What are the Pandora Papers? 

Everyone, regardless of wealth, should be held accountable to all laws. Rich people simply have the means to hire expensive lawyers to protect themselves. I'm not happy about it either when the rich get away with it.

What was that old saying? “THEM THAT HAS GETS. THEM THAT HAS NOT, EVEN THAT THAT HE HAS SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY”

@@blackjay5338 they simply don’t bother chasing the rich because it’s just so easy to get the little guy. Yes everyone should pay their way because that’s fair but what is not fair is the rich well paid tax department officials deliberately targeting the poor because it’s an easy win. Then they hit the high end bars to celebrate the win over the little guy.

Kamala Harris is 1 of them!

Someone always has to instigate arguments using politics...

stupid you, its just one power group attacking another power group

They should have jailed 🙏🙏🙏

@@marcsimpsons1769 Silly you, thinking Washington post is doing anything but covering up for Bezos and the ultra elite.

@@marcsimpsons1769 If he didn't the government would have charged him with such during all those investigations. Its hilarious when you hear people in government screaming for someone's tax returns, like people aren't filing taxes with the government... No that was all to smear him and his business partners for political hit pieces, its just those on the left don't seem bright enough to understand this basic concept, probably because most have never filed taxes. lol

Wow you're talkin about the Washington Post here they're just covering for their friends and riding about the opposition

The rich and famous own the WP. This is no smoking gun.

Supposedly, the new QFS satellites will do just that.

@@Accurate_Disclosures The Rich and Famous will put out ads and hire social media bot services to convince our least educated that the news is fake and that this reporting is false. Anything to hide their money and crimes.

They cover for the Rich and Famous Elites everyday this is just the garbage news

Sure that Bezos hasn't left WP alone? Elon manages the media fine w/o being top shareholder in a paper. Forever Greatful and amazed at all the positive work each has done for the advancement of Humanity🤗

That value is for the entire planet and not just the US.

How would we enfranchise the poor? Running more deficits and inflating the money supply higher?

The nerve of conservatives/plutocrats waging war on the poor and abroad and then asking how we can pay for X working class social system. I thought the panama papers were the moment this would turn around, but I fear this is going to be more of the same; no change.

@@blarpusbundersnatch9431 so you assume the Democrats and progressives are not a part of this too. Many US billionaires are progressive Democrats.

@@nykka3 Um no. The US democratic party is decidedly right wing and corporatist. I would say there are few true billionaire progressives, as acquiring such wealth necessitates that you step on the necks of the poor/working class to get there, and you need to dodge taxes at the same time. The foundation of capitalism is owned by the right, and this is how it ends up.

Impossible when crooks are fundamental to politics. 10% for the big guy was installed into the White House and his son conviently starts selling paintings for $500k, it will just comtinue to get worse.

Damn straight!

@@chrisstuart6651 It's not just democrats, it's republicans also, so let's be fair.

@@laurakrajnikburick2731 That's definitely true. Same applies to independents etc...

@@chrisstuart6651 It’s people on both sides. Also, this article is mainly about apolitical people who are so wealthy, all it takes to get their way is a phone call to whichever gov’t they need from. I will add that your rich neighbors who have nice houses and cars are not these people. You nor I know any of these people…let’s please get real about that.

That's why we all have to give up on the official monies of the world and render their hordes useless.

@@taylorbug9 Brilliant idea. Not easy to do though.

@@taylorbug9 How would this look? I've thought about this and envisioned it as bringing communities together locally and leaving the grid. Self sustained communes (or tribes if people prefer that term) might be a way to go

Including former president of El Salvador Alfredo Cristiani of ARENA political party.

They should have jailed 🙏🙏🙏

I'm from Pakistan and our ex prime minister's name was in the panama papers, he was convicted in that case and had to leave office and was to be imprisoned for 10 years but he left the Country for health issues lol.

You are wrong, there are (were) consequences for the perpetrators.

@@Ahmadkhan-zs4vm I’m guessing he was allergic to prison.

