At least $21 trillion hidden from taxes offshore by world's wealthy elite

[Lief 🗽]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/21/global-elite-tax-offshore-economy

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[Joe Republic]

And yet a large proportion of the lower end of the 99% are perfectly okay with this. 

[© tweed]

a family friend suggested the other week that we (the general population) need to hire an organized crime outfit to re-acquire these sums of cash and assets, give the outfit their 10 or 20%, and proceed on our own.

[© tweed]

And yet a large proportion of the lower end of the 99% are perfectly okay with this. 

I voted 'no' in that poll, not because I think the practice is a-ok and should continue, but because I would probably do the same thing myself if I were in their position, that because the point is to construct a social order where such things are not possible.

[Zioneer]

Conservatives want to reduce the deficit? Then stop this practice of sending money offshore.

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Conservatives want to reduce the deficit? Then stop this practice of sending money offshore.

Conservatives don't want to reduce the deficit.

[© tweed]

Conservatives want to reduce the deficit? Then stop this practice of sending money offshore.

Conservatives don't want to reduce the deficit.

correct, they want to use the specter of its existence as a means of exercising class power.

[memphis]

a family friend suggested the other week that we (the general population) need to hire an organized crime outfit to re-acquire these sums of cash and assets, give the outfit their 10 or 20%, and proceed on our own.

Saul Goodman?

[Silent Hunter]

You could fix quite a few social problems with that money and not even have to touch the US defence budget.