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"As they say, hate the game, not the player."

Why?

Change the quite strong word "hate" to something less extreme and polarizing and then let's discus why it is OK, acceptable and not out right destructive to setup and use and actually benefit from those tax avoidance schemes?

Blame the game? The corporation?

Well, how about the small (or not soo small in case of CFOs) particles making up a corporation, the CFOs and their teams actually seeking and personally benefiting from those actions.

How comes these people are not to blame? Rules of Law ARE NOT the final instance of morality or of constructive social conduct... or are they? Only for the "rational agents", i guess.

The game is to blame, the gov/civil-organizations on almost all sides are to blame, the corporations are to blame, the individuals driving this are to blame, too.

ps: how "rational" is it for a corporation to avoid its share pay back to the society? It due time to close these morality-loopholes. Actually that's the only way, i think, to tackle these problems: a change in socially acceptable behavior because there is no way we can close all loopholes in all the laws. Those people (yes, people and not abstract 'corporations') in the end "should not want to" circumvent the tax-obligations.



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