
John Christensen ■ Tax and the Death of Democracy – interview from The Renegade Economist

In this excerpt from an interview recorded in June 2015, Ross Ashcroft talks with film-maker Harold Crooks (The Corporation, Surviving Progress, The Price We Pay) and TJN’s director, John Christensen, about the threat posed by tax havens to parliamentary democracy.
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