Do you think it's fair for John Kerry to avoid $500,000 in property and sales tax by birthing his yacht in Rhode Island?

The Massachusetts millionaire Senator has bought a $7 million, 76-foot, New Zealand-made yacht and is keeping it in Rhode Island to avoid the $437,000 sales tax and the $70,000 a year property tax. Is this fair when there's so many poor people in the world? google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j... Asked by DanZee 17 months ago Similar questions: fair John Kerry avoid $500 000 property sales tax birthing yacht Rhode Island Games & Leisure > Travel.

Similar questions: fair John Kerry avoid $500 000 property sales tax birthing yacht Rhode Island.

He is no better than any one else If he can afford the yacht, he can pay the taxes. Rich people are the biggest crooks around.

It would be unfair for him to have that opportunity if DanZee, in similar circumstances, would not have that same ... ... opportunity; and i'm sure you're too honest-minded to claim that. So perhaps you are saying that it's unfair for him to keep $500K that he *could*, by choosing a different berth for his yacht, have paid in taxes? Somehow, that seems inconsistent with the general societal outlook that I have come to expect from you.So i'll have to answer, "No, it's not unfair" (at least, not to you) -- or illegal.

Whether it is unethical or immoral (or unfair to poor people) is not, as far as I can tell, at issue; for example, we don't know whether he contributed that amount (that he avoided in taxes) to some organization that helps take care of those poor people you mentioned. I'm glad, however, to see you showing such consideration for poor people; please keep setting such an excellent example..

As fair as... It's exactly 12,000 times as fair as a certain Big Oil Company being "based" in the Bahamas, avoiding $6 billion in US taxes: Tax Justice Network, an anti-tax haven pressure group, suggests that global tax revenue lost to tax havens exceeds US$255 billion per year, although those figures are not widely accepted. Estimates by the OECD suggest that by 2007 capital held offshore amounts to somewhere between US$5 trillion and US$7 trillion, making up approximately 6–8% of total global investments under management. Of this, approximately US$1.4 trillion is estimate to be held in the Cayman Islands alone.38 So how about you focus on companies, which comprise like 99% of the offshore tax avoidance?

Once you clean up those, then you can start working on Congress.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.