You pay more taxes.
I pay more taxes.
We all pay more taxes.
Hey, it's Lucas Skrobot and you're listening to the Lucas
Skrobot show where we uncover purpose, pursue truth and own.
The future is episode 264, October 10th, 2021.
Welcome to the show coming to you from the heart of the middle
east today, we talk about.
Taxes global taxes that are going to affect everyone.
They say that this is only going to touch that.
You know, big, bad multinational corporations that are making more
than 750 million euros dollars a year, but who will end up footing this bill
who will end up suffering because of this new and imposed global tax?
Well, it's a 7 billion earthlings who are just oftentimes trying
to get by in life also on today's episode, stick around to the end,
especially if you're an avid listener.
Some announcements, uh, towards the end of this episode, in the Weaver
and loom segment that you for sure do not want to miss because it
pertains to the next number of weeks and months back to this global.
Thank you organization for economic cooperation and development, which
is comprised of 140 countries.
And so far 136 out of this hundred and 40 countries have agreed
to the global taxation scheme.
So that.
These big multinational corporations can't avoid taxes.
What would happen up to this point?
It's still to this point because this bill has not been passed.
There's four countries, including Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka that
have not yet joined the agreement, but it is likely that it's still going
to pass is 90% of the, the globe.
The global economy is behind this proposition, but what.
The way this applies is for these massive multinational corporations that
are doing over 868 million us dollars or 750 million euros in sales a year
will be subject to an additional.
15% tax, not an additional 15%, but a minimum 15% tax.
The way that that works is if you set up your company in India and
India levies a 10% tax on you, but you also have roots back in the UK.
Well, the UK is now able to impose the difference.
They are able, the UK can take the extra 5%.
India can take their temperature.
And no matter what if you're one of these massive corporations you're paying 15%
in the past, the way that these, these tax incentives have worked a great case
in point is a nation like the United Arab Emirates or Dubai, or even Saudi
Arabia, where they had zero tax for these multinational corporations, there's a tax
Haven or low tax for such a long time.
So it gave these companies.
Incentive to come and set up business in their country because they
would be able to have a lower tax burden to be able to do business.
And this would greatly help and built the economy of many
nations, including Ireland.
Ireland has been using this.
It's this scheme.
And I don't mean scheme in a negative way, but had been using this scheme for
a long time to be able to help build up their economy by giving tax breaks,
to, to organizations, to corporations so that they come and set up their
headquarters in Ireland, which then brings jobs, which brings white collar jobs.
Blue collar jobs helps the economy grow in those cities, in that nation.
But now.
The governments have banded together and they have essentially created
a fixed pricing schema, which.
A slew of corporations banded together and said, Hey, we're going to fix the
prices just so that everyone has to pay the same amount so that we can just ensure
that all of the customers it's, it's an equal competition, equal playing field.
That the powers that be are saying, well, no, this isn't really
a price fixing or tax fixing.
It's making sure that everyone actually has a level playing field.
It's the same difference.
The only difference is that somehow the global elected officials have
decided that this is a good idea, even though it is going to impact people
like you and me, and this is how it's going to impact people like you and me.
When these global corporations turn a profit, what happens with that money?
That money goes back into the country.
That money goes out to their investors or goes out to other people on their board
or employees and they get taxed there.
So people, the dollar is getting taxed one way or another, but what these big
corporations do, which is, has enabled us.
To talk right now, the fact that you're listening to this is evidence that
these evil, multinational corporations who are just out to destroy the world
have totally destroyed your life by the fact that you are listening to this
most likely on a handheld device that 20, 30 years ago would have called.
Millions and millions and millions of dollars, billions
and billions of billions to make.
We didn't even have the technology, but because of the ability for
corporations to reinvest profits into their companies, we have been
able to develop amazing technology that has improved all of our lives.
But when that those profits are not able to be reinvested into the.
And they're not making the profits that they need to stay alive, which right now,
in COVID times, we all know that countries are, are struggling to stay afloat.
Even here, here in the middle east, when VAT tax was initially introduced
just a number of years ago, the number of companies that shut down or left
citing that tax across the region.
Enormous shocking amounts of people left during that time, as things were
already slowing down pre COVID days, and now a new unions, more of ex-pats have
left these companies because there are these, these nations and have gone back
to their home countries because there's just not the business to be able to
keep these economies as they have been.
But now when these massive corporations are getting an additional tax where
they can't find these tax havens who is going to pay for it well, sooner or
later, it will cause prices to inflate.
We will end up playing, paying those prices.
It will cause everything in the world to inflate because no longer
can these corporations find a place where they have a attacks.
It actually kills competition.
It actually kills small nations abilities.
Do you have an advantage over big booming economies like the United States?
