Gerard Depardieu
Who I have always referred to as ‘That hideous frog” because of all the people to have played him, he is the ONLY cyrano de bergerac never to need a fake nose, is leaving France. (well, there was Janeine Garofolo, but it was her soul that was ugly and not her nose)(Hell, even Toshiro Mifune wore a fake nose as Heihachiro Komaki in ‘Samurai Saga”)
Anyway: Depardieu hands over his social security card and passport to move to belgium, and escape France’s confiscatory75% tax structure. A good idea, for him. Do you suppose other, less famous people will be allowed to do the same? And will others allow them sanctuary? What happens when everyone has the same confiscatory nonsense, where do you go then? When will we realize we must kill the beast outright or at least starve it to death?
Starve Leviathan
Too late. The parasites outnumber the producers, and they are now firmly in control of the government.
This will not end well.
Saw a headline the other day, “Can Tax Avoidance Be Cut Down?” or something like that. Nothing about its being — you know — lawful or any of that. Just: “Why SHOULDN’T the government that gives you everything you want take from you everything you have?”
What? Is there an echo in here, or did I just hear Reagan speak from the other side?
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lol. Nicely put. hey, still want to see if you can uncluster this place?
Without getting into too much detail, for EU citizens there is nearly complete freedom of movement and residency in any EU country plus Iceland and Norway. It is rather like NewYorkers being allowed to move to Maine if they wish.
Also, most of these countries will not collect income taxes if you are resident outside the country and the income is all earned outside the country.
It’s only the confiscatory taxes on millionaires where they will write the laws so that they can still collect. So yes, others can do this as easily as he.
if they see all their golden geese doing this, rest assured they will try to stop them.
2nd wife worked with the IG division of a big federal agency. Few months after she started she came home with an odd look: they’d posted signs all over the building saying “Just because you work for the federal gov doesn’t mean you don’t have to file your taxes!”
The guy TRAINING HER- something close to 20 years on the job- laughed at it, said he hadn’t filed in years and didn’t plan to start.
The parasites are there in a variety of ways, aren’t they?