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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGuess What Occupation Is Most Frequently Cited In The Panama Papers?
OK I can wait and edit this after you DON'T GOOGLE' it.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Orrex
(63,291 posts)For that matter, what's a "murd" and what's a "cric?"
valerief
(53,235 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)How naive of me!
whistler162
(11,155 posts)Scottish Food Server(The one with the large M).
Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)I still don't know what it is, or care for that matter.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Now think about that for a second.
I'm sure now they will shut down tax evasion................LOL
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)But O good Lord! What strange phenomenon is this? What name shall we give to it? What is the nature of this misfortune?What is this national vice that permits loss of independence? What vice is it, or, rather, what degradation? To see an endless multitude of people not merely obeying, but driven to servility?
Not ruled, but tyrannized over? These wretches have no wealth, no kin, nor wife nor children, not even life itself that they can call their own. They suffer plundering, wantonness, cruelty, not from an army, not from a barbarian horde, on account of whom they must shed their blood and sacrifice their lives, but from a single man; not from a Hercules nor from a Samson, but from a single little man. Too frequently this same little man is the most cowardly and effeminate in the nation, a stranger to the powder of battle and hesitant on the sands of the tournament; not only without energy to direct men by force, but with hardly enough virility to bed with a common woman! Shall we call subjection to such a leader cowardice?
Shall we say that those who serve him are cowardly and faint-hearted? If two, if three, if four, do not defend themselves from the one, we might call that circumstance surprising but nevertheless conceivable.It is lower than cowardice! In such a case one might be justified in suspecting a lack of courage. But if a hundred, if a thousand endure the caprice of a single man, should we not rather say that they lack not the courage but the desire to rise against him, and that such an attitude indicates indifference rather than cowardice? When not a hundred, not a thousand men, but a hundred provinces, a thousand cities, a million men, refuse to assail a single man from whom the kindest treatment received is the infliction of serfdom and slavery, what shall we call that? Is it cowardice?
Of course there is in every vice inevitably some limit beyond which one cannot go. Two, possibly ten, may fear one; but when a thousand, a million men, a thousand cities, fail to protect themselves against the domination of one man, this cannot be called cowardly, for cowardice does not sink to such a depth, any more than valor can be termed the effort of one individual to scale a fortress, to attack an army, or to conquer a kingdom. What monstrous vice, then, is this which does not even deserve to be called cowardice, a vice for which no term can be found vile enough, which nature herself disavows and our tongues refuse to name?
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https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/boetie/etienne/servitude/chapter1.html
Written about 1550 or so.
Some things never change.
Paper Roses
(7,475 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)But they won't generally be a big group in a breakdown by profession.
malaise
(269,328 posts)politicians, lawyers and international athletes in that order
Recursion
(56,582 posts)philosslayer
(3,076 posts)mountain grammy
(26,676 posts)that's the beauty of the chart.. they are a big fat, bloated bubble in the center who collect from all the rest. Bribery makes one rich, just ask Mitch McConnell.
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Just a guess.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)I did know about the soccer team clubs who came in second, they were the first ones that were called attention to but
after wikileaks complied the data politicians came in first..... yeah, go team!!
So the fox is in charge of the hen house.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)A hard-working optometris I met told me about when he asked his nephew, a former Michigan state representative, about "who gets to keep" those unused campaign contributions after the nephew left state office due to term limits.
"You must have $100,000 in your war chest," he asked.
"Uncle, keep going," the former state senator told him.
"200,000?"
"Keep going."
They got up to around $500,000.
"What are you going to do with it? Give it to the (GOP) party?"
"No, uncle, I'm going to keep it."
"What?" my acquaintance asked. "Isn't that illegal?"
"No, it's legal," the nephew replied, laughing. "Remember, Uncle: We make the laws."
True. Story.
The uncle is an old-line Michigan Republican, a guy who believes in democracy and that the law should apply to everybody.
The nephew is one of the new breed pukes, brought in by former Speaker of the State House and later governor and now head of the National Association of Manufacturers, John Engler, perhaps the most cold-hearted bastard to ever lead the Great Lakes State -- that is, until now, when we have Rick Snyder, tool of the Koch Brothers and the Mackinac Center poisoning Flint and who knows where else for profit.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)and its potential for absolutely MASSIVE corruption.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)...The USA has it's own jurisdictions, such as Delaware and Nevada, where hiding stuff like money and other holdings, is perfected legal like.
Hillary, the Panama Papers, and the death of American kleptocracy
by Will Bunch
Philadelphia Inquirer, April 18, 2016
EXCERPT...
This week, America's McClatchy News Service, part of global consortium that broke the Panama Papers story, noted that a lot of so-called Friends of Bill and/or Hillary were in on the lucrative tax shelters. The news organization reported:
Among them are Gabrielle Fialkoff, finance director for Hillary Clintons first campaign for the U.S. Senate; Frank Giustra, a Canadian mining magnate who has traveled the globe with Bill Clinton; the Chagoury family, which pledged $1 billion in projects to the Clinton Global Initiative; and Chinese billionaire Ng Lap Seng, who was at the center of a Democratic fund-raising scandal when Bill Clinton was president. Also using the Panamanian law firm was the company founded by the late billionaire investor Marc Rich, an international fugitive when Bill Clinton pardoned him in the final hours of his presidency.
There's nothing illegal about the Clintons' close ties to these various international money-stashers, but it's a reminder of how much of their recent life has been spent hobnobbing with the 1 Percent, and sharing their intimate concerns. Indeed, it's important to note that tax havens, by and large, are not illegal, because the most serious graft is almost always the legal kind -- like the tax codes written by the billionaire-backed politicians that have enabled the massive, kleptocratic upward flow of wealth. At the time the Panama Papers story broke, U.S. tax experts said there was no need for Americans to hide wealth in places like Panama when we have havens right here in places like...Delaware.
CONTINUED...
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Hillary-the-Panama-Papers-and-the-fall-of-kleptocracy.html
Perhaps there's hope for a change.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Basically, the tax code is written for the benefit of the few.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,792 posts)tonyt53
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Rex
(65,616 posts)Hmmm...philanthropist?