Thread by @nickreeves9876

1/ Freeports are not Charter Cities, but even as they are they threaten to suck economic activity into areas with lower taxes and lighter regulation.

Freeports also facilitate crime, corruption, tax-dodging and money-laundering. So they are just what the Tories would like.

2/ But freeports can serve as a stepping stone to Charter Cities, which are basically privately controlled deregulated tax havens freed from democratic control. They're small versions of the kind of kleptocracy forecast by William Rees-Mogg in "The Sovereign Individual"

3/ Whether Freeports succeed or fail the Tory libertarians will use the outcome to argue that to make them more effective they should be augmented in ways that make them more like Charter Cities. That means making them more like deregulated tax havens.

4/ Tax havens are parasites. Their economic model can only work by sucking money out of normal economies. If the influx of tax-dodging money stopped tax havens would collapse.

5/ Tax havens facilitate crime, corruption, money-laundering and despotism on a global scale. By sucking money out of normal economies they force cuts in government services and increases in taxation, and by so doing they undermine democracy.

6/ Tax havens, whether in the form of nation states or Charter Cities are parasites that undermine democracy and drive the world towards the kleptocracy of William Rees-Mogg's "The Sovereign Individual".

7/ Tax havens and Charter Cities are weapons of mass destruction aimed at the annihilation of democracy. If we want democracy to survive we must wholly eradicate tax havens. That's why we need a global campaign –

#PATH People Against Tax Havens