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Re:Panama: The Hidden Trillions on Sunday October 09, 2016 @02:57PM (#12672756)
The laws say whatever politicians want them to say. If you pay the people who write the laws to turn your tax evasion into a legalized form of "tax avoidance," the inverse can just as easily be done to turn "tax avoidance" back into "tax evasion."
Re:Panama: The Hidden Trillions on Sunday October 09, 2016 @02:54PM (#12672736)
>repatriating money from tax havens and using it to solve national problems, including poverty

There is little evidence that this will actually occur, otherwise places like Panama would be utopian paradises from all of the foreign cash. You can't solve "national problems, including poverty," if you refuse to tax the incoming money and instead let it continue to sit in corporate coffers.

Re:Panama: The Hidden Trillions on Sunday October 09, 2016 @02:13PM (#12672460)
Or, you know, we could just seize the assets because of tax evasion. But that will never happen because our politicians are in the pocket of the robber barons.
When you say "engineers," do you mean actual engineers (i.e. aerospace, control and power systems, etc.), or just web and app developers?
You need to check your sources. Uber is hemorrhaging money and lost 1.2 billion dollars in the first half of this year alone.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-25/uber-lose...