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> income tax from employees working in oil industry, Everyone pays income taxes. If the mob starts paying income taxes, is that a good reason to bring racket
by vkou 3y ago
> income tax from employees working in oil industry,
Everyone pays income taxes.
If the mob starts paying income taxes, is that a good reason to bring racketeering back?
Why are they paying the same mineral rights fees for extracting from a protected state park, as they would from non-protected land? Is a park designation utterly meaningless in Ohio?
- calamari4065 3y agoStrictly speaking, criminal gains are taxable and you are technically required to declare any illegal income on your taxes. As for racketeering, it never left. It's just a government institution now.
- balderdash 3y agoBut oil is not uniformly distributed, if it is a marginal decision (probably unlikely in this case) then those are jobs not needed, and taxes forgone, the logic is sound on truly marginal cases, but it’s probably some fraction of that that is truly marginal