{"id":12464,"date":"2011-10-18T20:28:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T19:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=12464"},"modified":"2011-10-18T20:28:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T19:28:42","slug":"jeffrey-sachs-at-occupy-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/10\/18\/jeffrey-sachs-at-occupy-wall-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Sachs at Occupy Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Jeffrey Sachs, who spoke at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialtaskforce.org\/calendar\/conference2011\/\">2011 Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development\u00a0Conference <\/a>earlier this month, made an impassioned impromptu speech at Zuccoti Park.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mB_eoUqbKDw&amp;t=8m1s\" target=\"_blank\">The speech <\/a>covered a range of topics, but at 8:01, he addressed tax havens:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIts not because we think wealth is bad.<br \/>\nIts because we think you cheat.<br \/>\nIts because you don\u2019t follow the law.<br \/>\nIts because you don\u2019t pay your taxes.<br \/>\nAnd then you say we have no money in this country,<br \/>\nTo educate our children.<br \/>\nWe have the money.<br \/>\nIts your money in the Cayman Islands.<br \/>\nIts Your money in the Swiss bank accounts.<br \/>\nAnd if you don\u2019t bring it home,<br \/>\nWe\u2019re going to bring it home.<br \/>\nBecause this is a country of laws.<br \/>\nBecause this is a democracy.<br \/>\nAnd we are the 99%.<br \/>\nWe have the votes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"634\" height=\"430\"><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"634\" height=\"430\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mB_eoUqbKDw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" start=\"481\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Few have moved more than Sachs in realising his earlier errors on neoliberalism. In the face of the evidence he has changed his mind.\u00a0Others\u00a0need to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, Jeffrey Sachs, who spoke at the\u00a02011 Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development\u00a0Conference earlier this month, made an impassioned impromptu speech at<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/10\/18\/jeffrey-sachs-at-occupy-wall-street\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,129,32,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-task-force-on-financial-integrity-and-economic-developm","category-tax-havens","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}