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Obamas Tax Evaders of the Year. They support soaking the rich but find ways to stay dry themselves.
By Michelle Malkin
01/02/2013
President Obama will kick off the new year the same way that he kicked off the old year: by demanding that the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes. But while millions of small-business owners, struggling entrepreneurs, inventors, and investors brace for a double whammy of fiscal-cliff tax hikes and new Obamacare taxes, the class-warrior-in-chiefs richest pals are getting a pass.
Its a golden pass for liberal millionaires and billionaires who support higher Obama taxes for everyone but themselves. Meet the Democratic tax evaders of the year.
Google. The left-wing Internet giant provided Silicon Valleys biggest campaign-finance boost to Obama, with individual-employee donations supporting the tax-hiking candidate by a ratio of more than 31-to-1. Google rank-and-file workers pitched in some $800,000 to Obama. Googles CEO Eric Schmidt, co-founder Sergey Brin, chief legal officer and senior vice president David Drummond, and vice president and chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf are all vocal Obama supporters and top donors.
In December, Googles Netherlands subsidiary disclosed in a tax filing that it had shifted nearly $10 billion in revenues to a Bermuda shell company. Thats almost double the total from three years before, according to Bloomberg News. In response to criticism, Google defended the scheme as a legal response to government incentives. Its called capitalism, Schmidt snarked defiantly.
Wonder what all of Obamas operatives and media lapdogs who bashed evil, selfish Republican offshore tax havens have to say about that? Cue crickets chirping.
** Washington Post
** Costco
** George Lucas
** Andre Dr. Dre Young.
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