tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post2056983335207694099..comments2024-03-28T10:10:38.940-04:00Comments on Politics and its Discontents: On Corporate Propaganda and Tax AvoidanceLornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-19923781788608409072013-02-18T15:31:55.412-05:002013-02-18T15:31:55.412-05:00let's hope that people start watching their &#...let's hope that people start watching their 'disappearing acts' a little more closely, Owen.Lornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-29712122512626511522013-02-18T15:30:32.972-05:002013-02-18T15:30:32.972-05:00Thanks, Kev. I'll check it out right away.Thanks, Kev. I'll check it out right away.Lornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-16373349757031355282013-02-18T15:29:39.718-05:002013-02-18T15:29:39.718-05:00As a matter of fact, Anon, the editorial in today&...As a matter of fact, Anon, the editorial in today's print edition of The Toronto Star quotes the secretary-general of the OECD, Angel Gurris, as saying that the issue of tax avoidance is a threat to the very survival of democracy: "If big corporations fail to pay tax and leave it to small and medium enterprises and income groups, it will undermine democracy.<br /><br />Of course, expect the corporations to care not a whit about that warning.Lornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741324981120408977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-89000468654656459662013-02-18T15:17:26.262-05:002013-02-18T15:17:26.262-05:00Like a good magician, the corporate elite knows ho...Like a good magician, the corporate elite knows how to create a distraction to make the profits disappear from the places where they are made, Lorne.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-85959679424828143462013-02-18T15:09:10.040-05:002013-02-18T15:09:10.040-05:00Great post as always Lorne. Here is something you ...Great post as always Lorne. Here is something you may find interesting <a href="http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2013/0113friedman.html" rel="nofollow">The Great Tax-Cut Experiment</a>Kevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17141832889857833324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7884128379999766348.post-8158464155359393532013-02-18T12:51:42.908-05:002013-02-18T12:51:42.908-05:00The democracy we have today is still incomplete, a...The democracy we have today is still incomplete, and perhaps will remain that way, until its control can taken away, for good, from those who would be kings. Their economy, the kings economy if you will, like the kings politics before, and religion at present, needs to be fully democratizied.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com