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5. The Pandora Papers show how world leaders, politicians, public officials, famous personalities, and

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 12, 2021, 11:35 AM

Oct 2021

business executives hid $11.3 trillion (for comparison, on January 20th, 2009, when President Obama was sworn in, the
US national debt was $10.63 trillion) in more than 29,000 offshore companies in countries or territories with favourable taxation rates (in many cases no taxes at all).

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The Pandora Papers and the threat to democracy [View all] Celerity Oct 2021 OP

Rich corruption. A huge and relentless threat to Democracy empedocles Oct 2021 #1

Thank you for this explanation. beveeheart Oct 2021 #2

also the predecesser , the panama papers . AllaN01Bear Oct 2021 #3

for the longest time onethatcares Oct 2021 #4

The Pandora Papers show how world leaders, politicians, public officials, famous personalities, and Celerity Oct 2021 #5

You know how republiQans project everything they are doing? This is what they are projecting with Q. Scrivener7 Oct 2021 #6