The Paradise Papers & The Global Plutocracy

[JackLuis]

The Paradise Papers Are Proof That Capitalism and Racism Fuel The Global Plutocracy

The Paradise Papers, a stash of over 13 million documents from 19 tax-haven nations and two offshore law firms leaked this month to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, present an archive of global avarice.

Today, the richest one percent own half of the world’s wealth. The Paradise Papers show how this global elite uses offshore tax arrangements, often perfectly legal, to circumvent both the obligations of citizenship as well as the consequences of ownership. The demands which apply to the rest of us—the obligation to pay our taxes, to pay our debts and our civil liabilities—do not apply to them. In many ways, the class war has been won, and the spoils of the victors sit safely sheltered in the Cayman Islands.

Invading the Cayman Islands and sending the IRS down to audit the books will be cheaper and more profitable than Invading Iran!