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"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon..."

Since the rich avoiding taxes isn't some new phenomenon, this is off-topic.

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> Since the rich avoiding taxes isn't some new phenomenon, this is off-topic.

The actual mechanics of how it is accomplished being published is a fairly new phenomenon, to my eyes. That makes it somewhat relevant.

That's kind of silly. Every single thing that happens in politics is "new" at one point, so therefore we should be able to post every new political thing?

That has little or no relation to what I said. The publishing of how something is done with specifics when that process was largely hidden previously makes this interesting.

Your inability to see it as anything but purely political is not an attribute we share.

What do you mean by "largely hidden"? Nothing in this blog post is hidden or secret.

My argument is that the process by which money is moved to these tax lenient locations and the companies that facilitate this and the options and services they offer has to this point been largely unknown to the average person, and is thus interesting to read about. Are you contending that all this was known, or that even if it was unknown it's uninteresting? Because otherwise I'm not sure what you're arguing.

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