Paradise Papers Reveal Tax Evasion & Shady Dealings by Nike, Apple, Queen of England & Trump Cabinet

[L. Coyote]

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]

1. in other words

every fucking person with over a million in the bank.

the american dream!

[Cicada]

2. I doubt Nike, Apple, the Queen broke any laws.

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]

3. Yes, it is not evasion when the elite take advantage of laws designed and written to allow avoidance

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.

[Cicada]

6. Right on

The big nations can easily pressure Vanuatu etc into not letting Apple get away with tax murder

[SHRED]

4. And they need tax cuts?

I guess they don't have enough money.

[forgotmylogin]

12. And we have a deficit? (beware: rant)

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]

5. Hey didn't Donnie say he knows were all the loopholes are and he's gonna close them?

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]

7. Trump's personal cut in the new tax breaks is ONE BILLION $$$$$$. Nice new personal loophole.

[Blue_Tires]

8. What's the difference between this and the Panama papers

aside from the fact that the transparency bros pissed on one trove and not the other (so far)?

[L. Coyote]

9. Panama Papers came from Panama.

Different leaks. This is a collection of financial institutions' info being leaked. Watch the videos.

[Blue_Tires]

10. But will it change anything?

[L. Coyote]

11. yes

[coolsandy]

13. Money does what money does to protect itself. So what are we going to do about it?

I suspect very little because we refuse to vote or to vote for the right people.