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OK MM – if it helps, I can refine my generalization of restaurant owners as follows: “The rate of income tax evasion among restaurant owners is significantly higher than among highly compensated salaried employees.” But again, don’t get hung up on restaurants, they’re just an example. Think of guys who sell knockoff yankees caps in the park if it helps. Or DIBS’s rent boys. Surely you don’t object to my making generalizations about how much income tax these people pay? Sometimes stereotypes are completely appropriate.
As for the distinction between hiding cash and the use of offshore vehicles – I think you have a serious misunderstanding of the tax position that most highly compensated employees of above-board businesses find themselves in. Most of them actually just get their full income reported to the IRS and pay a freakload of taxes on it.
benson, for one thing virtually ALL shops and restaurants provide water for dogs there. Now that you mention it, there are an inordinately large number of people with dogs there.
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A statement like “all restaurant owners are tax cheats” is in the same category as “all nurses are vile”, “all bikers are idiots”, “all artists are lazy trust funders”, “all housing lotteries are fixed”, and other blanket statements of fallacy. ALL of any group are not anything. It’s grossly innacurate, and immediately leads to the stoppage of further intelligent discussion of the topic, as you have to waste time arguing about the accuracy of the statement.
LFMAO i love how four out of the five examples you just stated came from me. here’s another one for ya… ALL your posts are smarmy and overly PC and come across very Whitley Gilbert-ish, except that she wasnt very PC tho, and except whitley wouldnt be caught dead in brooklyn! oh wait, you probably have no clue who she is because television is beanthe you :-/
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Too bad you can’t pop out babies to get the government to pay for your habit.
i KNOW that’s so f’ed up!!! i could have had a kid at 15.. the kid would now be 18 and get move out on their own tho id probably already be a grandmother twice over. wow that is scary sounding
Lechecal, I don’t have a dog in this race, and am not acting in defense of restaurant owners, over everyone else. I just don’t like generalizations, as a rule. A statement like “all restaurant owners are tax cheats” is in the same category as “all nurses are vile”, “all bikers are idiots”, “all artists are lazy trust funders”, “all housing lotteries are fixed”, and other blanket statements of fallacy. ALL of any group are not anything. It’s grossly innacurate, and immediately leads to the stoppage of further intelligent discussion of the topic, as you have to waste time arguing about the accuracy of the statement.
I also don’t see how pocketing the cash from unrecorded transactions is any different than hiding your assets in a dummy corporation, or an off-shore bank account. One is old school, not very sophisticated, the other requires high priced legal and accounting help. When it comes to paying one’s fair share of taxes, both are just as wrong.
OK MM – if it helps, I can refine my generalization of restaurant owners as follows: “The rate of income tax evasion among restaurant owners is significantly higher than among highly compensated salaried employees.” But again, don’t get hung up on restaurants, they’re just an example. Think of guys who sell knockoff yankees caps in the park if it helps. Or DIBS’s rent boys. Surely you don’t object to my making generalizations about how much income tax these people pay? Sometimes stereotypes are completely appropriate.
As for the distinction between hiding cash and the use of offshore vehicles – I think you have a serious misunderstanding of the tax position that most highly compensated employees of above-board businesses find themselves in. Most of them actually just get their full income reported to the IRS and pay a freakload of taxes on it.
benson, for one thing virtually ALL shops and restaurants provide water for dogs there. Now that you mention it, there are an inordinately large number of people with dogs there.
quote:
A statement like “all restaurant owners are tax cheats” is in the same category as “all nurses are vile”, “all bikers are idiots”, “all artists are lazy trust funders”, “all housing lotteries are fixed”, and other blanket statements of fallacy. ALL of any group are not anything. It’s grossly innacurate, and immediately leads to the stoppage of further intelligent discussion of the topic, as you have to waste time arguing about the accuracy of the statement.
LFMAO i love how four out of the five examples you just stated came from me. here’s another one for ya… ALL your posts are smarmy and overly PC and come across very Whitley Gilbert-ish, except that she wasnt very PC tho, and except whitley wouldnt be caught dead in brooklyn! oh wait, you probably have no clue who she is because television is beanthe you :-/
*rob*
“What makes it so dog-friendly?”
Pete isn’t there.
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Too bad you can’t pop out babies to get the government to pay for your habit.
i KNOW that’s so f’ed up!!! i could have had a kid at 15.. the kid would now be 18 and get move out on their own tho id probably already be a grandmother twice over. wow that is scary sounding
*rob*
DIBS;
I just saw this on the monitor in the elevator of my office:
“Dog Fancy magazine names Provincetown, Mass. the most dog-friendly locality in the US”.
What makes it so dog-friendly?
By dirty_hipster on July 12, 2010 1:27 PM
“Did anyone see Lady Gaga in MSG or Rockefeller Plaza???”
i did
GOTD
Lechecal, I don’t have a dog in this race, and am not acting in defense of restaurant owners, over everyone else. I just don’t like generalizations, as a rule. A statement like “all restaurant owners are tax cheats” is in the same category as “all nurses are vile”, “all bikers are idiots”, “all artists are lazy trust funders”, “all housing lotteries are fixed”, and other blanket statements of fallacy. ALL of any group are not anything. It’s grossly innacurate, and immediately leads to the stoppage of further intelligent discussion of the topic, as you have to waste time arguing about the accuracy of the statement.
I also don’t see how pocketing the cash from unrecorded transactions is any different than hiding your assets in a dummy corporation, or an off-shore bank account. One is old school, not very sophisticated, the other requires high priced legal and accounting help. When it comes to paying one’s fair share of taxes, both are just as wrong.
“Did anyone see Lady Gaga”
I think DH went one night.