Re: They gave their lives....

[Julia Thompson]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:

> > You have a responsibility to pay your taxes.
> 
> I don't think I do. At least not all taxes. If I don't wanne pay all
> of the rather high taxrates (especially those paying for the social
> security) in the Netherlands I can ask for exemption of them (this
> saves up to 27%? in incometaxes). But then I also cannot profit from
> the benifits those taxes pay for anymore. I think it's the same for
> the US?

The only way I know of to avoid paying the social security taxes if you
work in the US is to work for some entity that is somehow exempt.  IIRC,
teachers in Texas pay into the state teachers retirement fund and not into
Social Security, and that's the only organization I know of that has that
exemption.

I might be wrong on this, though.

        Julia