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Swedish Tax Office Targets Webcam Strippers
Sweden's tax authorities are cracking down on unreported webcam stripper income. They estimate that hundreds of Swedish women are dodging the law, resulting in a tax loss of about 40m Swedish kronor (£3.3m) annually. The search involves tax officials examining stripper websites, hours upon hours, for completely legitimate purposes. A slightly disheveled project leader said 200 Swedish strippers had been investigated so far, adding the total could be as much as 500. "They are young girls, we can see from the photos. We think that perhaps they are not well informed about the rules," he said.
You anti-taxers are amazing. You're all about "hey, this great country, what it really needs is less money, then it would be even greater!"
There's the saying (in fact, you can buy a T-shirt saying this at Washington D.C. airports): "I love my country. It's the government I'm afraid of."
America is the greatest country in the world in the human history, and it's precisely because it was the only country to celebrate individualism for what it was—the only practical way to promote collective good, given that men are men and angels do not govern.
America (the people, that is, not the bureaucrats or politicians in D.C.) will even be greater if she has more money (naturally), and one of the ways to do that is to reduce the amount of money taken by the government, and the easiest way to do that is to reduce tax, and the easiest way to reduce tax is to cut income tax, which is also the best way to uplift the middle class—there's no easy, arbitrarily set invisible line that separates the middle class from the ultra rich, and given that the ultra rich do not, as a group, pay so much tax anyway (or so you claim), cutting all income tax will help the middle class most, the exact group you want to help.