I wonder which journalist is going to end up dead to a car bomb for this? I'm certain that nobody gives a fuck about this enough to do anything but I am curious who will end up paying the price for making the knowledge public.
Dude the basic problem with releases such as this is they say "a whole bunch of rich people used every available tax strategy to save money." THERE IS NOTHING ILLEGAL ALLEGED OR PROVEN IN THESE DOCUMENTS. Warren Buffett has made no secret of the fact that he shelters all the money he can, and considers it a grave injustice that his marginal tax rates are lower than anyone else's in his office. This shit ain't new, nor is it controversial: If you're rich? And American? And on this list? It basically says "Robert Durst's tax attorneys are better than his criminal attorneys."
I get that through and through. But: 1. The vast majority of people on Earth support (or would support, were they informed) preventing the wealthy from dodging taxes. 2. The wealthy dodge taxes. Clearly, legislating against tax dodging is difficult and requires constant effort, but that doesn't mean I will resign myself to foregoing it. The least I can do is spread awareness.
Don't think I don't support it. Don't think I want stuff to stay the same. But also don't think Daphne Galizia died because of the leaks in the Pentagon Papers. She died - a year and a half later - because she was tying the mafia into it. Financial record leaks expose hypocrisy. That's it. And the problem is, the kind of people who will murder you for being a journalist have no problems with hypocrisy.
For the uninitiated, OftenBen isn't writing a random assassination plot line.