{"id":22845,"date":"2026-08-10T16:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22845"},"modified":"2026-08-10T16:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:20:21","slug":"what-malta-tells-us-about-oligarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22845","title":{"rendered":"What Malta Tells Us About Oligarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US loses 100 billion dollars a year due to corporate tax avoidance where corporations pretend like their profits came from low tax areas like the small island country of Malta. This is about equal to the budget of the food stamps program. It&#8217;s about equal to how much Medicaid spends on children&#8217;s healthcare. The Biden administration&nbsp;was trying to alleviate this, but Trump ended attempts to do so.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Malta Tells Us About Oligarchy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y9vcKFX2V2I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US loses 100 billion dollars a year due to corporate tax avoidance where corporations pretend like their profits came from low tax areas like the small island country of Malta. This is about equal to the budget of the food stamps program. It&#8217;s about equal to how much Medicaid spends on children&#8217;s healthcare. The Biden administration was trying to alleviate this, but Trump ended attempts to do so. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y9vcKFX2V2I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[375,993,221,780,2150,140,1639,2284,1025,143,141,170],"class_list":["post-22845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-biden","tag-corporations","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden","tag-oligarchy","tag-tax","tag-tax-avoidance","tag-tax-cheat","tag-tax-code","tag-tax-law","tag-taxes","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22846,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22845\/revisions\/22846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}