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by Shaanie 812 days ago
Tax havens is a race-to-the-bottom thing, just like not caring about emissions. Or using slaves, if you want a more extreme example.

If your country's only advantage is to steal tax money from other countries, or provide cheap energy by burning coal, or cheap labor by using slaves, then it's perfectly fine to isolate that country to force it to stop. We obviously shouldn't just accept that everyone is worse off just so that a country with no other advantage can thrive.

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> If your country's only advantage is to steal tax money

Your assumption seems to be that countries have a right to someone's productivity even after they emigrate elsewhere.

Care to actually defend this point?

How many people mentioned in the Panama Papers actually live in Panama?