segunda-feira, 14 de outubro de 2019

Money laundering, BOST bombs and Universal Basic Income-UBI




After Europol director mentioned that “Professional money launderers...are running billions of illegal drug and other criminal profits through the banking system with a 99 percent success rate" https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-money-laundering-is-losing-the-fight-against-dirty-money-europol-crime-rob-wainwright/

Here comes Canada that shows a record that is even worse  
                         
Also Berkeley Professor Gabriel Zucman that had studied the countries with more wealth in tax havens http://gabriel-zucman.eu/hidden-wealth/ (image above) just co-authored a paper entitled “Tax Evasion and Inequality” where one can read that:  “tax evasion is highly concentrated among the rich...we find that the 0.01 percent richest households evade about 25 percent of their taxes” https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20172043

In that context and since some German researchers have conclude that inequality can boost terrorism https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2019/09/2019-paper-by-german-researchersincome.html this means that this problem will inevitably be solved using bombs. Of the conventional type or BOST bombs (Bolsonaro, Orban, Salvini, Trump) the ones lately used by those marginalized by globalization to attack the status quo.

But a far more effective solution than conventional or BOST bombs would be to admit that it is impossible to tax the super-rich (or the tech giants like Google or Apple who even boast about their tax evasion) is no more than captivating a small percentage of all the world's wealth and then distribute it as Universal Basic Income-UBI to all inhabitants of the Planet. A captivation of only 11% of the world's GDP would make it possible to distribute $1900/year ($5/day), which, though rather small for the inhabitants of rich countries, would be a considerable amount for those living in very poor countries, a group that represents almost half of the inhabitants of the Planet https://phys.org/news/2018-10-world-day-bank.html those that much more quickly and much more easily can be captivated to engage in terrorist actions (Schmidt & Jared Cohen dixit).