Congrats, Berney, 8 days, don't give up!
"I find it a murky world where individuals tend to write their own rules"
Berney, not individuals but our proud governments wrote the rules - at least the rules valid in Cayman Island were "written" by the US-government.
First, we (I mean nations like yours or mine) cannot let their dirty, greedy hands from any point on earth - they musted bring their sad imagination of that what they call "civilisation" instead let a place like it has been before.
Than, they put the former owners, now "deliberated" slaves, in huge problems with epedemies, cars, dirty productions, monoculture, chemicals and all the mess we use to destroy our basics.
Finally, they have a problem - some feel "responsible", when they leave their holiday-hotels on these islands for a sightseeing-trip. Of course NEVER would agree that WE have caused the mess we see.
What they do than? They let such islands be "tax-heavens", "hoping", that the "grey capital" will draw "new" employment-offers to the island. Don't forget, a island, where nobody have to must work before our "technology" came in and destroyed their living-basics.
No doubt - on many islands (f.e. here in Canary Islands) they were "poor", when "poor" is not beeing able to buy cars, chocolate-bars, Irish botter, TV-sets and shopping-trips to the 5th avenue.
However: they had all that because a lot of us "supermen" pay the loan of 2-3 month work just for getting their.
Now they are tax-heavens, well tolerated by their imperialistic masters of universe, from Madrid over London to Washington - some, like Andorra, Ceuta and Gibraltar lay middle in high-tax-regions.
What about people who emigrate to such places, at least with "offshore"-companies or their capital?
First, most of them are members of this community that builds the states itself - they are "the upper class", the "top 500", the people having greatest influence in parlaments, industry and government.
Second, when a few "normal" people legally use the rules given by their own countries, doeing exactly the same as their "upper 10000", they are "Steuerflchtlinge" - I don't know how to express that in English.
That's bulls**t.
And - related to US (that's not my problem, of course): A US-civic is not allowed to choose another country as his own. That remembers painfully on our former DDR, doesn't it? It's the same effect, it's the same lack of freedom, when you can't live where and how you like.
My facit: not tax-heavens, not the people living their are "murky", but our "high civilized" systems stink.
Just a few humble thoughts. Comments welcome.
Jury |
