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The World's "Job Creators" Are Hiding 21 Trillion Dollars from Their Home Governments Using Off-Shore Tax Havens

This graphic from Heather Stewart's article in The Guardian UK shows where the world's super-rich are hiding $21,000,000,000,000 (21 trillion dollars) in wealth from their home governments.  

Who knows what words they use to justify such injustice abroad, but here, the words are "Job Creators" and "Trickle-down Economics." Now, it's true that some wealth trickles down, and some who have wealth do create jobs. But for the most part, wealth sneaks out the back door to avoid taxation. 

Whether its safety regulations, consumer protections, environmental protection, or taxation, what the super rich are saying to us is: "We don't wish to follow the laws of this country because doing so would reduce our wealth." 

As we've seen with the flood of money they're spending on Super-PAC's, many in our ruling class don't mind spending mightily for the privilege of making our laws.   But this is still a Republic if we can keep it. To do that, we must go to the polls and vote. We must assert our right as "We the People" to make the laws in this country, and to require all our citizens follow the law, even the ones who call themselves "Job Creators."

PS: Isn't it funny how "Job Creators" rhymes so well with "Tax Evaders?"  Someone needs to write a song, make a bumper sticker, or an info-graphic with that one.

The World’s “Job Creators” Are Hiding 21 Trillion Dollars from Their Home Governments Using Off-Shore Tax Havens

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Before I die...

The artist turned the side of an abandoned house in her neighborhood in New Orleans into a giant chalkboard and stenciled it with the sentence “Before I die I want to _______.” So anyone walking by can pick up a piece of chalk, reflect on their lives. What would YOU like to do before you die?  (comment below) 

Before I die I want to…

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Fla. Republican: We wanted to suppress black votes

In the debate over new laws meant to curb voter fraud in places like Florida, Democrats always charge that Republicans are trying to suppress the vote of liberal voting blocs like blacks and young people, while Republicans just laugh at such ludicrous and offensive accusations. That is, every Republican except for Florida’s former Republican Party chairman Jim Greer, who, scorned by his party and in deep legal trouble, blew the lid off what he claims was a systemic effort to suppress the black vote. In a 630-page deposition recorded over two days in late May, Greer, who is on trial for corruption charges, unloaded a litany of charges against the “whack-a-do, right-wing crazies” in his party, including the effort to suppress the black vote.

Fla. Republican: We wanted to suppress black votes

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