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Roads and transportation infrastructure. Educated workforces. Courts and legal systems. Innovations sparked by government funding, such as the internet. No one – no matter how smart or hard working – joins the American or global elite without making use of these shared resources.

But while working and middle-class families pay their taxes or face consequences, the Panama Papers remind us that the worst of the 1% have, for years, essentially been stealing access to Americans’ common birthright, and to the benefits of our shared endeavors.
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My two cents.
First of all, not only the united states of america have this tax problem, European nations have the same issue, as well as Russia, I guess even Africa. So this is still the fundamental issue we have to face.
Secondly, I am a bit afraid that know everyone is saying the "universal basic income" is something we need. I still think this would be a great idea, but you know you are getting fooled when hardliners are stating thinking loudly about that topic in a positiv way. History proofed this to often, to badly :-(.