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The sad thing is that our government seems to make a point of screwing with kooks. I don’t care if McAffee owed some taxes - leave the guy alone, he’s obviously
by rcurry 5y ago
The sad thing is that our government seems to make a point of screwing with kooks. I don’t care if McAffee owed some taxes - leave the guy alone, he’s obviously unstable, has major problems with drug and alcohol addiction and all they can do is try to bring him even lower. Poor guy had major problems even before the “heroes” of the FBI or the IRS or whatever started screwing with him. Let the poor guy ride off into the sunset for Pete’s sake.
- octopoc 5y agoReminds me of the movie American Hustle. The government has a choice of going after criminals who badly hurt a lot of people or going after the easily-demonized bit players. Guess which is good for their careers.
- tclancy 5y agoWell sure. But do it for poor people first. There are a million people without millions suffering from similar treatment in the US.
- rcurry 5y agoThank you for taking the time to reply, I appreciate it. I also agree with you. What I’m emphasizing is that our government prefers to go after weak targets. Not sure why you are being downvoted, you make a good point.
- amznthrwaway 5y agoWe should dramatically step up funding of the IRS so that they can obtain revenue from harder targets as well.
- gizdan 5y ago> I don’t care if McAffee owed some taxes - leave the guy alone, he's obviously unstable This is ridiculous. Okay so let's leave all the rich people alone who claim they are unstable. McAfee made millions, from what I understand, he paid little taxes on that. That's stupid. I don't care how unstable you are, or how good you are donating your "fair share". You're still not excused from paying your taxes.
- to1y 5y agoParent poster meant let's not make him look like a loon and hound him relentlessly because of it.
- hugi 5y agoBut he was a loon and a thief/tax cheat
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- hartator 5y agoWas he? He was accused of not reporting potential cryto gains from talking about some cryptos. But if it didn’t realized any gains, he really didn’t have anything to report.
- studentrob 5y agoArticle says he didn't file for four years.
- pupdogg 5y agoYou don’t have to file taxes if you make less than $10k…I think that figure rose to $12k in 2020…how can you or the article prove he made more than that each of those 4 years? Always have to keep an ear open to both sides of the discussion!
- studentrob 5y agoTIL! I thought federal was required even with no income. Still, you're probably leaving money on the table if you don't file with no income, especially this last year with all the stimulus. About whether McAfee could prove no income, I guess he would've had his day in court to show it.
- bilbo0s 5y agoTo be fair, you can't really do that because then that lowly waitress who owes, say, 3 grand because her manager reported her tips will say, "Why do rich people get off?" And she'd be right. If you go after anyone, you have to go after everyone in my view. If anything, you should go soft on the low income people rather than the wealthy. But on the federal level, going soft on a famous and wealthy person when you have the exact same evidence is just not something you can do in a rule of law society. Particularly in today's environment. You can do that on a state and local level, but on a federal level the IRS, FBI and the prosecutors would be crucified.
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- jasonl99 5y ago“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman I've always used this as an excuse for what might be considered being weird (at least that's what my family tells me).
- rcurry 5y agoAs Hunter Thompson would say, when the going gets weird the weird turn pro.
- stevespang 5y agoGotta luv Hunter, McAfee was on Hunter's level . . . .
- bradleybuda 5y agoThere are lots of weird and unreasonable people in the world who are not tax cheats, rapists, or murderers. Many of them are wonderful people deserving of praise. McAfee is not.
- Klinky 5y agoThe dude was found liable for two people's deaths, and evaded taxes, like... I dunno. He doesn't seem like that great of a guy. He seems like a self-centered reckless narcissist leaving destruction in his wake.
- hellbannedguy 5y agoWhen was he found guilty for the dead neighbor? Anyways---you don't poison a guy's dogs. (Yea--I know, I'm suspose to be compassionate over rich dead guys. By rich dead guys, I mean the neighbor who was constantly complaining over John's dogs whom was found dead. As far as today, they had no evidence against John.) I liked John. I liked he was different than most rich guys. I painfully remember him stating he doesn't pay taxes. I remember wishing he didn't say that in a documentary.
- Klinky 5y agoAlso the death of his nephew and the passenger of the glider that crashed from the extreme sport he was trying to promote. "Not like other rich dudes", uhh, we have plenty of other eccentric rich people, like Richard Branson or Elon Musk, etc... I am sure there are plenty more examples out there.
- FireBeyond 5y agoConstantly "complaining" about McAfee's _aggressive_ dogs which had a history of biting and attacking people in the neighborhood. Yeah, you don't poison a dog. To be clear, they weren't poisoned fatally, they were made sick. Still not okay. McAfee put them down (debates on necessity ensued). Was he found guilty? No. Because he immediately made a run for the border, crossed illegally into another country. He wasn't found guilty because Belize didn't try him in absentia, not because he faced justice. A civil suit found him, like OJ, liable for the other guy's death.
- CRConrad 5y ago> When was he found guilty for the dead neighbor? > Anyways---you don't poison a guy's dogs. When was the neighbor found guilty for that?
- ykevinator3 5y agoTo be fair he killed a guy so...
- egypturnash 5y agoMusk's a rich kook and I sure don't see the government screwing with him.
- xwolfi 5y agoProbably because he pays his taxes and doesnt try to flee to Turkey?
- NovemberWhiskey 5y agoI mean you could ask him but I'm pretty sure he'd say the SEC is out to get him.
- FireBeyond 5y agoYou know, the FBI, the IRS... or the family of the guy he most likely had murdered in Belize for poisoning his aggressive dogs? (Not fatally, the guy gave them something that made them sick, McAfee decided to shoot them, and mysteriously, the next day, the guy was found with a bullet in the back of his head, and evidence of electro-torture to the face and genitals.
- xwolfi 5y agoI agree a more humane approach would have avoided his death probably, but look. He has to pay his taxes like everyone else to pay for all these stimulus, vaccines, medicare, debt interest, foreign invasions the US does all the time. He could have renunced US citizenship and found something else, could have made money elsewhere. Im in Hong Kong with French citizenship and it s clear if France starts making me pay taxes while im abroad, Ill just find a way out of the citizenship. No instead he paraded everywhere saying taxes were illegal... idiot.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> The sad thing is that our government seems to make a point of screwing with kooks. Does it? Or is it just that kooks are likely to commit crimes in ways that result in them getting caught at a higher frequency than non-kooks, especially rich kooks compared to other equally rich people, since rich non-kooks exploit their resources to either structure their misdeeds within the law or arrange means to avoid accountability for their crimes?
- rank0 5y agoAre you being serious? Everyone and their mother has mental health issues. Im not cool working for the government 4 months/year while rich assholes run off screaming “taxation is theft!” and using personal instability as a defense.