Vast Web of Tax Evasion Exposed

[decay]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/busi...92505.html



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/03...08426.html

Dozens of journalists sifted through millions of leaked records and thousands of names to produce ICIJ’s investigation into offshore secrecy

http://www.euronews.com/2013/04/04/rich-...s-exposed/

The identities of thousands of people with fortunes hidden in accounts, mainly in the British Virgin Islands, have been exposed – or are about to be. Their loss of innocence, so to speak, comes thanks to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, based in Washington.

[Acer]

Hey, they were creating jobs with that!

[swampy]

You make it sound like off shore investments are bad. It's legal whether you approve or not. Just another left wing journalistic distraction. Move on.

[Ted King]

swampy wrote:
You make it sound like off shore investments are bad. It's legal whether you approve or not. Just another left wing journalistic distraction. Move on.

So you would agree that this syllogism is sound (valid and true).

Anything legal cannot be bad.
Sequester cuts are legal.
Therefore, sequester cuts cannot be bad.

[cbelt3]

Evasion implies illegality. This is avoidance, possibly.

Only in Cyprus is capital taxed. Identifying capital as if it was income is disingenuous at best. A deliberate lie at worst .

[Black]

I thought this was going to be about mac users finding computer sources that don't have a physical address in their state.

[Acer]

Black, evasion is permissible only if the tax is regressive.

[Black]

Acer wrote:
Black, evasion is permissible only if the tax is regressive.

(tu)

[samintx]

Ted King wrote:
[quote=swampy]
You make it sound like off shore investments are bad. It's legal whether you approve or not. Just another left wing journalistic distraction. Move on.

So you would agree that this syllogism is sound (valid and true).

Anything legal cannot be bad.
Sequester cuts are legal.
Therefore, sequester cuts cannot be bad.
I believe the sequester is not cutting but not letting depts (govmt spending) GROW. Interesting how the Administration after all their talk of Armageddon has found money to use in depts...and parties....and vacations...and disguised political trips just about anything they wanted.

[Spock]

samintx wrote:

I believe the sequester is not cutting but not letting depts (govmt spending) GROW.

You can believe that the moon is made of cream cheese but it doesn't make it so.

Try reading the text of the BUDGET CONTROL ACT OF 2011