid taxes.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: heinzrico; iranrico; johnkerry; kerry; kerryrico; obamarico; panamapapers; tafta; taxes; teresaheinz; tisa; tpa; tpp
Taxes are for the little people. We are going back to feudalism where the rich and powerful were exempt from taxation.
1 posted on 04/26/2016 6:00:25 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Much as I hate Kerry, can you really blame him?


2 posted on 04/26/2016 6:02:41 AM PDT by Little Ray (NOTHING THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS TO PAY FOR IS A RIGHT.)
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To: C19fan

Heh...pretty savvy, but risky though. Remember the yacht he refused to pay exorbitant MA taxes on?


3 posted on 04/26/2016 6:06:55 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: C19fan

Using the rules they setup for themselves and other elites.

The little people, not so much.


4 posted on 04/26/2016 6:09:59 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: C19fan
EXCLUSIVE: Kerry, Heinz Family Have Millions Invested In Offshore Tax Havens

If we were fighting this war in the manner we should, every time we get into power we would make examples of these "Do as I say, not as I do" Liberal Democrats.

We would expose their hypocrisy and try to throw them in jail for tax evasion.

5 posted on 04/26/2016 6:10:41 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Little Ray
can you really blame him?

Of course not. There's NOTHING wrong with taking advantage of US tax laws, as long as it's done legally. There's something very wrong with voting for loopholes or of doing illegal things to avoid taxes. He's not doing that.

Besides that, it isn't Kerry's fortune. He's from a relatively poor branch of the Forbes family. It should be his wife's advisors who are in charge of all of that.

I'd much rather discuss why Kerry hasn't been more aggressive about disintegrating ISIS. Instead, he supports the Obama agenda of desmantling civilization.

6 posted on 04/26/2016 6:19:16 AM PDT by grania
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I’m fine with this. I just want this right extended to everyone.

The elites want to hide their cash, while yours is exposed and available for them to tax and spend.

Financial privacy is basic to liberty. It is, for that matter, basic to your personal safety. The same mechanisms that the rich use to hide their wealth should be available to you. This simply means that taxation methods should not depend upon average citizens exposing all of their personal finances to the government. There are other ways of doing it, and no one considers them as long as the income tax is front and center. Remove the income tax, replace it with any number of other taxes, and the need for shelters and offshore secret accounts disappears... though the right to an offshore secret account should be as precious as the first amendment.


7 posted on 04/26/2016 6:40:26 AM PDT by marron
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To: C19fan

The system is corrupt. Elected officials get rich because of their office. Then they make laws to control the normal people.


8 posted on 04/26/2016 6:52:21 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: grania

IF I had enough money in the bank, I’d try to find a safe place for it, too.
IMHO, we’re headed for a period of ‘negative interest rates’ and ‘bail-ins.’


9 posted on 04/26/2016 7:17:59 AM PDT by Little Ray (NOTHING THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS TO PAY FOR IS A RIGHT.)
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To: Little Ray
I don't blame him. And I wish him and his wife will earn a few more million. Just as I wish the same for all hard working Americans.
It's just fun when their exposed trying to hide their wealth and avoid paying taxes on it, legally or otherwise ;-)

Ed

10 posted on 04/26/2016 7:19:19 AM PDT by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
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To: C19fan
I know there has always been corruption, but just watching how our government operates these days is a true testament to how deep and wide spread it has become.

Our government as a whole doesn't follow the laws. I'm thinking particularly sanctuary cities, immigration enforcement, holding corrupt IRS officials accountable, holding insurance/banking executives responsible for setting off financial meltdowns. It is incredible to watch our country disintegrate.

11 posted on 04/26/2016 9:06:05 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: C19fan

Kerry did this with a yacht he bought too.


12 posted on 04/26/2016 9:23:25 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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Here is the story on Kerry’s $7 million dollar yacht.
http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/emily-richards/hannity-kerrys-7-million-yacht-3x-longer-rubios-fishing-boat


13 posted on 04/26/2016 9:27:36 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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14 posted on 04/26/2016 10:29:51 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Ted Cruz. It's what plants need...)
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To: C19fan

bkmk


15 posted on 04/26/2016 11:11:55 AM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44 (Cruz - the Charlie Sheen of politics - 'winning')
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