The flaw here is that they're not following the laws that we the people have enacted. They're following the laws that they themselves have lobbied for and bought the legislators to pass for them.
If you only condone taking legal courses of action, how would you go about opposing those billions and the leverage over the legislative process that brings?
It's all well and good to take a moral high ground and say no one should ever break laws, but when the laws are exploitative and the legislators are beyond real influence, what other recourse is there?
Do you have evidence of them buying laws that allow them to not pay taxes until a capital gain is recognized? Because that’s the crux of this whole article, that they’re paying a small percentage of their “wealth gained”. As far as I’m aware, capital gains have never been taxed on eg company stock in the US before a sale triggers it, so it can hardly be considered the work of this group.
It gets substantially murkier, too, when you consider that much of the nominal valuation gains on their assets might be attributable to the dollar being essentially devalued vs hard assets.
If you only condone taking legal courses of action, how would you go about opposing those billions and the leverage over the legislative process that brings?
It's all well and good to take a moral high ground and say no one should ever break laws, but when the laws are exploitative and the legislators are beyond real influence, what other recourse is there?