Stupid people, page-106

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    @elee; over many decades $Greed-$Feeding politicians and back-slapping warmongers have engineered the Hell on Earth we're now having to confront.

    One of the worst aspects of this has recently been exposed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists [ICJ].

    In the 1970s and even though we were assured that sending companies to the bottom of the harbor then resurrecting them as phoenix companies arising from the ashes would never happen again, our politicians instead enabled the creation of 'shell companies' and 'PARTNERSHIPS'.

    The outcome of these is unprecedented global tax evasion by the world's wealthiest people - even including Russian oligarchs the Americans assured us would be brought to earth with a thud by the sanctions the USA applies - well, the ICJ has found that they're virtually 'untouchable':

    https://hotcopper.com.au/data/attachments/6143/6143016-a97be7dffda11485fb944844f7fb2ff0.jpg
    https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2024/04/how-investment-firms-shield-the-ultra-wealthy-from-the-irs/

 
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