{"id":200303,"date":"2021-05-16T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/16\/of-course-they-do\/"},"modified":"2021-05-16T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T23:10:00","slug":"of-course-they-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/16\/of-course-they-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course They Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK, normally the United States&#8217; poodle in all matters, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a249285a-796f-40e3-a00a-f1398e249ef9\">not offering its support for Biden&#8217;s global business tax plan<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is not a surprise.&nbsp; The British financial sector, known colloquially as the City of London, has two areas where it dominates world markets: Tax evasion and currency speculation.<\/p>\n<p>The US may dominate the UK, but the City of London owns the whole government, lock, stock and barrel.<\/p>\n<p>Of course they are objecting to a plan with makes revenue shifting a less profitable enterprise.&nbsp; It&#8217;s their profits that they are protecting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK, normally the United States&#8217; poodle in all matters, is not offering its support for Biden&#8217;s global business tax plan.&nbsp; This is not a surprise.&nbsp; The British financial sector, known colloquially as the City of London, has two areas where it dominates world markets: Tax evasion and currency speculation. The US may dominate 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":[970,1004,1017,983,1286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-international-finance","category-taxes","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200303"}],"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=200303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}