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Why We Need to Confront the Billionaires’ Paradise
- jimmywanger 9y agoFTA: > The ICIJ’s Panama Papers revealed that many people are using illegal means to avoiding taxation. > The Paradise Papers reveal something equally important: how billionaires and corporations can evade taxation — and public scrutiny of their wealth — through legal means. These are consecutive sentences. Which is it?
- hkmurakami 9y agoBoth.
- jimmywanger 9y agoSo the solution to loopholes in laws is to pass more laws? Re: illegal tax evasion, yes that should be prosecuted. However, when Amazon didn't charge state income tax, I sure didn't go out of my way to pay the government.