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.
@@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.
@@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
"more than 10 times the current US deficit" - hold on to that, don't forget it. Zero excuses for refusing to enfranchise the US working class and poor. We all knew the money was somewhere. Get loud about this, because the US share of laundered money can likely cover the entire US deficit.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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🤗
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.
@@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.
@@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
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.
@@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.
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.
Frontline PBS airs a deep dive documentary on Tuesday night all about the Pandora Papers. You can see the entire documentary on RU-vid under Frontline.
@@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.....
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 !
Isn't it weird that just the morning after, the main social media networks able to spread the word about this within seconds, suddenly stopped working?
The UK media has been utterly disappointing and silent on this issue since it dropped. A friend of mine works within our taxation organisation HMRC and told me that staff are being actively told not to read or watch anything regarding the Pandora papers, it absolutely stinks
I'm afraid that the disgust concerning this greed and corruption will, as usual, become partisan... And then, once divided, us little people will be able to change nothing. And the rich and powerful will simply watch us tear each other apart.
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.
@@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.
Yet, lower and middle-class people fight each other, blaming each other for their decreasing wealth. It is not You vs your neighbour, It is us vs them.
I love that middle and lower-class people can't even pay taxes, bc of how the pandemic has changed everything and the minimum wage, and getting punished for it, yet you have billionaires avoiding paying their share and no one says anything. the people need change or we'll be suffer more before we realize it.
Great work, fellas. I hope there’s a medal somewhere for people like you, if that’s what you’d like. I imagine you’d appreciate more, something serious done about the situation.
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.
What an actual great report. I hope you do more of these reports. This is what Journalism looks like. Now how about you give these documents to a Judge so we can prosecute these Elitists.
@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?
Rather than closing loopholes and investing more in the IRS, we just need to keep cutting taxes. If we do, money will surely all trickle down at some point. /s
@@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.
@@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?
"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
The rich and powerful have been doing this for thousands of years, it's nothing new and no one should be really shocked that they have been doing this.
"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.
We middle class people are paying taxes for everything we do in our daily life and these scoundrels are having a gala time..thank you ICIJ for this revelation..hope these criminals r taken to jail soon
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.
Their wealth increases dramatically from the money of the simple citizen. The question is how long this situation will continue in light of the spread of poverty and crises??
I live here, this is so F up. Here we are in Sioux Falls hiding billions yet 100 miles away South Dakota reservations are the poorest county's in all of America. High poverty, no jobs, no Healthcare and state of emergency calls for high suicide rates. Smh disgusting!
I hope the people in Alaska, South Dakota, Nevada and Delaware see this video or do research about the Pandora Papers and elect better lawmakers to shutdown these tax havens.
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
A Trust Company is perfectly fine when you’re keeping eyes away from pocket sniffers, but how much do you allow them to hide when it comes to crime? Terrorism too?
"It's highly problematic in terms of ethics" - kind of like taking money by force to fund what our politicians deem necessary. Then knowing that what you worked to earn is being spent in wasteful and inefficient ways as this is known about how government programs operate.
Great reporting. When I watch the full episode, I guess you will develop a list of suggested solutions on how to recover lost tax revenues, so we can have them pay fair share of costs to maintain and improve quality of lives We have old, falling down healthcare, infrastructure, policies that need to be funded
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.
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where it grows rusty and moth-eaten, and thieves will break in to steal it. Store up treasure in heaven, where there is no moth and no rust to spoil it, no thieves to break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” - (Jesus the Messiah, at Matthew 6: 19-20) -
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.
That's really all you can think about? The richest and most powerful people in the world have been evading taxes by the billions for decades, and your only response is "what about her emails"? You're losing the forest for the trees.
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.
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.
Canada Revenue Agency fined me for not reporting 5000 dollars I earned because the employer argued that I was self-employed. Always going after the little guy.
We all knew, but now theres proof, I'm sure it's all "legal" but ethically their reputations are now decimated, any still "serving" should resign or give up their positions. That includes royalty, as this shows that they can never be trusted to do what is right for their "subjects".
It’s the typical case of - Do as I say but not as I do. The little people pay their taxes to meet their civic duties, but the rich and the powerful hid their wealth wherever they can.
@@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.
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.
Humanity has been in a state of a perpetual ethical nightmare since the dawn of civilization. The litany of abuses is vast yet the solutions range from ineffective to virtually nonexistent.
That has already been covered, specifically in the IRS Files investigation by Propublica, which showed how Bezos, among other billionaires, avoided income tax.
