• Deceptichum@quokk.auOP
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    11 days ago

    If taxes worked, the rich wouldn’t be offshoring their wealth.

    Post-panama papers it’s hard to see how anyone can justify taxation as a solution.

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      11 days ago

      Again, if the office in Panama were the End-All solution to taxes then Billionaires wouldn’t have Republicans gutting taxes, they’d be telling us “Everything is great, actually, I pay my share like everybody else!” But that’s not the narrative, is it? They want less taxes. They’re even talking about abolishing income taxes as a whole and having the peasants fund the federal government through tariffs.

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        11 days ago

        Having Republicans or other conservatives across the globe cut taxes and regulations is so that they can amass more wealth, not because they’ve lost it.

        If you don’t have to pay to offshore and hide it, that lowers your expenses.

        The global trend is that the rich are getting richer, everywhere. Taxes do not stop them.