“Our world is in big trouble.”
When United Nations Secretary General António Guterres opens a speech with that line and goes on to implicate tax policy, one takes notice. His words shouldn’t be read without at least an examination. So what problems is he pointing to, and what are his solutions?
You can probably guess one of the problems—it’s climate change. The other is rising food and energy costs. The “solutions” are little more than wrist slaps for the world’s most prolific polluters but which otherwise allow business as usual.
The Problems
As stated, broadly, there are two: the climate ...
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