Do you think these guys bitched about their taxes?

[Octafish]

[whathehell]

1. No and hell No..

[Octafish]

4. Here's what a very patriotic American said about taxes...

"Taxes are the price we pay for civilization." -- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

[whathehell]

9. Precisely. n/t

[Billy Burnett]

2. No. But these guys did.

[Octafish]

6. They certainly taught today's know-nothings all about avoiding civic responsibility...

Birds of a feather...

Hitler a tax dodger, says expert

Friday, December 17, 2004 Posted: 1311 GMT (2111 HKT)

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- Adolf Hitler spent years evading taxes and owed German authorities 405,000 Reichsmarks -- equivalent to $8 million today -- by the time his tax debts were forgiven soon after he took power, a researcher says.

Klaus-Dieter Dubon, a retired Bavarian notary and tax expert, said Friday he found Hitler's tax records in a Munich archive. They show the Nazi dictator battled tax collectors for eight years before becoming chancellor in 1933.

"Hitler owed tax but didn't pay it, full stop," Dubon told Reuters on Friday. "He was constantly challenging tax office rulings on his income tax between 1925 and 1932, just like a common citizen. After taking power he didn't pay tax anymore."

Hitler's record as a dictator who started World War II and sent millions of people to their deaths in concentration camps is well known. But the unearthed records show a new, previously undocumented side to his life: as an ordinary tax evader.

Dubon found that Hitler earned 1.232 million Reichsmarks in 1933 from sales of "Mein Kampf" -- his book outlining his doctrine of German racial supremacy and ambitions to annex vast areas of the Soviet Union.

He should have paid tax on 600,000 Reichsmarks of that income but didn't, the researcher found.

CONTINUED...

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/12/17/hitler.tax/index.html

Gee. The guy who wrote off Hitler's tax debt got a promotion.

[el_bryanto]

3. That was WW2 (I believe) - one of our least controversial wars

You should put up pictures of soldiers from Vietnam. Or Korea. Or Iraq/Afghanistan. See if it has the same effect.

Which presumably it wouldn't.

Bryant

[Octafish]

10. It should. Here's some classic rock on the subject:

Fortunate Son

Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Yeah, the red, white, and blue
When the band plays 'Hail To The Chief'
Yeah, they'll point the cannon at you

It ain't me, it ain't me
I'm no millionaire's son
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one

Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Well, they help themselves, yeah
When the taxman comes to the door
House looks a like a rummage sale

It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no millionaire's son
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one, no

Some folks inherit star spangled eyes
Yeah, when they send you down to war
Well, when you ask them how much you should give
Yeah, it's always more, more, more

It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no senator's son
It ain't me, it ain't me
I'm no fortunate one

It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no military son
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate son
Take it away...

- John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival

[Gaedel]

5. At the time

Military pay was tax exempt in WWII.

In Vietnam, enlisted pay was tax exempt and officer pay was tax exempt for the first $500 per month (which at the time exempted all but the more senior officers).

[Octafish]

11. Patriotic Americans don't mind seeing their taxes put to good use.

Pay for the men and women who've kept us free is an excellent example.

Back in th 1930s, the cynical minds of warmongers and traitors thought using our veterans to overthrow FDR.

Of course, a heroic veteran stopped them.

[sammytko]

7. How much can the average teabagger pay in taxes?

Not much. When I was working, I paid more than my minions (joking term we used) since I had zero dependents. I didn't care. I'd rather pay a bit more than take care of kids. Kids are much more expensive than paying taxes.

And said minions always received thousands in refunds. Still didn't care.

Now that I am retired, I still pay taxes on my military pension, but its such a small amount. Heck I pay more to get my hair and nails done each month - so why the fuss?

Maybe they are whinng about local taxes - hello what can the pres do? Lower your federal taxes and the difference has to be made up somewhere peoples.

I bet these same people can't do a household budget either.

[fascisthunter]

8. no... only those that don't serve nor sacrifice much at all complain about taxes

oh... and when those soldiers get back from war, the same ones bitching about taxes are the ones supporting the idea that the government shouldn't pay soldier's benefits. They are also the first to co-opt the flag to take credit for something they did nothing for.