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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
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My solution:
Your tax burden is your tax burden. If it's 15% and you run off to a country where it's 5% to avoid taxes, that's fine. You can pay them 5%.
But you're still on the hook for the remaining 10%.
If the 5% country tries to act as a tax haven and refuses to enforce the remaining 10%, they get a national embargo until they get in line.
I have to repeat my response here, that is meaningless, when their taxable income is meaningless. How much did Trump pay in taxes again? The trick is to keep it tied up in an "investment" until they need it.
Isn't that already how it works? Currently, US citizens still have to pay taxes when living outside the country unless they're paying taxes to a specific set of other countries. Although consequences are on the individual who fails to pay and not their country of residence.
I'm not saying for US citizens and US companies. That's how they avoid taxes - by registering in anther country.
Any person or company that does business in the US, even tangentially.
You're based out of Panama? Cool. Pay them what they require, then pay the remaining X that a US company would own to either Panama, the US, or some other country you operate within.
Don't grant them tax havens.
Welcome to yet another world war I guess?
We're due.