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by tanto 3543 days ago
Why should the biggest villains get amnesty when small time crooks get sentenced for life? I would rather prefer if the ones doing the worst crimes resulting in millions of people dying because of poverty get also sentenced for life.
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Are you more interested in punishing people, or repatriating money from tax havens and using it to solve national problems, including poverty?
>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.

I'm interested in both.