Good off topic discussion. I will help guide it back on topic of the thread. If you trade with an IBC, say on a boat, with a US based broker, do they withhold any taxes? My thinking is you are exempt because you are a foreign based IBC. Does it matter if the 2 countries have a tax treaty? Can they require all of the info they require if you are a US citizen or US based corp? I am just opening a new account for my US based LLC and they want a photo copy of my DL and SS #. This is intrusive IMO. Right after 911 they wanted utility bills too! My LLC's tax ID should suffice. Look forward to responses. Dan
I have to be defensive here, your post is not better than mine since it's just a reaction to the previous post already off the topic smart ass.
the facts speak for themselve. i could have made the remark as a more general statement. but directing it towards you made you and everyone more fully aware of the issue. name calling makes one look foolish.
Actually what you are doing is promoting a protection racket. Taking people's property without their consent is theft. Using threats of violence to intimidate them into handing over their property is extortion. Making someone a "citizen" of your country without them having any choice in the matter is enslavement. You are promoting a culture of theft, extortion, and slavery. Your assumption that everyone wants government services is just that - an assumption. You provided no evidence to back it up, let alone proof. Well I can happily state that I want no government services whatsoever. Just stop exotorting the yield of my labour for 5 months a year, stop enslaving me, I'm happy to take my chances. So where does that leave your argument? American used to have no income tax, no capital gains tax, no welfare state, no state-owned industries. The whole country was founded on the back of a revolt against taxes. What happened to that ideal, you goddam commie?
Rofl. Steve, wtf is your problem? You are just embarrassing yourself hurling out groundless accusations like this. You think piking on the ES makes you some kind of bigshot who can go round assuming everyone else is a nobody? You're low class, running your mouth at people who never said anything against you, who are just holding an opinion which they are perfectly entitled to. So go back to trading your 20 lots, bigshot, and enjoy supporting crack whores on welfare, junkies on rehab, crooked politicians, mercenaries on $100k a year salaries, millionaire sugar barons charging you twice the market price, subsidies to butchering 3rd world dictators, turning whole countries into a state of civil war, paying redneck hicks to photograph naked men forming human pyramids at gunpoint, mass bombing of civilian populations, torturing innocent people just because they have the wrong colour skin or were born east of Vienna, and every other ne'er do well activity that gets funded courtesy of spineless politically braindead compliant sheep like yourself. And when a taxpayer subsidised multimillionaire real-estate developer comes to bulldoze your home on a compulsory purchase to "benefit society", I hope you appreciate the social necessity of 50% of your working life having gone up in smoke.
Switzerland is another notable example. The US tax burden in 1900 was a very small % of GDP, so the idea that high tax is necessary for a functioning society is simply laughable. It is in fact an idea that would only be put forward by someone with no knowledge of economic or political history.
It is in fact an idea that would only be put forward by someone with no knowledge of economic or political history. ....or with an agenda.
So being a successful traders as an american is not a dream but rather a nightmare. If i make a fortune in trading i can leave my country within 24 hours, i don't have to give up my citizenship, and if i live 183 days a year abroad i will be taxed in the country where i reside. Logically a country where you don't pay taxes if possible. Like Monaco.