Remember when it turned out that on top of this the USA was also being run by a cabal of pedophile nazis and then they got voted back in anyway and then the richest man in the world publicly did a nazi salute on stage and then openly went around every government department installing his own servers to do fuck knows what and then the president of the USA sent the military into American cities and talked about cancelling elections and still nothing happened? And also when the president staged an attempted coup, picked up 36 felonies and buried his ex wife under his golf course? And also took a bunch of highly classified documents home and kept them next to his toilet and then his son in law mysteriously got two billion dollars from the Saudi government for no apparent reason?
One of the funny things about the Panama Papers was how few Americans were in it. This is not a point in America’s favor, but an illustration of how loose and flimsy American tax law is in practice. You don’t need these elaborate shell companies to avoid taxation, because tax avoidance for folks in the mega-million brackets is baked into the system.
Excellent point. The miles long US tax code leaks taxation on the wealthy like a sieve, by design, such that many of our billionaires pay less than average working class citizens. It’s grotesque, and even now they’re pushing to strip healthcare from millions to pay even less.
I have heard some dems a/b testing recently on ideas of taxing wealth not work. I really like that approach in theory, hope it sticks and we can finally start narrowing the insane and utterly untenable wealth gap.
Obama did a response to the film The Laundromat (which is excellent), where he said, yes this is one of the keystone problems we have, but there is not going to be a fix for it, because the people that could fix it are benefitting from it. I’ve never seen him quite that defeated before.
Any chance you have a link or transcript?
I found a related clip, not precisely what the commenter mentioned but it’s the same mold - Obama talking about the Panama fraud itself, rather than the movie
1 thing happened: a journalist got killed.
Her name was Daphne Caruana Galizia and she was murdered by a car bomb
Didn’t the person who leaked that get blown up by a car bomb? That’s not nothing.
Not quite. So far as I’m aware the actual leaker remains anonymous, and the journalist they originally gave the documents to is okay. However, two journalists who were involved in picking apart the actual content of the papers and reporting on it were murdered, Daphne Caruana Galizia and Ján Kuciak. Galizia was the one who was killed with a car bomb
Ján Kuciak, murdered together with his wife in their house, in their bed while sleeping. Meanwhile our current (Slovak) government party at that time campaigned and promised to “catch their killer and solve the murder”. You can guess whether they delivered on that promise( spoiler: they didn’t)
It caused mass protests in Iceland and the prime minister resigned over it.
At least Iceland cared?
Same as 2008
They made virus to cover it up. Now they’re covering virus with AI.
Well the rich people aren’t going to be the ones doing anything about it. Did any of you?
