The COVID humbug thread (2021 edition)

I suspect you don’t care about the truth of this either way, like usual, but that appears to have been done deliberately by the other 7 accounts (one of them appears twice :man_facepalming:) in an effort to discredit the original poster by trying to falsely make them look like a bot:

Here’s the second account admitting it:

https://twitter.com/realjuliasong/status/1420096624613801989?lang=en

Great critical thinking skills there, once again. :man_facepalming:

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5 posts were merged into an existing topic: From coronavirus

It it were bots, it could be easily thousands of tweets and anyone could be behind it.

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This looks more like a joke from a few as @realjuliasong admits.

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It looked like utter nonsense and nice job pointing it out, @Andrew. Memes like this would probably be better for the Funny Political Pictures thread or temp if they’re just being passed along thoughtlessly.

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The covid vaccines are the biggest anti covid measures. Make sense man…

I mean lockdowns and quarantines and other restrictions on basic liberties.

I’m anti tax but I still pay it.
Not much insight there.

There’s always a choice. :hugs:

Actually no there isn’t always a choice.
You are 100% wrong on that.

One can 100% choose not to pay tax, by finding a job or country that allows you to skirt the system.

Whether one is prepared to do so is the question.

Or, work the system in your own favour, where all your expenses become tax write-offs. Even get government grants to conduct your business.

One could register one’s companies off shore. Avoid the tax man altogether.

Avoiding tax seems to be quite the thing:

Or, lobby against taxes.

Or, just pay as little as possible.

They look like they don’t work as stated:

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Shirley you are joking Wesley Snipes. :rofl::rofl::rofl:

Uh huh.

Yeah man.

That’ll work :wave::wave::wave:

Yes, it certainly does. Surely you’ve heard of the Panama Papers.

For years, multinationals such as Pfizer Inc., Merck & Co. and Johnson & Johnson have been moving ownership of patents and trademarks to subsidiaries in low- or no-tax countries. This has allowed drug companies, as well as businesses in several other industries, to skirt paying U.S. taxes on sales of those products unless the money is returned home.

"Businesses, especially those that transact across borders, can enjoy massive tax savings by routing payments, profits or investments through subsidiaries in offshore financial centers.

A big pharmaceutical company, for example, might set up a new entity in Bermuda or the Netherlands, and “sell” that entity a patent for a profitable drug. The parent company might then pay a big licensing fee to the offshore company, which in turn would allow it to record lower profits at home — and pay a lower tax bill. Drug companies have avoided billions of dollars in taxes this way, according to Oxfam.

Each year, companies avoid paying more than $500 billion in taxes using methods like these. Some pay little or no taxes at all in their home countries.

Notable corporate tax avoiders include Apple, Johnson and Johnson and Skype."

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I don’t pay tax. I just keep my earnings really low. Winning.

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That’ll work :slight_smile:

Imagine that:

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Pandemic of the unvaccinated is now the pandemic of the non boosted.

Some doctors have told Boris that up to 90 percent are non boosted. Ha ha. Surely he should have exact figures for the country and not have to rely on some doctors telling him.

The extent of Pfizer’s Covid tax avoidance schemes is worth reading in full, if anyone is interested.

From the article:

Pfizer, originally an American company, will most likely funnel the billions it receives from governments for its vaccine through tax havens – just as it does with its other earnings. These include the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Ireland and Delaware. For example, in the Dutch company register we can find a Dutch LLC, AHP Manufacturing, that belongs to Pfizer and falls under a Luxembourg-based holding company, Pfizer Shareholdings Intermediate SARL. That corporation’s statutes, in turn, show the involvement of corporations in Gibraltar.

Many of Pfizer’s activities outside the US fall under a Dutch corporation in Capelle aan den IJssel: C.P. Pharmaceuticals International CV (CPPI). CPPI has more than 350 holdings world-wide, including dozens in the tax havens Ireland (25) and Luxembourg (26).

In the fiscal year 2018/19, CPPI turned over a phenomenal 40.3 billion dollars (some 36 billion euros), and booked an enormous profit of 11.9 billion dollars (10.7 billion euros). And that with just 220 employees. By comparison, 1,200 people work at the Ahold Delhaize headquarters in Zaandam.

CCPI’s profits over the past decade vary from 10 billion dollars in 2010 to nearly 20 billion dollars in 2017. Added up, its profits amount to the astronomical sum of 169,5 billion dollars over ten years.

A regular guest in tax havens

Pfizer makes no secret of the fact that it pays considerably less tax proportionally than your corner bakery. Its 2020 annual report notes an ‘effective tax rate’ of 13.5 percent (p. 63). The annual report of the CPPI corporation in Capelle aan den IJssel, states that it had an ‘effective tax rate’ of 14.7 percent over 2018/19. In other words: CPPI paid 2 billion dollars in tax. The previous year that had still been 17.4 percent, amounting to over 3 billion dollars in tax.

That sounds like a handsome contribution to the Dutch treasury, but unfortunately that is not the case: these numbers refer to what its foreign subsidiaries pay in their country of origin. A few pages further down, it becomes clear that CPPI pays nothing at all in the Netherlands. The annual report states: ‘In accordance with Dutch tax laws, CPPI CV is considered transparent in regard to Dutch taxes, and is therefore not subject to Dutch corporate or dividend taxes.’ The 10-billion-euros profit is therefore tax free. All profit can be paid out as dividend to the shareholders, without being taxed.

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Possible re-post.

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