The Situation in the Ukraine. #30

Fixed for you...

The Pandora papers are a transparent joke. They have no Americans in the list. Even GE was offshoring its profits to avoid taxes.
But supposedly US oligarchs are all little angels of innocence and virtue. GTFO.

It is like the international court that is investigating Taliban crimes but not US crimes for fear of sanctions... and in effect has become another tool of the US against the poor and the weak...

The real irony is that they are exposing these people for not paying tax, but they are all following the rules set up in their countries... the real crime is the loopholes created in the tax systems of countries around the world that allow the richest to often avoid paying any income tax or tax on purchases of major assets like property at all.

Rather than pointing out who did what... why are these loopholes not closed in tax laws for every country on the planet.

The irony is that if you are trying to get ahead so you are working two jobs you often pay a higher tax rate on that second job because it is extra income, so you are effectively paying double tax to try to improve your situation... and you often pay tax again on both incomes when you buy anything with a goods and service tax on top of that.

If you were already rich you could buy a house and wait five years and sell it for two or three times what you paid for it and make millions without actually having to do very much at all...

Companies making a lot of money can buy failing companies that are losing money and fudge their income so they don't need to pay much tax for the high income company and get most of their tax from the losing company back...

But these are papers from a second finance company... the Pandora papers.... how many finance companies are there... and assuming they are all doing this... why wouldn't they... sounds like we should all be demanding people with integrity write our tax laws and laws in general instead of the total that have written them in the past.

ALAMO wrote:Now the funny part, still I admit it is from the Russian TV, and not checked by me.
The Guardian, which wrote about that in numbers, used a Putin photo for the article and mentioned his name 50 times.
Still, there was not a single claim about him involved in any act of laundering.

The Gruniad has terminal Putin derangement syndrome. If Putin was such a bloody tyrant, then why would he
need to "hide" his wealth offshore? From whom? Himself? This is an example of liars getting tangled in their
own lies and producing incoherent pap.

These "papers" are actually aimed at the Russian public. They hope to instill the notion that Putin is offshoring
wealth and is thus bad for Russia. That Putin has overseen Russia's revival on an epic scale is somehow expected
to be forgotten by a bunch of credulous saps. The west shows its mentally deficient hubris and condescension
once again.

No Americans were mentioned because in America is it perfectly legal to be rich and not pay tax... let the poor pay tax... and most of the tax goes to funding wars that make the rich even richer.

The majority of Americans don't even see their money spent on infrastructure to make their lives easier or more comfortable... they just brace themselves for the next tax bill...

Stealing taxpayers money from the US government is a game but you need a billion in the bank to win... because you need a billion in the bank to play.

Putin has already instructed Gazprom to continue to send the agreed upon amounts of gas through Ukrainian pipes as agreed... they are not going to freeze this winter... as long as they don't do something really stupid like steal or divert the gas.

Tough times.... 10,000 potentially over qualified candidates for just the one position....

The US is "agreeing" to what is already required by the Minsk Accords.

Nuland (ie the US) spent 5 billion dollars to overthrow the legitimate government in Kiev and replace them with the remaining dregs of politics in the Ukraine... the cookies were just PR.

So if America is agreeing that the Minsk agreements need to be implemented then that puts pressure on Kiev because they are the ones dragging their feet.