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Rutger Bregman vs Fox News and Davos: tax avoidance

I can't dig Rutger enough. I've not heard about him until this morning, when I saw this:

https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1098282209834950657?s=20

Destroying tax evasion is actually not hard; as Bregman says, governments can quite easily crack down on tax havens like the Cayman Islands and the Bermudas, and erect laws that basically prevent people from becoming subjugated by capitalists.

Also, this made me very happy:

https://youtu.be/P8ijiLqfXP0

More on that:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/30/wealth-banks-google-facebook-society-economy-parasites

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/30/historian-berates-billionaires-at-davos-over-tax-avoidance