: re: The True Cost of Hidden Money

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From: barry levine
Date: Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:45 AM
Subject: re: The True Cost of Hidden Money
To: "letters@nytimes.com"

To the Editor:

   Emmanuel Kant observed that inter-personal violence declines when citizens cede what Max Weber termed a "monopoly on violence" to the State. He extrapolated that the world would know peace when States likewise join together in a "League of Nations" each renouncing their own recourse to violence.

   Until we achieve Kant's vision, the "race to the bottom" will take many forms. One form is war. Another is the tax-haven scam, that steals billions in tax revenue from taxpayers world-wide.

Barry Haskell Levine


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/opinion/a-piketty-proteges-theory-on-tax-havens.html?_r=0