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Thomas: The Pandora papers

Photo by Matt Dunham of The Associated Press / An exterior view of 30 Harcourt Street in the Marylebone district of London on Oct. 4, 2021. The property is featured in the 'Pandora Papers' is a new report that sheds light on how world leaders, powerful politicians, billionaires and others have used offshore accounts to shield assets collectively worth trillions of dollars over the past quarter-century. Tony Blair, U.K. prime minister from 1997 to 2007, became the owner of this $8.8 million Victorian building in 2017 by buying a British Virgin Islands company that held the property, and the building now hosts the law firm of his wife, Cherie Blair, according to the the investigation.
Photo by Matt Dunham of The Associated Press / An exterior view of 30 Harcourt Street in the Marylebone district of London on Oct. 4, 2021. The property is featured in the 'Pandora Papers' is a new report that sheds light on how world leaders, powerful politicians, billionaires and others have used offshore accounts to shield assets collectively worth trillions of dollars over the past quarter-century. Tony Blair, U.K. prime minister from 1997 to 2007, became the owner of this $8.8 million Victorian building in 2017 by buying a British Virgin Islands company that held the property, and the building now hosts the law firm of his wife, Cherie Blair, according to the the investigation. Photo by Matt Dunham of The Associated Press / An exterior view of 30 Harcourt Street in the Marylebone district of London on Oct. 4, 2021. The property is featured in the 'Pandora Papers' is a new report that sheds light on how world leaders, powerful politicians, billionaires and others have used offshore accounts to shield assets collectively worth trillions of dollars over the past quarter-century. Tony Blair, U.K. prime minister from 1997 to 2007, became the owner of this $8.8 million Victorian building in 2017 by buying a British Virgin Islands company that held the property, and the building now hosts the law firm of his wife, Cherie Blair, according to the the investigation.

By Cal Thomas 4 min read

“The rich put cream on their berries; the rich drive shiny black cars.”

– from the Broadway musical “Carnival!”

The Pandora Papers, “an expose of the financial secrets and offshore dealings of dozens of heads of state, public officials and politicians,” writes CNN, could not have come at a better time for congressional “progressives” who are seeking to win over enough Democrats to pass the massive Biden-Pelosi $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill, which is loaded with enough pork to infect the nation with financial trichinosis.

The Pandora Papers, released by The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on Sunday, is not equivalent to the Pentagon Papers, which revealed how the U.S. government lied to the public about the Vietnam War, but it might serve the political ends of the left.

The papers reveal – wait for it – that rich people have managed to avoid paying taxes by hiding their wealth in foreign countries, such as the Cayman Islands. Who knew?