early in the campaign
Posted on 01/17/2011 7:34:59 PM PST by Bronzy
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, today pledged to make public the confidential tax details of 2,000 wealthy and prominent individuals, after being passed the data by a Swiss banker who claims the information potentially reveals instances of money-laundering and large-scale illegal tax evasion.
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Oh, you must be referring to the rich democrats. sorry
Beck talked about that one evening. One or both of the women are feminazi activists in their country.
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Soros is 0pansy’s ‘little buddy’
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Colonel Mustard in the Library with the pistol!
What do I win!?
early in the campaign
Maybe the headline should read, “Obama Administration (as they did with other leaks through Julian Assange), vows to reveal tax details of 2,000 wealthy people”
Listen to Obama talking about closing offshore tax havens in his own voice in October 2008 here: http://www.panamalaw.org/obama_and_the_tax_havens.html
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Rush “How Many Dems Evaded Taxes in Swiss Banks?” 2/19/09
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_021909/content/01125104.member.html
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February 19, 2009
Story #1: How Many Democrats Evaded Taxes in Swiss Banks?
http://www.reuters.com/article/americasRegulatoryNews/idUSLJ53205620090219
RUSH: This just in. The Obama administration is now going after Swiss bank accounts. “The curtain is being peeled back on the infamous secrecy of Swiss banks. The largest bank in Switzerland, UBS, agreed Wednesday to reveal the names of wealthy Americans whom the authorities suspect of using offshore accounts to evade taxes. The change in policy is the result of UBS’ admitted role in conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service. As part of the agreement, the bank will pay $780 million in damages, and also close all offshore accounts of its American clients. It is not clear how many names will be divulged, but the Feds have been looking into roughly 19,000 accounts, according to the New York Times. The deal could mark the end of Swiss banking as we know it, as many offshore clients may no longer trust the anonymity of the country’s banking system. Prosecutors suspect that UBS helped its American clients hide $20 billion from the government, or about $300 million a year in taxes, from late 2002 to 2007. UBS has admitted that some of its employees “participated in a scheme to defraud the United States” They didn’t volunteer here; they were forced to admit it.
Now, the thing I’m going to be looking for, how many members of the Obama administration, how many high-ranking Democrat, high profile Democrat or Democrat supporter’s names will be on the list of UBS account holders who tried to evade US taxes? We know that Tom Daschle tried to evade taxes. We know that Geithner didn’t pay taxes. This guy down in Houston, this Stanford guy, this guy was all over the Democrat Party. His level of fraud may be between eight billion and $50 billion. This guy had banks all over the world and clients were lined up at these banks to try to get their money out yesterday in the Caribbean, in Venezuela, Mexico City. They were shut down. This guy’s picture was taken with Nancy Pelosi at the Democrat convention. This guy underwrote some program they had that was chaired by Bill Clinton. Pelosi and Bill Clinton both praising this guy Stanford. The level of financial corruption that has become the Democrat Party is breathtaking. Even those who are corrupt and found guilty of it, some have ended up in Barack Obama’s cabinet.
But there was no anger from the Drive-By Media. There was just, “Their people are, too, important, Mr. Limbaugh. We can’t really get rid of Geithner and Daschle, he’s the only guy that knows what to do with health care; he wrote the book on it. We can’t get rid of these people; it’s too crucial of a time in America.” So now the Swiss banking industry probably changed forever, no secrecy, if Obama gets his way on this. It’s an all-out assault, folks. It is an all-out assault. But I just want to see, 19,000 accounts at the United Bank of Scotland. Well, wait a minute. I’m not right when I say United Bank of Scotland. Obviously I’m wrong. UBS is a Swiss bank. I take it back. I watch golf tournaments and I’m getting caught up with the confusing initials for a bank in Scotland. I apologize. I caught my own error. Note that none of my staff caught it, I caught it myself. As far as my staff concerned, I could be left out there dangling all by myself.
I don’t have a Swiss account, either, but 19,000 accounts in this Swiss bank, and will we find out if there are prominent Democrats among these people? ‘Cause you know there have to be. We know prominent Democrats evade taxes. They sit on Obama’s cabinet. This is not a stretch. It’s a good thing that Obama is going after these tax evaders, folks, I just have to tell you. I question, will Obama’s new attorney general be going after onshore tax cheats, like Geithner, Tom Daschle? Or will Eric Holder, the new attorney general, be a coward like the rest of us Americans, will they be going after Charles Rangel and his tax violations? Will you authorize that, Mr. Holder, are you going to chicken out going after Democrat tax cheats?
Lol, I know, I meant Assange but didn’t put his name in.
I guess you missed my point, ergo “to see them forced to abide by the same tax laws as you and I.”
It has nothing to do with class envy. I’m happy to see people blessed.
Given this mythical mass of information he has (much of which is legitimate), could his threat of spilling information on “the 2000 rich” be a first wave of “Nixon’s enemies lists”? He could now accuse to have fanciful data and use it to threaten others, even if he has nothing of that sort. Or even use that mythical mass of data to have documents and videos crafted and then leaked, creating the reality to fit the extortion?
“I’m glad I’m not one of the pathetic pieces of crap who spends my time worrying about how much money someone else has.”
I don’t give a RA about how much they have, just how much they have stolen from the taxpayers of this country.
What is that in the red circle? Assange?
who are you?
We are all forced. That’s why 95% of rich democrats send their money overseas and why this Assange thing is going to blow the Democrats apart.
Changing your user name doesn’t change the argument.
Why not? What makes them so special? Why should I work harder so they can work less?
What - you don’t even recognize Soros, the Puppeteer?
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/30122_The_Soros-Obama_Connection
Julian Assange is going to die, soon.
How do you figure they stole it? Because they worked their butts off and EARNED it? Maybe they want to keep it instead of giving it to weak pathetic people like you that chide others that make something of themselves.
Get a job, make something of yourself, than you will be a producer instead of a moocher.
Madoff didn’t really set up much of a scam. He just copied the business plan developed over the years by our congress. There is nothing he did that they don’t do; day in and day out.
“”””Also, FYI, did you know that 86% of all taxes are paid by the top 25% of income earner. The top 50% pay 97% of all taxes.
source lastest tax year IRS or rushlimbaugh.com”””
And John Kerry only paid $11,000 in taxes the year he ran for president.
I believe the issue is more complex than than that.
There are different types of income, The reason we used to have 90% income tax on the rich was that they used to view income differently. Somebody that collects what they “Rent” income from interest, insurance, financial income otherwise known as the FIRE economy was considered non productive income as opposed to someone who produced something in a factory, farmed or mined out of the ground so they taxed the rentier class up to 90%
Of course nobody wanted to pay 90% so money was diverted to productive enterprises which is why when tax rates were high on the rent class the federal revenue did not increase.
You know the old story where if you had a penny invested at %5 when Jesus was was born that today the earth would be sphere of gold that would extend halfway to the sun. A lot of pennies collecting interest these days and trees only grow so high.
The concentrations of wealth at the top are structurally unsustainable and as an example they have not been this high since the Great Depression.
A productive middle class worker pays a much higher % of total income starting with FICA federal and state taxes. In my situation being self employed I am pushing 60% which the government considers my fair share.
I am sure that John Kerry and the Warren Buffets of the world and others like them with $11,000 returns are not paying anything close to 60% or what would be considered their fair share.
With tax advantages that we do not have they can grow their wealth while we pay the rent, debt slaves.
Makes more sense to me to Tax the unproductive Fire economy enterprises (Goldman, JPM, BOA, ML, Citi etc.) and support the productive companies and workers.
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