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Townhall
Obama's Tax
Evaders of the Year
by Michelle Malkin
Jan 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
chief's richest pals are getting a pass.
It's 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 Valley's
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. Google's CEO Eric Schmidt, Google cofounder Sergey Brin, Chief
Legal Officer and Senior Vice President David Drummond, and Google Vice
President and Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf are all vocal Obama
supporters and top donors.
In December, Google's Netherlands subsidiary disclosed in a tax filing
that it had shifted nearly $10 billion in revenues to a Bermuda shell
company. That's "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. "It's called
capitalism," Schmidt snarked defiantly...
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