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by jeffh 1511 days ago
"tax bureaucrats" are what took down Al Capone. These days Al would have much better lawyers and layers of shell corporations in various tax havens. He would be untouchable merely because the effort to sleuth out the truth has become much harder. Laws and regulations subdue any advantages transparency tech could bring.
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Are we doomed then? Modern day All Capone“s are now richer than ever, above the laws, buying whole social networks, or becoming potus. Is there anything that can be done?