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[โ€“] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The onshore tax havens Delaware, Wyoming, and Nevada are vastly worse in scope than any offshore country. They push the narrative about those "terrible foreign countries" to distract us from this fact.

The problem is US tax code, not offshore financial centers.

[โ€“] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago

Yeah that's a good point, there's plenty tax evasion the oligarchs can do domestically.