U2 Accused of Dodging Taxes

[lawrocket 3]

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So U2 has relocated its business entity to the Netherlands to capitalize on a lower tax rate. For that, they are alleged to be bad.

I say, "Good on them." Let them keep their money - or as much as possible.

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[jerryzflies 0]

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So U2 has relocated its business entity to the Netherlands to capitalize on a lower tax rate. For that, they are alleged to be bad.

I say, "Good on them." Let them keep their money - or as much as possible.

How do you feel about the 50,000 wealthy Americans who stashed their cash in secret Swiss bank accounts?

If you can't fix it with a hammer, the problem's electrical.

[rushmc 23]

They need only make friends with the Obama cabinet and all will be forgiven........

But, I do agree with you

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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[rushmc 23]

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20090303/wl_csm/outwotaxes

So U2 has relocated its business entity to the Netherlands to capitalize on a lower tax rate. For that, they are alleged to be bad.

I say, "Good on them." Let them keep their money - or as much as possible.

How do you feel about the 50,000 wealthy Americans who stashed their cash in secret Swiss bank accounts?

Good for them too.

If you support Obama and his cabinet you have little you can honestly say against this.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[1969912 0]

Yes, good on them.

Didn't the Beatles (or some other band(s)) move their operation to the US at one time for the same reason?

"Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ."
-NickDG

[lawrocket 3]

Yep. Lennon came here for tax reasons. He made a lot of money singing about communism. But hed be damned if he was gonna pay high taxes.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[ryoder 1,590]

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Yep. Lennon came here for tax reasons. He made a lot of money singing about communism. But hed be damned if he was gonna pay high taxes.

But in the end, moving here turned out pretty bad for him.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

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Yep. Lennon came here for tax reasons. He made a lot of money singing about communism. But hed be damned if he was gonna pay high taxes.

But in the end, moving here turned out pretty bad for him.

He'll never make that mistake again.

"Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ."
-NickDG

[lawrocket 3]

Yep. Dodging taxes? He got Instant Karma...

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[airdvr 210]

Who cares if they don't play in Texas?

Please don't dent the planet.

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[Andrewwhyte 1]

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20090303/wl_csm/outwotaxes

So U2 has relocated its business entity to the Netherlands to capitalize on a lower tax rate. For that, they are alleged to be bad.

I say, "Good on them." Let them keep their money - or as much as possible.

How do you feel about the 50,000 wealthy Americans who stashed their cash in secret Swiss bank accounts?

There is a big difference between choosing to earn your future earnings in a lower tax environment, and choosing to remain and and then hiding your income.

[ZigZagMarquis 9]

This is yet another example of why it is liberals are all for higher taxes... they don't pay em!

[lawrocket 3]

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20090303/wl_csm/outwotaxes

So U2 has relocated its business entity to the Netherlands to capitalize on a lower tax rate. For that, they are alleged to be bad.

I say, "Good on them." Let them keep their money - or as much as possible.

How do you feel about the 50,000 wealthy Americans who stashed their cash in secret Swiss bank accounts?

The same way I feel about any person seeking to protect his or her property. Why is government taking the money such a moral good thing. "Taking someone else's money" is, as a rule, bad. Anyone else does it and it's called "larceny." RICO covers organizations that do it.

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[akarunway 1]

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20090303/wl_csm/outwotaxes

So U2 has relocated its business entity to the Netherlands to capitalize on a lower tax rate. For that, they are alleged to be bad.

I say, "Good on them." Let them keep their money - or as much as possible.

The Rolling Stones also. OLD NEWS. Yahoo must be desperate http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_10008939.shtml

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[Andy9o8 2]

My attitude is when they can make a Gibson Explorer sing the way the Edge does, they can criticize. Until then, they can bite my ass.

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This is yet another example of why it is liberals are all for higher taxes... they don't pay em!

Even though it is our patriotic duty to pay taxes. OUr VP says so

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[billvon 3,098]

>Even though it is our patriotic duty to pay taxes.

Who would have thought U2 would turn out to be republicans? Stranger and stranger.

[mnealtx 0]

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How do you feel about the 50,000 wealthy Americans who stashed their cash in secret Swiss bank accounts?

It's their property - what business of yours is it what they do with it?

Mike
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[mnealtx 0]

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There is a big difference between choosing to earn your future earnings in a lower tax environment, and choosing to remain and and then hiding your income.

Hiding the income? How so?

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[Andy9o8 2]

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20090303/wl_csm/outwotaxes
So U2 has relocated its business entity to the Netherlands to capitalize on a lower tax rate. For that, they are alleged to be bad.
I say, "Good on them." Let them keep their money - or as much as possible.

How do you feel about the 50,000 wealthy Americans who stashed their cash in secret Swiss bank accounts?

The Americans who stashed their cash in secret Swiss accounts - also know as hiding that income - if they did it to avoid reporting that income to the IRS, were committing the Federal crime of income tax evasion. Now, whether that ought to be a crime is a separate issue to take up with Congress. But until such time the law is repealed, that conduct is a crime. And that, like it or not, is what makes it the government's business. Don't like that? - tell Congress to change the law.

Relocating oneself to another jurisdiction so as to fall within the jurisdiction of its tax laws is not a crime; businesses do it all the time, and of course it's perfectly legal (at least in the US it is).

[Lefty 0]

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My attitude is when they can make a Gibson Explorer sing the way the Edge does, they can criticize. Until then, they can bite my ass.

If I didn't already have my own libertarian-minded reasons for agreeing with their actions, your reason would be enough. :-)

Provoking a reaction isn't the same thing as saying something meaningful.
-Calvin

[heavydude 0]

Better not catch them with one of those Obama "Hope" stickys on their van, bus, jet., they aint contributing. They sound like awful smart R&R people. Adam Clayton rules the Bass world !

[jclalor 12]

Bono has done more and spent more than most celebs for good causes, good on him if he can save a few bucks that enable him to support more charities.
After all is this not what Jesus would do?

Just a few of his causes:

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ALAFA
Amnesty International
Charity Projects Entertainment Fund
Chernobyl Children's Project International
DATA
Food Bank For New York City
Global Fund
Greenpeace
Keep A Child Alive
Live 8
Make Poverty History
Mencap
Millennium Promise Alliance
Millennium Villages
Mulago Positive Women’s Network
MusiCares
ONE Campaign
(RED)
The Lunchbox Fund
UN Millennium Project
War Child
Wildlife Conservation Society
Witness
Zero Hunger

Not to mention all the lobbying he has done to eliminate third world debt and his work with Bush to provide billions to west africa for aids medication.

[kelpdiver 2]

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Bono has done more and spent more than most celebs for good causes, good on him if he can save a few bucks that enable him to support more charities.

What about the poor Irish government? It's not booming there like it used to. And the dollars (pounds?) he doesn't pay is money the rest of the people have to make up for.