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Keep Your Eyes On The Pandora Papers
Oct. 9th, 2021 05:21 pmSo, at least for fannish and/or social media type people, The Big Political Story in the US right now is Facebook and the expose about how horrifying their enabling of domestic extremism is. And that is a really big story, and we should all be paying attention to it and contacting our legislators to urge that Something Be Done About That, but there is another story that is just as big that we should also be paying attention to:
The Pandora Papers.
Remember about five years ago that huge cache of papers about rich people using elaborate legal fictions to hide wealth and do all sorts of dishonest things with it? From stealing money from their country, to tax evasion on a mind-boggling scale, to far worse things?
Yeah. This is more of that, except like ten times bigger. And, crucially, one of the things it exposes is that a couple of US states (South Dakota, primarily, but also Alaska, Delaware, Nevada and New Hampshire) are MAJOR players in the "hiding rich peoples' money" stakes. There is a river of dirty money flowing through the US. There is a river of money hidden that could make a huge difference to the nations it was stolen from, and the nations who should be collecting tax on it. We knew there was a problem, this exposes the size of the problem, and now we need to do something about it.
So if you are a US citizen, go forth and read all about it, and keep your eye on the story, and contact your legislators to make sure they know that this is a major issue for you.
If you are a citizen of South Dakota, Alaska, Delaware, Nevada, or New Hampshire, please talk about this with your friends and call your state legislators and tell them that this is UNACCEPTABLE and needs to change.
The Pandora Papers.
Remember about five years ago that huge cache of papers about rich people using elaborate legal fictions to hide wealth and do all sorts of dishonest things with it? From stealing money from their country, to tax evasion on a mind-boggling scale, to far worse things?
Yeah. This is more of that, except like ten times bigger. And, crucially, one of the things it exposes is that a couple of US states (South Dakota, primarily, but also Alaska, Delaware, Nevada and New Hampshire) are MAJOR players in the "hiding rich peoples' money" stakes. There is a river of dirty money flowing through the US. There is a river of money hidden that could make a huge difference to the nations it was stolen from, and the nations who should be collecting tax on it. We knew there was a problem, this exposes the size of the problem, and now we need to do something about it.
So if you are a US citizen, go forth and read all about it, and keep your eye on the story, and contact your legislators to make sure they know that this is a major issue for you.
If you are a citizen of South Dakota, Alaska, Delaware, Nevada, or New Hampshire, please talk about this with your friends and call your state legislators and tell them that this is UNACCEPTABLE and needs to change.
