04.02.11
Why Should GE Have All the Fun?
“Let’s say you set up business as a consultant or a contractor, something a lot of people have been doing these days. And, to make this a challenge on the tax front, let’s say you do well and take in about $150,000 in your first year.”
How to pay no income tax if you earn six figures, one of the most popular stories on the web, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal here
“Who says GE has all the fun?” concludes the piece’s columnist, Brett Arends.
So I sent him a copy of the official DD Taxavoidination vid, “GE and Jeff” along with a polite note.
Wrong venue, obviously.
“People get to think what they think,” said GE’s Jeff Immelt in the news on Monday or Tuesday. Why did he not go with the more elegant, “Let them eat cake”?
By empirical evidence, it’s impossible to shame sociopaths.
You throw up your hands.
One nagging idea is to find someone to run a challenge against Barack Obama for the Dem nomination in 2012. We all thought he had something and were subsequently taken as fools.
Matt Taibbi recently said something to this effect at Roling Stone. While only rumint, Taibbi indicated he’d heard Elizabeth Warren was one possibility, and that item is here.
Hit this up on YouTube. It won’t kill ya. A few of the criminals should get to see it, anyway, don’t you think?
GE and Jeff (Taxavoidination) — mp3 format.
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