If you liked the Panama Papers, youll love the Paradise Papers!
New VideoToon posted at: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/10/1714081/-Cartoon-Stealing-is-legal
Cartoon: Stealing is legal! By Mark Fiore --- Nov 10, 2017
............ If you want to hide your millions from taxation, just find a willing offshore haven to make your megabucks disappear into a maze of shell corporations. Its your money, after all, let the little people worry about building their silly public roads and funding their icky health care! (But we better shove a gigantic corporate tax through the U.S. Congress, just in case an offshore tax rate of, say, zero, is too high.)
Over 380 journalists dug through millions of documents and began releasing what they found this week. Turns out Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross profited from business dealings with Putins son-in-law and a Russian oligarch under sanction. Oops, he forgot to mention that on his disclosure forms! There are loads of revelations in these stories the more you dig, the more youll discover.
Robert Mercer funded Trumps campaign and Steve Bannons America First crusade with cash stashed offshore in Bermuda. (Some Democratic funders and lefty celebrities are mentioned throughout the Panama Papers as well.) Oh, and Apple doesnt stash their money on a Caribbean island, turns out they hide their offshore dough on a tiny island in the English Channel. ...