{"id":192154,"date":"2009-05-04T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/04\/obama-to-go-after-offshore-tax-havens\/"},"modified":"2009-05-04T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T04:01:00","slug":"obama-to-go-after-offshore-tax-havens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/04\/obama-to-go-after-offshore-tax-havens\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama to Go After Offshore Tax Havens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is actually a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aIUBLp0sxeEU&amp;refer=home\">very good idea<\/a>, see also <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124144387757983265.html#mod=rss_whats_news_us\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you will hear a lot of hand wringing about &#8220;free trade,&#8221; and &#8220;global competitiveness,&#8221; but the real reason that there will be objections is because these folks believe that only the little people pay taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I would go further, and label the worst of them as money laundering nations, which is what they are, and forbid US banks from doing business with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is actually a very good idea, see also here. Of course, you will hear a lot of hand wringing about &#8220;free trade,&#8221; and &#8220;global competitiveness,&#8221; but the real reason that there will be objections is because these folks believe that only the little people pay taxes. Personally, I would go further, and label the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,964,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-foreign-relations","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}