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Todays Thought
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Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.2023/04/26
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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.2023/04/25
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Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.2023/04/24
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History is all explained by geography.2023/04/23
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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.2023/04/20
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Tax Me If You Can (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
Tax Me If You Can (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
In 2004, FRONTLINE investigated the rampant abuse of tax shelters dating back to the late 1990s, finding that some of America’s most respected accounting firms were responsible and that American taxpayers were paying for it. (Aired 2004)
This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: http://www.pbs.org/donate. As the documentary “Tax Me If You Can” explored, the tax shelter became one of corporate America’s biggest hidden profit centers in the 1990s and early 2000s. The General Accounting Office estimated that bogus tax shelters at the time cost the government more than $85 billion. Correspondent Hedrick Smith spoke with government officials, tax experts and industry insiders to expose these tax shelters. His reporting led him to some unexpected places — from the city of Dortmund, Germany, to the Cayman Islands. The documentary examined how difficult it was for the Internal Revenue Service to find tax shelters and how the tax shelter wave prompted a federal investigation. The ultimate victim in this scheme, experts in the documentary said, is the honest taxpayer who is left to make up what companies aren’t paying. “Tax Me If You Can” is a FRONTLINE production with Hedrick Smith Productions. The co-writer, director and producer is Rick Young. The co-writer, correspondent and senior producer is Hedrick Smith. Explore additional reporting on "Tax Me If You Can" on our website: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl... #Documentary #Taxes #TaxShelter Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/1BycsJW Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontlinepbs Twitter: https://twitter.com/frontlinepbs Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frontline FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and airs nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Park Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen. CHAPTERS: Prologue - 00:00 America’s Tax Shelter Epidemic - 1:17 How American Companies Used Cross-Border Leasing Deals For Tax Benefits - 4:06 IRS Struggled Amid ‘90s Tax Shelter Epidemic - 11:07 Steering The Wealthy Into Tax Schemes - 22:20 A Federal Investigation Into Tax Shelter Abuses - 35:09 Tax Schemes Adapt To New Rules - 43:28 Credits - 52:40
Todays Thought
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There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan, and the musician.2023/04/17
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Todays Thought
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Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.2023/04/13
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Protesting is an act of love. It is born of a deeply held conviction that the world can be a better, kinder place. Saying "no" to injustice is the ultimate declaration of hope.2023/04/12
Todays Thought
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Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?2023/04/11
Todays Thought
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A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.2023/04/10
Todays Thought
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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor. Still less did she say: Be rich. Her cry to me was always: Be independent.Todays Thought
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You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.Todays Thought
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.2023/04/09
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Todays Thought
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A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you’re keeping.
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