NPR: “Offshore Tax Havens”

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[quote=UCGal][quote=sdduuuude][quote=CA renter]One more expense I forgot to address is private contractors who significantly overcharge the govt.
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I don’t disagree with this, but it seems that this is exactly what the unions are – private contractors overcharging the government. Same thing, really.[/quote]

The net result to the taxpayer may be the same… but where those overcharged dollars end up is very different. Concentrated at the top, or spread among the workers…[/quote]

Absoluetely correct, UCGal. The incomes of public workers is almost entirely spent right back into the economy that supports them (local taxpayers). Not so with high-level executives and “investors” who can take their money to other countries or spend it on yachts, planes, mansions, etc. in different locations.

Also, public sector employees are far more accountable than their private-sector counterparts.

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The Title is misleading. The title of the article should be

How Offshore Tax Havens Help Companies STEAL Billions from Tax Payers.

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The Title is misleading. The title of the article should be

How Offshore Tax Havens Help Companies STEAL Billions from Tax Payers.

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The Title is misleading. The title of the article should be

How Offshore Tax Havens Help Companies STEAL Billions from Tax Payers.

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The Title is misleading. The title of the article should be

How Offshore Tax Havens Help Companies STEAL Billions from Tax Payers.

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The Title is misleading. The title of the article should be

How Offshore Tax Havens Help Companies STEAL Billions from Tax Payers.

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[quote=CA renter][quote=gandalf][quote=paramount]I would say no more than 90% of our financial problems were caused by the public employee unions in California.[/quote]

Back it up, paramount. Bring facts.

Or were you just ‘making shit up’?

I see some problems with public unions, what’s happened here in the City of San Diego is corrupt to the core.

But compared to getting gang-raped by the financial industry, the problems are minor. Do the math. As a matter of proportion, we have bigger problems than unions.

Right-wing populists, tea partiers, should be upset with wall street, banks and corporations. Instead they bitch to no end about liberals, unions and hollywood.

Entire generation of clueless idiots re-living Vietnam while corporations and robber barons plunder the country into oblivion.[/quote]

Remember how the Tea Party originally started out as being against bailing out bankers and FBs? Then, it quietly morphed into being anti-union, anti-healthcare, and anti-taxes. I don’t think that was an accident.[/quote]

I agree. I have to say though the handlers behind them are pretty brilliant. The economic crisis was largely caused by wall street and reckless risk taking. But now somehow the blame falls on public employee unions. Really???

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[quote=CA renter][quote=gandalf][quote=paramount]I would say no more than 90% of our financial problems were caused by the public employee unions in California.[/quote]

Back it up, paramount. Bring facts.

Or were you just ‘making shit up’?

I see some problems with public unions, what’s happened here in the City of San Diego is corrupt to the core.

But compared to getting gang-raped by the financial industry, the problems are minor. Do the math. As a matter of proportion, we have bigger problems than unions.

Right-wing populists, tea partiers, should be upset with wall street, banks and corporations. Instead they bitch to no end about liberals, unions and hollywood.

Entire generation of clueless idiots re-living Vietnam while corporations and robber barons plunder the country into oblivion.[/quote]

Remember how the Tea Party originally started out as being against bailing out bankers and FBs? Then, it quietly morphed into being anti-union, anti-healthcare, and anti-taxes. I don’t think that was an accident.[/quote]

I agree. I have to say though the handlers behind them are pretty brilliant. The economic crisis was largely caused by wall street and reckless risk taking. But now somehow the blame falls on public employee unions. Really???

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[quote=CA renter][quote=gandalf][quote=paramount]I would say no more than 90% of our financial problems were caused by the public employee unions in California.[/quote]

Back it up, paramount. Bring facts.

Or were you just ‘making shit up’?

I see some problems with public unions, what’s happened here in the City of San Diego is corrupt to the core.

But compared to getting gang-raped by the financial industry, the problems are minor. Do the math. As a matter of proportion, we have bigger problems than unions.

Right-wing populists, tea partiers, should be upset with wall street, banks and corporations. Instead they bitch to no end about liberals, unions and hollywood.

Entire generation of clueless idiots re-living Vietnam while corporations and robber barons plunder the country into oblivion.[/quote]

Remember how the Tea Party originally started out as being against bailing out bankers and FBs? Then, it quietly morphed into being anti-union, anti-healthcare, and anti-taxes. I don’t think that was an accident.[/quote]

I agree. I have to say though the handlers behind them are pretty brilliant. The economic crisis was largely caused by wall street and reckless risk taking. But now somehow the blame falls on public employee unions. Really???

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[quote=CA renter][quote=gandalf][quote=paramount]I would say no more than 90% of our financial problems were caused by the public employee unions in California.[/quote]

Back it up, paramount. Bring facts.

Or were you just ‘making shit up’?

I see some problems with public unions, what’s happened here in the City of San Diego is corrupt to the core.

But compared to getting gang-raped by the financial industry, the problems are minor. Do the math. As a matter of proportion, we have bigger problems than unions.

Right-wing populists, tea partiers, should be upset with wall street, banks and corporations. Instead they bitch to no end about liberals, unions and hollywood.

Entire generation of clueless idiots re-living Vietnam while corporations and robber barons plunder the country into oblivion.[/quote]

Remember how the Tea Party originally started out as being against bailing out bankers and FBs? Then, it quietly morphed into being anti-union, anti-healthcare, and anti-taxes. I don’t think that was an accident.[/quote]

I agree. I have to say though the handlers behind them are pretty brilliant. The economic crisis was largely caused by wall street and reckless risk taking. But now somehow the blame falls on public employee unions. Really???

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[quote=CA renter][quote=gandalf][quote=paramount]I would say no more than 90% of our financial problems were caused by the public employee unions in California.[/quote]

Back it up, paramount. Bring facts.

Or were you just ‘making shit up’?

I see some problems with public unions, what’s happened here in the City of San Diego is corrupt to the core.

But compared to getting gang-raped by the financial industry, the problems are minor. Do the math. As a matter of proportion, we have bigger problems than unions.

Right-wing populists, tea partiers, should be upset with wall street, banks and corporations. Instead they bitch to no end about liberals, unions and hollywood.

Entire generation of clueless idiots re-living Vietnam while corporations and robber barons plunder the country into oblivion.[/quote]

Remember how the Tea Party originally started out as being against bailing out bankers and FBs? Then, it quietly morphed into being anti-union, anti-healthcare, and anti-taxes. I don’t think that was an accident.[/quote]

I agree. I have to say though the handlers behind them are pretty brilliant. The economic crisis was largely caused by wall street and reckless risk taking. But now somehow the blame falls on public employee unions. Really???

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