Has the "Red Line" been crossed?

[Ben Kenobi]

Taxation isn't theft, by definition.

Stealing earned assets from bank accounts is theft. It's called private property.

So which is it, 20%, or 6.7%?

Does it matter? Theft is theft.

It's not like they could target foreign owned accounts only, because most of the dirty foreign money is tied up in accounts of nominal Cypriot companies that are nothing more than money laundering shells.

So that makes it ok to steal from law abiding Cypriot citizens?

[MichaeltheGreat]

Stealing earned assets from bank accounts is theft. It's called private property.

So is income, so is everything that is not specifically designated public property you cow ****ing mongrel circus freak. Ever heard of "personal property tax?" It's been a common fixture of western tax systems for oh, a couple of millenia and change or so, going back to Roman times and before. Just because you live in a cage and are fed raw meat between shows and have never owned anything more than your own feces doesn't change the way tax systems have worked going back to giving over portions of annual crops to rulers. If you don't like it, don't access any public facilities or benefits. So go play your sophomoric word parsing games elsewhere, you ignorant tool.

[DinoDoc]

Why the **** are you people discussing Cyprus in this thread?

[MichaeltheGreat]

This is Poly OT. Since when to people get a cork up their ass about what gets mentioned in what thread? All we have on CW use is two threads based on, so far, he said she said rumors.

[Ben Kenobi]

So is income

So it's ok for me to go into your bank account and steal 7 percent of whatever is in there? Whenever I need cash? Or is that theft?

have never owned anything more than your own feces doesn't change the way tax systems have worked

Has there ever been a tax system that functioned by stealing from secured bank accounts of all their citizens? We'll see a bank run as those ordinary Cypriot citizens will pull all of their money out of the banks - the banks will go bankrupt and everyone who has invested in the bank shares will lose it all. If they weren't smart enough to have sold already. As well they should.

[DinoDoc]

Because there's an actual discussion of Cyprus in the Cyprus thread. And honestly you and Ben *****ing at each other is boring as ****.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Talk to him. He's the threadjacker here. I avoid the little gob****e, until he goes out of his way to post inane stupidity, then he latches on like a lamprey. He's the one who wants me to rub his special spot.

[Ben Kenobi]

Talk to him. He's the threadjacker here

I made a comment about how Europe should take 20 percent off every single Euro account to fund a war with Syria. I said nothing about Cyprus.

[dannubis]

Why the **** are you people discussing Cyprus in this thread?

"My gives a **** is broken."

Unless i can moan and ***** about Obama.

[dannubis]

Ah hell. Syria's ****ed six ways from Sunday no matter what we do. At least the more they use their chemical weapons, the less they have to sell to Hezbollah, and the less that gets dropped on Israel.

Do you ever tire of spewing racist crap ?

[Dauphin]

Taxation isn't theft, by definition. So which is it, 20%, or 6.7%? It's not like they could target foreign owned accounts only, because most of the dirty foreign money is tied up in accounts of nominal Cypriot companies that are nothing more than money laundering shells.

Taxing personal accounts is very different to taxing company accounts.

[DinoDoc]

"My gives a **** is broken."

Unless i can moan and ***** about Obama.

Truthfully I don't really give a **** about the fate of the Syrian people. I just found PLATO's belief that the Obama admin would follow through on any red line talk slightly amusing.

Regarding Cyprus: Beyond any envy he might feel over the tax on savings, Obama had nothing to do with that situation.

[regexcellent]

Speaking of CW, during military science class the master sergeant teaching it was asking us how we'd go about clearing a particular building and he told me "no blowing it up, there are civilians" so I said pump it full of chlorine gas. That earned me push-ups.

[MichaeltheGreat]

In terms of the typical extent of government reach, yes, but here, at least, in most states there is well established practice of taxing certain personal property. Most states' basis for motor vehicle registration is a personal property tax on an average assessed value based on the vehicle age and model. Boats, RVs, race horses and certain other types of non-business owned personal property are routinely taxed.

[Dinner]

"My gives a **** is broken."

Unless i can moan and ***** about Obama.

That sums him up, doesn't it?