Chapter 1656: Being Too Big to Die Is a Thief

For the big guys in the White House, monopoly trust is the original sin. Whether you use personal efforts or use patent barriers, monopoly is bad and completely unacceptable. The antitrust bill back then didn't appear out of thin air. Either overtly or covertly, life or death, there were too many big families who were affected by this bill.

So you say, has the monopoly disappeared?

Stop talking nonsense, if you don’t have a monopoly, how can the consortium come from there? If you don’t have a monopoly, how can it be capitalism? You must understand that the basis of everything is monopoly. And the reason why there is that antitrust bill can actually be regarded as keeping pace with the times.

There is nothing difficult to understand. The scene described by Comrade Ma in Das Kapital did not appear. This does not mean that capitalists have become philanthropists. It means that they are actually the smartest group of people who know how to play this way. There is no way to go on. It is either reform or revolution. There is absolutely no third way.

It's nice that they chose to give up some of the residual value. Because the consequences of not giving up may be scenes that you would never dream of in your nightmares.

The establishment of antitrust laws does not mean that monopolies have been completely eliminated. Its establishment eliminated the most rudimentary monopolies.

In the era of Monopoly 2.0, apart from the financial field, there are actually no monopolies in the true sense, not even Bill Gates' Windows Company.

In financial monopoly, you cannot just have money. Money is just the foundation. If you lose your tradition and connections, it will be useless no matter how much money you have. Take White Bank as an example. Doesn’t this guy just earn the interest rate difference between deposits and loans? You have to know that almost all banks in the United States have gone bankrupt. If there is no financial innovation, what kind of bank will you open?

But, but, White Bank seems to be very successful. Just one step at a time, it has now become one of the top ten banks in the United States. Don't talk about thirty or fifty years, or ten years from now. The three majors are not necessarily difficult, but the five majors are not difficult.

This kind of rolling development of involution is simply terrifying. In terms of the current IT industry, from software to hardware to the Internet, if you pick out any company at random, White Investment will either be the major shareholder or the second shareholder, and that’s it. They are all listed companies, and the shares have been diluted to a certain extent to a large extent. If you look at the companies waiting for IPO, White's investment accounts for a larger proportion.

"Mr. Stone, we must stop this kind of transaction. This obvious related transaction has seriously interfered with the normal stock price fluctuations."

"Mr. Madoff, my Antitrust Division is not the Intelligence Bureau.

The two parties to the transaction may be related by blood or have other relationships, which will not affect the transaction itself.

In addition, the IRS is very annoyed. All of Mr. William White's transactions have been filed with the IRS. Dear Bernard, you don’t want to provoke these lunatics, do you? "Bernard Madoff was stunned. He never imagined that there was a big hole here, a big hole that was difficult to overcome no matter what.

Damn it, people are planning to pay tax, and it’s still a huge amount of tax. It is impossible for the IRS not to pay attention to William White, the largest taxpayer. By the way, the IRS has a dedicated team responsible for William White.

Think about it, suddenly one day, your boss in charge tells you, so what, our boss plans to split up the family, which will generate a very huge tax. Please cooperate and try to give a certain amount within the scope of the policy. convenient.

What will the answer be?

Don't worry, don't worry, you damn person, who dares not to let us collect taxes? You really think that the soldiers we raise are just for display.

In fact, because they are not short of money, when it comes to the combat effectiveness of the troops, the IRS is actually among the best, which means that these guys don't want to be too ostentatious.

Well, okay, it doesn’t sound very nice when you say it. The most powerful force in the United States is actually called the Tax Bureau. Damn it, can you be more funny?

The IRS in the United States is indeed a very special agency. Let’s put it this way, it follows you around like a shadow, sticking to your body like snot. It is no exaggeration to say that you have to pay taxes when selling laundry detergent in the United States!

The IRS's tax filing guide contains instructions that tell taxpayers how to report illegal income. Yes, even if you have illegal income, you still need to file a tax return.

The most outrageous thing is that the IRS gave an example based on the actual situation, how to pay taxes on selling laundry detergent. Anyway, the meaning is very clear, no matter what you do, I can't lose a penny of my money.

Do criminals really know how to declare it? Of course not under normal circumstances, but, if they knew they were going to be arrested, the first thing they would think of would be to pay taxes. Because if you don’t pay taxes, you will not only be charged with treason, but you will also be charged with tax evasion. Remember one sentence, you may lose your life by going to jail, but you will lose everything by evading taxes.

What, how come it’s okay if it’s so stupid? This guy doesn't seem to have paid taxes. Could it be that as president, he still has a tax-free quota?

If you think too much, if you can really get tax exemption, Bush Jr.'s biggest opponent may be William White. How can you not do such a fun thing as tax exemption? Don’t worry, my friend will go home after four years, and he will definitely not stay away.

How is that possible? If that were the case, the presidential election would be a battle. Today Morgan and Rockefeller will fight, and tomorrow Rothschild and Hilton will fight.

There's really nothing you can do about it. Unless you invest like Buffett, you can't escape paying taxes. This is also talking about ordinary rich people. If it reaches the level of William White, my God, the amount of taxes paid by this bastard can be used as an economic indicator.

However, there is an interesting phenomenon. Generally, no one checks the taxes paid by rich people. The IRS is not stupid, they like to randomly check the middle class. Rich people have specialized accountants. Even if they evade taxes, it is difficult to detect them. Rich people will not take the risk to evade taxes. Only the middle class will. Whether they can evade taxes or not will have a great impact on their lives. If you don't pay taxes, you may fall into the lower class of the rich. If you pay taxes, you may fall halfway out of the middle class.

In addition, there is a reporting system. The maximum fine is 30%. When an accountant deceives you about tax evasion, you don’t know if he is planning to retire. Don't think that it won't happen. He can't report it himself, and he can't deliberately leak it to anyone. Think about it, if you can earn enough money for a lifetime in one go, no one will be polite to you.

Bernard Madoff fainted. He would never have imagined that such an operation could be possible. Can the rights of taxpayers be explained in this way? Damn it, hurry up and do the opposite, you will get back as much as you want, if this is not a good thing.