Hitler Dodged Taxes, Expert Finds

[Octafish]

Authoritarian, money grubbing, psychotic sociopaths share a few things.

Hitler Dodged Taxes, Expert Finds

BBC News
12-17-4

Adolf Hitler spent years dodging taxes, accumulating enormous debts as he led his Nazi party to power, a German tax expert has revealed.

He owed the authorities 405,500 Reichsmarks (6m euros; £4m in today's money) by 1934, when as German chancellor his debts were forgiven.

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The tax office inquired how Hitler had obtained funds to buy a luxury Mercedes car while he was in prison following his abortive 1923 coup attempt.

Hitler replied that he had received a bank loan and the car "is for me just a means to an end".

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4105683.stm

They are such cheap cowards, conservatives.

[valerief]

1. As Leona Helmsley said, "Only the little people pay taxes." (Not short people, just workers). nt

[Octafish]

4. What a lovely crook she was.

From a little person's POV:

Leona Helmsley: "The Queen of Mean"

By Rachael Bell
TruCrime Library

Tax-Fraud Troubles

In 1983, real estate tycoons and hoteliers Harry and Leona Helmsley bought the weekend retreat of their dreams. The newly acquired 21 room estate, known as Dunnellen Hall, was situated on 26 sprawling acres in Greenwich, Connecticut. The cost of the enormous house and surrounding property was a staggering $11 million.

Although the property was beautiful by most standards, the Helmsleys decided that they wanted to make changes and a lot of them. Several years of remodeling and redecoration went into the house, totaling some $8 million dollars. It was an outrageous sum of money they were reluctant to pay, despite the fact that they were worth well over a billion dollars. They were even more hesitant to shell out the taxes due on the extra expenditures. Instead of paying up, the Helmsleys chose to take an illegal route. Greed would eventually get the better of them.

During and following the work on the house, a group of contractors, including decorators, gardeners, painters and landscapers, attempted to collect on the money owed to them for their hard labor and materials. To their dismay, they learned that the Helmsleys were unwilling to pay the bills. Leona claimed that much of the completed work was inadequate and they were being grossly overcharged. Angered and frustrated, many of the contractors were forced to file suit against the Helmsleys. Leona and Harry eventually settled some of the outstanding debts but by then it was too late.

Harry and Leona had grossly underestimated the contractors. Those who had worked on the renovation and remodeling of the house knew that much of the work they had performed for the Helmsleys was being billed to some of Harry's other properties. Although it was not an uncommon practice to falsify business expenses in order to evade taxes, it was highly illegal. Exasperated with the manner in which they were treated, the contractors decided to wage their own campaign against the Helmsleys. They wanted the world to know that the work they were doing on the mansion was being written off as a business expense and they had the invoices to prove it.

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http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/scams/leona_helmsley/index.html

A tax dodging cheepskate, that story.

[mucifer]

2. Wow as a Jew I really don't care if he paid his taxes.

One of Chicago's best mayors was Harold Washington, the first African American mayor of Chicago who may have paved the way for Senator Barack Obama. He missed paying some taxes and it was brought up in the campaign and he won anyway. He was VERY liberal and for the 1980s he was VERY pro gay rights. He had a wonderful multicultural coalition.

Yes, everyone should pay their taxes. But, I don't give a flying f--- about hitler not paying his taxes. He tried to wipe me and every person in my culture and religion off the planet not to mention other cultures and religions. That's what I care about.

[Warpy]

3. I do. If the Weimar government had thrown him back in jail

for about 10 more years, world history might have taken a different turn.

[Octafish]

5. My point was to demonstrate a certain commonality in the conservative mindset.

It was not to belittle the evil such people did.

Another common trait such people share: They believe they are above everyone else and destined to be so.

[mucifer]

6. Like I said, Harold Washington was an amazing liberal and

he didn't file taxes for a few years.