I’m perfectly willing to give my opponents credit when they do something clever and/or effective.
I posted this video making fun of libertarians, for instance, because it is genuinely funny. People like me, I will confess, sometimes are so allergic to government that we do things that make us easy targets for satire.
Well, here’s a video parody of Mitt Romney and the Cayman Islands, obviously designed to resemble the Corona beer commercials. I’m not impressed.
My tepid reaction is not because I recently defended Romney’s use of Cayman-based investment vehicles.
Indeed, here’s an old video attacking tax havens, and I think it’s sufficiently amusing that I just uploaded it onto my Youtube channel because it’s worth sharing and I couldn’t find it online.
Both of these leftist videos make silly and inaccurate points, but the anti-Romney video is simplistic and the entire premise is false. He’s not hiding anything. Intelligent satire uses the truth as a starting point. This video doesn’t.
The anti-Cheney video, by contrast, has some big mistakes, but at least it is based on the accurate premise that companies legally try to reduce their taxes. Moreover, the Jimmy Buffett music is a nice touch.
Since I’ve share a couple of anti-tax haven videos, I feel compelled to post one of mine for some balance. And since I recently posted my video on the economic case for tax havens, here’s my video on the moral case for tax havens.
And if you want to really understand these issues, I humbly suggest you look at the paper I wrote for the UK-based Adam Smith Institute.
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One thing is that the leftists never seek to explain the cause of anything going wrong apart from automatically ascribing it to ill-will or greed of people.
For ex, if businesses hide their money in tax havens, they (leftists) attribute it to greed of businessmen (its like saying man fell off a building because of gravity, and not looking for the real reasons), and don’t look for probable policy causes like punitive tax system being a precursor for these actions. Not only do they not understand effect of policies on real-world outcomes, they cannot light a candle in their often confused minds to comprehend human nature.
You sir, have capture why I love the daily show and hate anything on MSNBC.