Re:G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals
by pclmulqdq on Saturday June 05, 2021 @08:42AM
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People do move there. Singapore picks up a ton of US expats, as did Hong Kong before it got swallowed by China. Bermuda and the Caymans have tons of companies and restrict immigration so tightly that they are less attractive.
Re:G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals
by AussieWog93 on Saturday June 05, 2021 @08:53AM
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Singapore has Common Law inherited from the British. Hong Kong also used to have British-style laws, until, as you said, it was "swallowed by China" (and even then, it's fairly Western on paper).
Re:G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals
by peteretep on Saturday June 05, 2021 @08:45AM
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Are you trying to cite Singapore and Hong Kong as countries that aren’t neoliberal?
Re:G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals
by alentist on Sunday June 06, 2021 @01:52AM
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Are you trying to cite Singapore and Hong Kong as countries that are socialist?
Re:G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals
by peteretep on Sunday June 06, 2021 @11:05PM
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Singapore? Yes, obviously: Temasek and GIC own more than 60% of market cap on the Singapore Stock Exchange and 80% of people live in public housing.
Re:G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals
by trainsplanes on Sunday June 06, 2021 @02:50AM
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Are you trying to claim any G7 country is socialist, while suggesting an administrative division of the one-party socialist People’s Republic of China is a good alternative?
Re:G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals
by ffggvv on Sunday June 06, 2021 @02:33AM
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for some reason everyone from socialist companies moved to the US and not the other way around.
Re:G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals
by Chris2048 on Saturday June 05, 2021 @08:25AM
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Because if they did, bombs would soon fall in order to destabilise that threat.
Re:G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals
by lixtra on Saturday June 05, 2021 @08:40AM
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I have difficulties to come up with current examples.
Maybe some could argue that pre Soviet Afghanistan (in the ‘60) was such a place. But today?
Re:G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals
by Chris2048 on Saturday June 05, 2021 @09:32AM
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Its similarly difficult to find examples of competent propaganda ; because anything easily labeled propaganda is not competent.
Scientific and logical principles of "evidence" to not apply to human political systems, b/c the method of inquiry are too compromised by the power the system wields over them. Even information about Afghanistan comes through via the government. But today? There is us nothing modern the government wants you to know about.
Re:G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals
by greenwich26 on Saturday June 05, 2021 @08:27AM
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On the contrary, those countries are extremely popular places to base your business activities or start a company or manage your finances from. Ever been to Bermuda? Or the Virgin Islands? You can't move for wealthy industrious Western expats and their business ventures. And also to a lesser extent Ireland, the Luxembourg, Singapore, Switzerland, etc. These are all some of the most popular countries to move to in the world.
But now the United States and Canada and whoever else is the G7 are trying to shut them down and force everyone to follow their hellish tax laws.
Re:G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals
by trainsplanes on Saturday June 05, 2021 @10:31AM
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Are you implying Ireland, Luxembourg, Bermuda (part of the UK), the Virgin Islands (part of the US and UK), Singapore, and Switzerland aren't western countries part of or at very least allied with and influenced by other western "neoliberal" countries/G7?
Because that's a very, uh, unique idea. Also weird to jump from implying escape from western influence doesn't exist to listing western countries as a way to escape from the west.
Re:G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals
by alentist on Sunday June 06, 2021 @01:54AM
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Are you implying they're socialist?
Re:G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals
by trainsplanes on Monday June 07, 2021 @01:34AM
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I'm directly stating that they're not, and the implication that any G7 country is socialist is bizarre.
For some reason, people from “western neoliberal and socialist” countries generally don’t move to them, though.