{"id":15412,"date":"2016-04-09T17:35:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T00:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15412"},"modified":"2016-04-09T17:35:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T00:35:25","slug":"back-to-the-squarish-of-square-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/04\/09\/back-to-the-squarish-of-square-states\/","title":{"rendered":"back to the squarish of square states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wait.\u00c2\u00a0 What are the political repercussions of this?\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, this brought down Iceland&#8217;s Government, and is making Great Britain&#8217;s sweat, and <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/putin-panama-papers-part-us-plot-weaken-russia-38223810\">Russia proclaim an American plot<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 (Interesting, in that the haven-chill tossles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2016\/04\/06\/david-cameron-edward-snowden-panama-papers\/82705208\/\">Edward Snowden<\/a> back to a &#8220;Man Without a Country&#8221; status.)<\/p>\n<p>But.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/04\/08\/473477551\/why-wyomings-laws-make-it-an-easy-tax-haven\">What of Wyoming<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 Surely&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/trib.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/govt-and-politics\/wyoming-s-panama-papers-connection-prompts-few-calls-for-reform\/article_7af5953e-edb9-5ed8-9678-73e79447335c.html\">hm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p><em>Since it has been <a title=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article70008302.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article70008302.html\" target=\"_blank\">tied to the Panama Papers<\/a>, AAA Corporate Services has done nothing to downplay state laws that allow a high level of anonymity to business owners. The papers are millions of <a title=\"http:\/\/trib.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/new-investigation-shows-wyoming-an-off-shore-tax-haven\/article_4225a0c1-5490-5b98-a462-2fe4fb717e74.html\" href=\"http:\/\/trib.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/new-investigation-shows-wyoming-an-off-shore-tax-haven\/article_4225a0c1-5490-5b98-a462-2fe4fb717e74.html\" target=\"_blank\">leaked documents<\/a> from a Central American law firm that allege attorneys helped some of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wealthiest people dodge paying taxes. AAA Corporate Services is a registered agent of the firm.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p><em>As journalists around the world began reporting about the Panama Papers, Wyoming Secretary of State Ed Murray said in a <a title=\"http:\/\/trib.com\/business\/murray-confirms-wyoming-ties-to-panama-papers\/article_14c6ac1c-5d68-59fb-b671-6fee0d513d25.html\" href=\"http:\/\/trib.com\/business\/murray-confirms-wyoming-ties-to-panama-papers\/article_14c6ac1c-5d68-59fb-b671-6fee0d513d25.html\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> he opposes new federal regulation on the entities and supports the anonymity provided in Wyoming\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s laws. Two lawmakers who head a committee that reviews Murray\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office also said they are reticent to major changes to state law. A Democrat on the committee, however, believes there are problems that could be fixed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I suppose it feeds into the big victory of Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"215\" data-total-count=\"215\"><em>Continuing a string of victories across the West, Senator Bernie Sanders won the Wyoming Democratic caucuses Saturday, chipping away at Hillary Clinton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s delegate lead before a major primary in New York next week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"121\" data-total-count=\"336\"><em>With 96 percent of precincts reporting, The Associated Press declared Mr. Sanders the winner with 56 percent of the vote.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"121\" data-total-count=\"336\">I believe the total was 28 votes to 22.\u00c2\u00a0 Would&#8217;ve been even-stevens, at 25-25, The Panama Papers scandal influenced 3 voting caucus-goers to think of going Democratic Socialist for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"121\" data-total-count=\"336\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wait.\u00c2\u00a0 What are the political repercussions of this?\u00c2\u00a0 I mean, this brought down Iceland&#8217;s Government, and is making Great Britain&#8217;s sweat, and Russia proclaim an American plot.\u00c2\u00a0 (Interesting, in that the haven-chill tossles Edward Snowden back to a &#8220;Man Without a Country&#8221; status.) But.\u00c2\u00a0 What of Wyoming?\u00c2\u00a0 Surely&#8230; hm. Since it has been tied to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15414,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15412\/revisions\/15414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}