every time a low-income person swipes their ebt card to buy some snacks for themselves or their kids, the fury America feels over "their tax dollars" is so palpable, so tangible you could almost bottle it and sell it as a fragrance, Jour d'Angst.
but when rich people cheat the system by hiding their money in offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes [and, among other things, hide stolen wealth] nobody says boo. the panama papers was a huuuuge leak that exposed how this practice isn't just one or two millionaires but a network of wealthy people and hundreds of thousands of off-shore entities. the amount of taxes they've avoided paying is probably immeasurable as this was a world-wide operation that was far more complex than just "not paying taxes" but i've simplified for the sake of discussion.
anyway, is the righteous indignation people feel about a poor woman pulling a foodstamps card out of her Michael Kors wallet or have we been duped by a low-income smear campaign orchestrated by the elite to convince us all that America is poor because of welfare [which, for the record, we don't actually spend THAT much money on per the federal budget].
but when rich people cheat the system by hiding their money in offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes [and, among other things, hide stolen wealth] nobody says boo. the panama papers was a huuuuge leak that exposed how this practice isn't just one or two millionaires but a network of wealthy people and hundreds of thousands of off-shore entities. the amount of taxes they've avoided paying is probably immeasurable as this was a world-wide operation that was far more complex than just "not paying taxes" but i've simplified for the sake of discussion.
anyway, is the righteous indignation people feel about a poor woman pulling a foodstamps card out of her Michael Kors wallet or have we been duped by a low-income smear campaign orchestrated by the elite to convince us all that America is poor because of welfare [which, for the record, we don't actually spend THAT much money on per the federal budget].