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How Sempra used cash-balance plans
I think it would be easier to shut your big mouth than shut down those banking centers. Falstaff, you really haven't thought of the ramifications of shutting down a large banking system, the liquidity problems, and finally the simple mechanics of doing so. You oversimplify greatly because it would take more than a stroke of a pen. You'd need an entire bureaucracy and work out group the size of the Resolution Trust to close down a center. Plus, they would be suing in the world court etc as a breach of sovereignty etc. Columbia was small potatoes, Caymans, Bahamas, Channel Islands, etc are huge. Furthermore, have you considered the negative implications if they closed tax havens? Why should the US insist on other countries enforcing our tax laws? Why should the US dictate economic laws of other countries? Why should money laundering be illegal anyways?— November 29, 2011 11:16 a.m.
How Sempra used cash-balance plans
Hey Falstaff, I'm not answering you. And yes you do need study for established facts, just ask Copernicus.— November 29, 2011 11:07 a.m.
How Sempra used cash-balance plans
How do stiff luxury taxes get us solvent(what about the poor workers who produce luxuries who lose their jobs?)? Please explain the economics of this as I can't understand how taxing more will make a country solvent? Did you ever take econ 101, and if you did, what was your grade?— November 28, 2011 6:16 a.m.
How Sempra used cash-balance plans
So if you make a little mistake, fudge your taxes a little, or don't declare that little freelance job, or pad your expenses a little, you should go to jail...or is that for the other guy? Perhaps you should study the mechanics of how a tax haven actually works and how 99% of their transactions are perfectly legal. Furthermore, how would you shut down the Caymans, which is the 5th largest banking system.....nuke them, invade them, kill them??— November 28, 2011 6:12 a.m.
How Sempra used cash-balance plans
Wikipedia is never a good start.— November 28, 2011 6:07 a.m.
How Sempra used cash-balance plans
Are the most creative tax dodgers the owners of luxury yachts......really? That sounds so 80's. Yachts are the stone age and the world of evasion is really advanced. Shut down tax havens? Do you even have an inkling of what would happen if all the world's hot money suddenly couldn't find a home? Go back to the drawing board of Econ 101 and figure that one out. Furthermore, don't you have a problem with the US sharing your personal income data with other nations?— November 25, 2011 4:59 p.m.
How Sempra used cash-balance plans
What about the scams, made up stories, biases, untruths, misquotes, fabrications(especially by financial journalists) all perpetrated by journalists? Are you willing to eat your own kind? If you told an untruth, quoted someone wrong, got the facts wrong, etc, would you fall on your sword, or is that for the other guy?— November 25, 2011 4:55 p.m.
How Sempra used cash-balance plans
So, since you or some family members are/were in the 10%, you wouldn't mind if your heads rolled for fairness sake? Furthermore, why a 90-10 revolt? What about an 85-15? Where do you get the data to draw the line and formulate your opinion?— November 25, 2011 4:52 p.m.
How Sempra used cash-balance plans
Has there been a study comparing our tax dodgers vs. Greece or Italy? Who has more scofflaws? Is there empirical data? Do Democrats have superrich benefactors, or is it only the Republicans?— November 22, 2011 7:15 p.m.
How Sempra used cash-balance plans
All of which raises a good question. If it's okay for the 99% to revolt against the 1%, isn't it okay for the 90% to revolt against the 10%, or the bottom 51% to revolt against the top 49%? Where does it end?— November 22, 2011 7:11 p.m.