David Sirota connects the Panama free-trade pact to the president’s announced crack down on tax havens, pointing out that Panama is one of the bigger violators of tax-haven transparency rules around.
Sorry, but pretending to be for cracking down on tax havens while pushing a trade deal that rewards one of the biggest tax havens – and codifies that tax haven’s laws into our international trade system – insults the public’s intelligence.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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