True, but I have very little sympathy for current right-wing whinging about taxes -- despite being someone who aspires to wealth, I think the Buffet rule is a pretty good idea.
That is, while you're correct, I am still of the opinion that Romney's various tax dodges are scandalous. His SEP-IRA alone should have been a much bigger issue than it was -- that appears to be gaming the system to extremes at best, and insider trading at worst.
Yes, this does come into some debateable issues of appropriate taxation. But by and large, my view of the ethics is fairly clear: Romney and his ilk are taking advantage of the system to an unreasonable degree. Not quite "tax-free", no -- but low enough for me to be comfortable with my poetic license.
(And feel free to remind me of this post if I do wind up making my millions at some point. Never a bad thing to have some perspective injected...)
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Date: 2012-11-26 10:35 pm (UTC)That is, while you're correct, I am still of the opinion that Romney's various tax dodges are scandalous. His SEP-IRA alone should have been a much bigger issue than it was -- that appears to be gaming the system to extremes at best, and insider trading at worst.
Yes, this does come into some debateable issues of appropriate taxation. But by and large, my view of the ethics is fairly clear: Romney and his ilk are taking advantage of the system to an unreasonable degree. Not quite "tax-free", no -- but low enough for me to be comfortable with my poetic license.
(And feel free to remind me of this post if I do wind up making my millions at some point. Never a bad thing to have some perspective injected...)