It’s a little rich for pop star multi-millionaires to demand that rich-nation taxpayers
cough up and send money to Africa, says
Mark Steyn,
when they are sparing no effort to keep their money away from the tax
man.
Take the late Linda, Lady McCartney. Writes Steyn:
Seven years ago, you’ll recall, Sir Paul [McCartney]’s wife died of cancer.
Linda McCartney had been a resident of the United Kingdom for three decades but
her Manhattan tax lawyers, Winthrop Stimson Putnam & Roberts, devoted considerable energy
in her final months to
establishing her right to have her estate probated in New York state
Why would she do that? How about so she could avoid paying 40 percent in death taxes to
the British government.
That is 40 percent of $150 million, in case you were wondering. Savvy business operators, those
rockers and their expensive women. You might almost call them global multinationals, if it
weren’t such an insult. Much better to have the taxpayers save devastated
Africa than for them to
devastate their expensively crafted trust funds.
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