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By: Rustydils

Casandra, ” Really”

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By: Roland D. LeBay

@Rusdydils-- <b><i>...as the rich flee, all the non rich will have to pay a lot more taxes. It is a lose, lose proposition</i></b> Not really. The rich have to claim...

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By: Rustydils

Roland, he moved to Belgium, bought a home, and took up legal residence. The mayor of the city he moved to proudly announced it publically. The max tax in belgium is 50 percent, hardly a tax haven, but...

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By: puck

The French wine-shops are in a panic.

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By: geezer

Getting rich people to leave the country is a feature, not a bug, of higher tax rates. Good riddance.

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By: socialistic ben

so where are you gonna move to rusty? If all these rich people leave, all that rich people stuff will still have to be sold… at a lower price. I say let em go. I’ll even help them pack and drive them...

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By: puck

Actually it points to the need for a tax treaty among EU members to avoid this kind of behavior. I’m imagining a treaty where EU members agree to a uniform top rate to prevent tax flight, although I...

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By: auntie dem

I’m liking the idea of a border tax every time they try to re-enter the country. Let them leave but tax the heck out of them if they try to come back. We have a homeland security watch list, it would...

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By: Rustydils

Or auntie dem, embrace capitalism and free enterprise. That is what built the most powerful, most free country in the world, not socialism and a police state you are encouraging

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By: Roland D. LeBay

Rusty- Unbridled capitalism brought us the Great Depression and Global Financial Crisis. Please tell me all about how unregulated Capitalism is great for everyone. As for a “police state”, we’re...

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By: Rustydils

Geezer, at what point in time do you want the rich people to leave. Before they become rich, while they are becoming successful and rich, or after they are very rich. If it is before they become rich,...

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By: Rustydils

Roland, everyone knows free enterprise cycles up and down. We are not talking about no regulation, but modern regulation. Capitalism always has peaks and valleys, the more people buy, the more prices...

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By: socialistic ben

Socialism in laymens terms. Everyone does the same regardless of their abilities or productivity. it is interesting that ou can argue for “regulated” capitalism, or “american capitalism”, that you can...

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By: geezer

Rusty: How silly. People invent products all over the world. They don’t have to live in the US to do so. It makes no difference to me if such products are invented by Americans or someone else. But I...

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By: puck

Rusty – Inventors follow the research dollars, which Republicans are busy mocking because they don’t understand the science. Not much invention gets done after you drown government in your bathtub. The...

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