American Taxes

On Friday, April 27, 2012, Ingrid wrote a post about taxes on her blog entitled "Where are your feet?" Ingrid writes that while regular hard working American citizens are working our tails off and still paying taxes, Hollywood movie stars, famous singers and actors, or people who are in the lime-light all the time somehow think that they are exempt from paying their taxes. Um, excuse me? No. I agree with Ingrid in saying that is NOT acceptable. Martha Stewart says she shouldn't have to pay $220,000 worth of taxes on her East Hampton mansion because she hardly spent time there? Un-freaking-acceptable. If you have the house, you should have to pay taxes just like everyone else. A celebrity is not exempt from paying taxes just because they are in the lime-light all the time.  Our tax dollars go towards defense and international security assistance, Social Security, safety net programs, interest on the national debt, benefits for federal retirees/veterans, transportation, education, federal prisons and scientific medical research, so they are very good causes. Celebrities are human beings just like us, so they should have to follow the rules, just like we do.