Tm7, I'm only going by what the IRS has already reported, and yes, I would agree if putting your money offshore would help keeping the government from taking it from you, good idea. Like I said, we ll pay too much no matter how much we make, and you can agree with the government grabbing what they can if you want, but it won't work, it never has. And you can't convince me our government is going to "redistribute" this money where it would do some good anyways, even if I agreed they need to steal it somehow, there is nothing that says this money will go anywhere good, it will be funneled off and used in a thousand ways and you won't even know how it's used, but you can be sure a whole lot of it will go to where it won't do the "people" any good at all. There lies the flaw of the whole "spread the wealth" theory. Government is getting so many billions from the people now they can't even account for a lot of it, it just gets lost. There must be a massive amount of government jobs in offices just to play "pass the paper" now as it is...I guess we are paying billions in government employee salaries just to do book work....catch 22 again. As far as the only two choices you give...hang your heads and go along with the program quietly, or man your guns...I would think a good does of activism at all levels can be done before this happens, and I would also say there must have been a healthy dose of activism to get Congress to lower taxes so much at one time as we did see....once....granted, it's not many times we actually see what they confiscate from us go backwards, but it has happened, and it can happen again if people are active at all levels in many states. I think if things get bad enough, we will see a healthy dose of this again, it's a cycle, and the people go from dumb to smart real fast when everyone gets poorer, and at some point, they will want the government to get out of the way again. How anyone could trust that the government would "redistribute" money anyplace good is beyond me, they have never proved themselves as being careful with it....why in the world would you want them to have more power when they have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar so many times, and almost everything they have touched has turned to crap?
"ain't that kinda dumb after what happened last time?" ....from the movie Pale Rider....LOL!!!!....ok...let's keep it light hearted if we can, we have different opinions, but I'm I'm still on the same piece of ground with you.