@@rashad123us nah he just had to pretend he was sick and wanted to leave the country and go to England for treatment and now it's been 4 years he has not returned. Our courts were so stupid that they let him go.

I am surprised the Washington Post has not deleted your comment. They keep deleting mine. As if we regular poor people didn't know this was happening. Give me a break. SMH.

Have u looked into who was exposed in the papers? Let me know when you find any prominent politician. U wont.

The rich are the ones who make the laws. They’d have to police themselves and they won’t.

The only way we will get true justice is if we all take it into our own hands. There's more of us than there is of them. Remember, Remember or Please to remember The fifth of November, The gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot.

I think it's going to have to get real ugly before the american public demands this, prosperity gospel mindset coupled with endowing capitalism with magical growth ideology will have to die first.

Because Congress is rich.

Sure wish I could watch.... here in Kansas City, PBS claims they're having a problem with their antenna/signal reach. Hmmmm.........

All Senses Firing All you have to do is find Frontline on RU-vid they air all their documentaries and extended interviews ON RU-vid.

@@allsensesfiring Frontline PBS has its own RU-vid channel and you can stream from their own website. Pretty sure most TVs are digital channels now, too.....

Thanks for the heads up👍

@Wayne Green you're on youtube buddy

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Nah he's just gloating thinking look at me; I'm not even a president & I'm on the $100. Gave us electricity and bifocals though.

@@neilfeinberg7825 when you speak of electricity. I think of Nikola Tesla

Send it to me. I’ll check it out

@The Real Gordon Ramsay I went cross eyed reading that and I can’t be the only one.

hear hear!! ✊🏻❤️

So, basically, the squid game is real life portrayed in children's games.

Agree

Does anyone really believe our politicians only get what we know about? The lobbyists can set up hidden offshore accounts for their “friends “.How can it be that politicians speak loudly about overpriced pharmaceuticals, but when they vote the public always loses? Just enough Democrats are bought off to join most Republicans to screw us.

@@goldenshine9434 you can thank the tax rebate and write off the Republicans have provided over the past 20years... to all their corporate friends. Big corps and money have corrupted BOTH SIDES! WE NEED YOUNG DIVERSE PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES !

In this life only the poor are labeled criminals, rich people that break the law are called businessmen

If the money belongs to them then the people trying to take it are the criminals.

Politicians made these laws so they could hide their money from the voter base.

It is almost always done legally. That is why everyone in DC is super rich. They won’t make legislation that will hurt them or their money inflow.

The system is broken, and allows for these flagrant ethical and moral violations.

Lol, you mean tear them apart. They aren't safe either. I think you'd be surprised at how many people hate the rich.

Wash, rinse, repeat. Hate your neighbor. There is nothing you can do to change things. We know the playbook. Sadly, a great many of us continue to fall for it.

@Abigail Stockwell No, they aren't. You've seen the protests, the way people behaved out of frustration. Liberation will come when the world's wealthy get slaughtered. Once enough people lose faith in the system, they'll come for them. I think the rich among us are incredibly naive to think the public won't start attacking them.

@Abigail Stockwell Violence is the first step toward that change. I'm not aware of one major social shift without the bloodshed. I wish things could be done peacefully. As a species, we haven't demonstrated the capability to act in accordance with peace. We always have to destroy everything first.

@Abigail Stockwell you dont understand how people are now, they dont want to lead, they just want to be on there phones or drinking coffee most people dont even vote anymore yet alone care

Max I think you just made up your quote about US elected and appointed figures. Tell me the time in the video which includes your quote. I can’t find it.

@@jakemoseley1811 They said politicans.

@@laurakrajnikburick2731 Laura, politicians outside the US were described. The free press in the US makes it almost impossible for US senators, representatives, and federal government officials to be crooked.

The Bush family has had tenticles throughout the world economy for decades.

@@jakemoseley1811 sarcasm?

Very interesting. I salute the journalists working on this. A perfect name Pandora Papers.

