Did you see what her lawyer said?
Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal team has hit back over her updated indictment, blasting it as “shocking, unfair, and an abuse of power” since it came too close to her trial scheduled for 12 July.
https://sputniknews.com/us/202104011082512766-ghislaine-maxwells-lawyer-rips-new-sex-trafficking-charges-as-shocking–abuse-of-power/
IMF Joins the Choir Singing the Holistic Praises of Higher Taxes
The IMF wants predistributive and redistributive policies. The center of the alleged holistic approach is of course higher taxes.
Giving Everyone a Fair Shot
The IMF wants to Give Everyone a Fair Shot.
The COVID-19 pandemic is intensifying the vicious circle of inequality. To break this pattern and give everyone a fair shot at prosperity, governments need to improve access to basic public services—such as health care (including vaccination) and education—and strengthen redistributive policies.
For most countries, this would require raising additional revenue and improving the efficiency of spending.
Holistic Approach
Enhancing access to basic public services will require additional resources, which can be mobilized, depending on country circumstances, by strengthening overall tax capacity. Many countries could rely more on property and inheritance taxes. Countries could also raise tax progressivity as some governments have room to increase top marginal personal income tax rates, whereas others could focus on eliminating loopholes in capital income taxation. Moreover, governments could consider levying temporary COVID-19 recovery contributions as supplements to personal income taxes for high-income households and modernizing corporate income taxation. In emerging market economies and low-income countries in particular, additional revenues could also be raised through consumption taxes to finance social spending. Further, low-income countries will need support from the international community to help with financing and implementing home-grown taxation and spending reforms.
In some countries, public support for better access to basic services, financed through higher taxes, has been strong and is likely increasing with the pandemic. A recent survey in the United States shows that those who had personally experienced the impact of COVID-19, either through illness or unemployment, have developed a stronger preference for more progressive taxation.
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/imf-joins-the-choir-singing-the-holistic-praises-of-higher-taxes