RE: [OPE] Why Markets Fail

Interesting - I did not know that they were crown lands. Have the UK
left raised any demands for the Crown/government to anything about
this? Doesn't it have popular support to do something about
international tax evation?

Regards
Anders Ekeland

At 13:37 14.11.2008, you wrote:
>Many of the tax havens ( Jersey, Bahamma, Isle of Mann, Turks and
>Cacos,... ) are
>crown territories so less drastic means could be used by a UK government that
>was serious about it.
>
>Paul Cockshott
>Dept of Computing Science
>University of Glasgow
>+44 141 330 1629
>www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc/reports/
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: ope-bounces@lists.csuchico.edu on behalf of Anders Ekeland
>Sent: Fri 11/14/2008 11:14 AM
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>Subject: Re: [OPE] Why Markets Fail
>
>At 11:54 14.11.2008, you wrote:
> >Anders Ekeland wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>e) International regulation of capital is necessary, tax exchanges
> >>on the stock markets (London has a small tax - increase it
> >>tenfold!) Only one trading day on the stock exchange per month!
> >>Continuos trading has nothing to do with changes in underlying
> >>long-term productive realities! No tax heavens - send the marines
> >>to topple the "financial" terrorist regimes.
>
>
> >Whose Marines?
>
>I was thinking of the US marines, that's what we call the "marines"
>here in Norway (we say it in English too). It was of course
>methaphorically ment, but I think the left wing world wide should
>demand an end to the possiblity of tax evation through tax heavens.
>If there is a will there is a way - and given the present financial
>crisis and willingness among people to "tidy things up" I think we
>should "carpe diem", formulate demands - like the Tobin tax, but also
>more directly having interanational agreements against secret
>accounts etc. - and demanding that real force back those demands. If
>you threaten Iran due to nuclear power, put some pressure on the tax
>heavens to get them to open their books, to have an international
>bank inspection.
>
>Regards
>Anders
>
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