@Abigail Stockwell you honestly think the people of this country could even run it right anymore, i dont think so this country is gone because of the people

@Abigail Stockwell Offshore banks Accounts is popular to hide legal or illegal. Thé US requires citizens to provide report of FBAR ( Foreign Bank &Financial Account) for IRS purposes. BUT I wonder why there’s no law that must be applicable to all countries. This is interesting because Malta and Cyprus issues a Golden Passport citizenship scheme. This was reported by BBC and AJ investigative report. So wealthy nationals can take dual nationality?

WaPo ARE elitists!

Do these elitists work within the medical world ?

"5 big leaks of tax-haven records before the Pandora Papers" Revelations about the secret accounts of the rich and famous have come in waves CBC News · Posted: Oct 10, 2021 Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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'Corruption Rank in Panama increased to 111 in 2020 from 101 in 2019. source: Transparency International' TRADING ECONOMICS

Then dont

Absitively, posilutely! Rich does not connotate intelligence, or empathy. Greed, maybe. Avarice, probably. Entitlement, yeah.

Who has ever said that?

Stop watching OAN too

As well as Ben Schapiro and Jordan Peterson

You're so right

As long as it is legal. I can understand folk getting up in arms over criminals doing this, but for just the general rich, it is still legal. Change the laws, and thus change the process...... in theory. In all likelyhood they will find another way to evade. They always do.

Actually you’d be surprised. This can lead to changes in laws and legislation!

yep. nothing at all. its business as usual. so damm sad man

Kenyan President has steal 36billions and hide there

It’s the “Golden Rule”; those with the gold make the rules.

“Let them eat cake”

That is the question that everyone should by asking.

Sounds like Bezos is allowing WP to be independent. Not that I think he's a great guy or anything.

There was a plan for fair tax by Mike Gravel

We should crank up taxes to 90% so socialists could understand what the laffer curve is

@@ashdraked The US thrived economically when the marginal tax rate was at 90% for the wealthiest Americans, but okay. The guy who coined the term “Laffer curve” is also responsible for developing the strategy which has led to our downfall as a nation over the last four decades. Ever since we’ve implemented the Two Santa Claus Theory, the US has declined in happiness, quality of life, socioeconomic mobility, government debt (overall, per capita, and relative to GDP), median income, transportation infrastructure, utilities infrastructure, etc.

@@thedebatehitman cope, barely anyone paid 90% rates check the record bud

@@ashdraked 1. I never claimed that all persons subject to the tax bracket paid 90% marginal taxes on their income. Rather, I merely sought to rebut your mentioning of the Laffer curve and its supposed utility as a predictor of economic growth. 2. Did the US suffer economically when it implemented a 90% marginal tax rate? Yes or no? 3. Did the US debt triple during Reagan’s administration after he implemented the Two Santa Claus Theory, as proposed by the same man who founded the term “Laffer Curve”? Yes or no? 4. Have metrics of social and economic well-being improved, declined, or stayed roughly the same since the US implemented the Two Santa Claus Theory?

ChinaJoe bitched about "pay your fair share" knowing it's always the middle class that pays thru the nose, his buddy BEZOS has not paid a penny all those years and he's the richest man on planet earth, the low info voters voted for the freebies, Brandon made me laugh saying the "Build back better" is popular w the folks, if you ask if they want freebies, of course they all said yes, if you ask that they are the ones finally paying for it, NOT THE RICH WHO KNOW HOW TO DODGE TAXES, the answer would be no. the GOP did a lousy job explaining to the dump voters. God help us if we don't take back the house from the commies in 2022.

Great question 🤔

"Same as it ever was" replies tend to encourage folks to shrug and move on. Yes it's "not new", but maybe more light on issues means that we'll be that much closer to fixing things

@@JamesRNewman that’s exactly why we shouldn’t let it continue, the wealthy should be reined in. They should not be allowed to hide their debt or financial problems. The rest of us can’t. The IRS goes for blood when we don’t pay our taxes, why should the wealthy and elite be any different.

