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"Right-wing billionaires hoped an obscure legal case would blow up the tax code to avoid paying what they owe, but this effort failed," said the Democratic senator after the **Moore v. United States decision.

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[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

$15,000 in taxes from a foreign business they ran overseas. They easily spent ten times that in legal fees, consultants, travel, and expenses fighting the bill.

[-] retrospectology@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago

I have little trust in Warren to mean anything she says.

[-] hibsen@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Well let's see here...

She's spent the majority of her time in the Senate championing holding financial institutions accountable, up to and including asserting that particularly shady bankers should be criminally investigated.

She made the CFPB happen.

She's one of several senators who have attempted to reintroduce a version of the Glass-Steagall act to separate FDIC banks from investment banks and hedge funds (and to shrink them so they can't use government bailouts from the FDIC when they inevitably try to screw you).

Yeah man she ain't perfect. Pretty sure she's got this shit, though.

I'd certainly trust a Senator that's actually done something consistently progressive in US politics over some random commenter on Lemmy who's likely done nothing beyond whining online to force an absurd level of purity on politicians who can't really help being fallible and human sometimes.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

Why, Mr. Russian Agent?

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