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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsParadise Papers Reveal Tax Evasion & Shady Dealings by Nike, Apple, Queen of England & Trump Cabinet
Web ExclusiveNovember 06, 2017
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/6/paradise_papers_millions_of_leaked_docs
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/6/part_2_paradise_papers_reveal_tax
bdtrppr6
(796 posts)every fucking person with over a million in the bank.
the american dream!
Cicada
(4,533 posts)I agree massive tax avoidance (which is legal) is shady. And the secrecy can help hide actual illegality which will no doubt be found from this leak.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)The elite are not doing bad things -- the politicians in Congress are.
We need to place the blame where it belongs - on those who write the rules, not those who take advantage of them.
The big nations can easily pressure Vanuatu etc into not letting Apple get away with tax murder
SHRED
(28,136 posts)I guess they don't have enough money.
forgotmylogin
(7,496 posts)If so much money is not being taxed, why are the poor and middle class being forced to give up healthcare and Medicare and Social Security, and why do we let places like Puerto Rico linger without infrastructure like a 3rd World country?
It's not even a matter of "the rich deserve the money they make", it's a matter of "The rich are pretending they make less than they do so they don't have to help everyone out by being taxed as much."
Looks like the uber-rich already have their tax break. They don't need another one.
Fuck rich people. I always felt guilty when my blue-collar dad would buy something from a store and negotiate a discount for paying cash so the store didn't have to declare it and pay taxes.
Fuck people who don't give a shit about others people who aren't of their societal class.
Stuff fucking goose liver pate down their throat and up their fucking ass while they sit in one of their fucking eight Lamborghinis parked on the deck of their fucking yacht until they suffocate and fucking die.
And then....THEN don't have to fucking pay estate tax because fucking asshole motherfucking Donald Motherfucking J Motherfucking Scrooge McMotherfucking Trump thinks motherfucking rich people need more fucking money.
Goddammit, I hate these people.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)He said it's gonna hurt him real real bad but he cares so very much about the American people he's taking it on his multiple chins.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)aside from the fact that the transparency bros pissed on one trove and not the other (so far)?
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Different leaks. This is a collection of financial institutions' info being leaked. Watch the videos.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)coolsandy
(479 posts)I suspect very little because we refuse to vote or to vote for the right people.