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    What Is It With Rich People?

    By stillidealistic on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 6:52pm |
    Why is it that so many people with more money than God have a seeming inability to pay their fair share of taxes? It's almost as if when your bank balance reaches a certain level, the integrity portion of your brain just goes away!

    Be it CEO's, politicians or just plain folks, money seems to have a corrupting influence on many people's morals. The old saying is "money is the root of all evil." I always thought it was more like the "lack of money was the root of all evil." Now I'm thinking I was wrong.

    The New York Times is now reporting that Caroline Kennedy has "housekeeper" tax problems. This seems to be a big problem and why? Let's assume for the sake of discussion she's paying her housekeeper $150K (and what are the chances of that?) we're talking no more than $15K in taxes...Is that REALLY such a huge amount of money for her?

    Even if this particular story turns out to be untrue, there seem to be more and more stories about the rich avoiding taxes, and I just don't get it.