Many of them being in DC!!!

@@suzannethepatriot8049 politicians of both sides. Not just the ones you don't like buddy

@@HoloScope Did I say otherwise?!

You want the US to become North Korea on steroids?

@@christianfreedom-seeker934 what are you talking about?

@Gaussianform this sounds believable, but I've not seen evidence of it. Are no u.s. citizens named?

Ain't nobody could ever get close.

Hello how are you doing, my name is josh mark i bring you good news

O!!! YA!!! Just what are you going to do about it??? I really don't care, because you or I can't do anything about it!

The Washington Post alone is reporting on this. It's only one of hundreds of need outlets who have collaboratively worked on this story. Same with the Paradise and Panama Papers. You can't dismiss everything they've done just because you don't like WaPo.

Wonder if Bezos happens to be mentioned in the papers? Lol

Ill get to the bottom in a few seconds lol. Money is created from nothing. All Politics thrive on money. The world's central banks in every "first world" country rely on the dollar as their reserve currency and feed the US treasury black hole of debt or become overvalued and unable to compete trading anything globally. The vast majority are encouraged by media to admire the same people that own all media and create money from nothing.

Control information

Just taking out the competition is all

@@TurdFergusen right control

it is almost as if this report is to attack his competition. They should really go after 'shell' corporations and other legal evasions. But, like more taxes fixed any problem lol.

@@timm-ru9ii they should just eliminate the IRS. It was set up the same time as the FED……hmmmmm. More of satans minions.

Start local, and go from there.

LOL. Will never happen. They are the ones in power. They tell you they care about you and want to help you. It is a smoke screen so that they keep doing what is good only for them and their elite friends. Until people wake up and stop thinking they “care”…LOL! People are so ignorant.

If only

What do the Pandora Papers show? 'The leak of 11.9 million confidential documents names heads of state, billionaires and celebrities who use offshore companies to acquire mansions, private jets and stakes in companies, with little or no transparency.' 07 Oct 2021 Source: CNA Channel

No, it is not reported comming out nor going in. Hence, the problem with these shadow corporations. Tax those with the least so the Beast can glut.

@@johndavis1625 Bottom 50% account for 3% of taxes collected. Just saying. BTW the real poor people don't pay any taxes.

@@OutSideTheBoxFormat duh we keep the economy moving jackass.

@@OutSideTheBoxFormat Really? You have a strange skew of TAXES, very strange indeed. Over and above the 22% upon all gross income, there is the Sales Tax upon ALL consumable products that the vast majority is paid by those who fall far below those considered "wealthy" or even "Middle Class". Then lets talk Property Tax, not just Real estate, but vehicle, FET, Fuel, etc. So, try again to explain how the "Poor" pay no taxes.

@@OutSideTheBoxFormat You are so full of Bullshit that your eyes have become brown.

This

Remember 1798 ?

Always

If you want to know more, please read the Panama and Paradise Papers. While your at it, also read the IRS Files obtained by Propublica.

That would be done by the govt, which is staffed, owned, and run by the people doing this. Doesn't seem likely.

The medical places don't even accept insurances.

Dream on, my friend.

@Wayne Green how is OP a sycophant?

@Wayne Green you too busy or scared to answer the question?

Is IceT going to be in it?

@Kiki Love You do know the FBI set the whole thing up. They have admitted it. I suggest you stop typing ignorance and get you some FACTS

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"Ya gotta have a fall guy." -Chris Carter

Conspiratard cope

It is strange I have not yet seen or heard from a US citizen: politicians, billionaires, millionaires, companies, athletes, singers, actors in the pandora papers. Washington has given the leaked information from around the world except them to journalists

@@sebwarren9892 They already have their own ways of dodging taxes other than the methods described in the Pandora Papers. See the U.S tax system as an example.

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That has already been covered, specifically in the IRS Files investigation by Propublica, which showed how Bezos, among other billionaires, avoided income tax.

They do. The IRS gives them a pass.