So this is, this is just a bad deal all around.
Of course, the, the, the globalists that be are loving, our loving.
Because it means that.
They are able to have one step closer to total global control.
Uh, president Joe Biden said, in regards to this, he made a
statement, a written statement.
He said, today's agreement shows how the American leadership and diplomacy
is advancing the economic interests.
America's working families for decades, American workers and taxpayers have
paid the price for tax systems that has rewarded multinational corporations
for shipping jobs and profits overseas.
This race to the bottom has it just harmed American workers,
but it puts many of our allies at competitive disadvantages as well.
In other words, we don't like the global competition.
So we are going to do away with the competition.
We are going to do a way with people having a competitive advantage because
we're going to make it illegal for them to have a competitive advantage.
Now we're going to say, Nope.
If you're going to take your business elsewhere, you still will owe us taxes.
The globe is truly becoming a borderless borderless.
Of course, this is great for the build back better agenda, which the whole
world is going to go through this global reset and build back better.
And we're going to make sure that everyone pays their fair share.
It's funny, we don't.
When we talk about paying their fair share, why don't we just establish a
flat income tax 10% or a flat sales tax, rather than having all of these systems
where the, the, the one 10th of 1%.
Who are building these corporations who are investing their resources
and taking risk are paying the majority of the taxes all ready?
Oh, this is, it's just insane.
At the end of the day, at the end of the day, it's you and.
Who will end up carrying these tax loads in these tax burdens?
Because once the money gets sucked into the governments, we, we all know how
most governments across the world are run very inefficiently because they're
not run from an entrepreneurial mindset.
There are some nations out there who do operate with a different
mindset of how can we, how can we run our, our government?
With more of an entrepreneurial spirit, but oftentimes the way that
a budget works within a government is if you spend all of your budget,
then you will get more budget.
But if you don't spend all of your budget, you will get less.
Whereas in a corporation, in a company it's quite the opposite.
If you can get the job done without spending all that money and you
can show a profit, we're going to reward you for your good stewardship.
Now I'm I don't think that tax should be totally outlawed taxes
are good when there's taxation with representation and you're, you're
paying for, for a unified government to help things in society, like build.
Like make sure that there's a legal system put in place, like building up
a military to defend your borders, to defend your land, to, to ensure that
there is a legal system so that when there is reason to go to court, you
know, that you have a justice system that you will be working in, operating in.
That's not corrupt where there's not grease money, that's going every, which.
There's good reason for taxes.
There is not, I don't have an argument to say there should be zero taxes.
There should be tax, but this, this will not, this will definitely
not have a positive effect.
On the lives that it's supposedly is designed to help make sense
in a post-truth society society, where we have exchanged truth for
lies and reasons for post reason, for post ponder and irrationality.
The absurd finally makes sense.
And w what is the greatest thing?
About living in a post-modern era post-modern world is that you can
change the definition of words to mean whatever you feel like it whenever you
feel like it, as long as it fits your political agenda, that is if you're the
one that's in charge of the dictionary.
Well, the Miriam Webster dictionary is in charge of the dictionary and they found.
Quite convenient to change the definition of what an anti-vaxxer
is previously an anti-vaxxer.
It was someone who was against all vaccines period.
Now I know a lot of people who sit in that anti-vaxxer camp
and I have spent a lot of time.
Debating and arguing, or mostly actually trying to avoid debates and arguments
around the, the anti-vax, uh, arguments because we've accentuate all of our kids.
They're vaccinated.
I love vaccinations.
They are awesome.
Awesome.
However, what I don't love mandatory vaccinations.
People being told that if.
Do not get a shot.
You are barred from society.
You are going to lose your job.
You're not able to work in the government United built to work in the military.
You're not able to enter a story.
You need to have your medical papers on you at all times in order to go anywhere.
This is the mandates that are happening.
And right now in society, ironically enough, most of the
voices that I have listened to.
R a against the mandating of vaccines.
They have been vaccinated.
Many people are listened to they've gotten the vaccine.
They said, yeah, I'm vaccinated.
I'm vaccinated too.
And then they go on to say how they are against mandates of vaccines, because it's
a complete overstep of personal freedoms.
And.
And government into the personal sphere and the medical sphere and the
whole thing has become politicized.
Well, now the dictionary of course, language has become politicized as well.
They've changed the official definition in the Miriam Webster dictionary to, to this.
It is now a person who opposes.
The use of vaccines or regulations mandating vaccinations.
So now if you oppose a mandate, regulating vaccinations, you're opposing a mandate.
You're not anti mandate.
Now you're anti VAX.
Well, one of the biggest, apparently anti-vax nations.
Now, I guess we have those.
If a nation is opposing.
This is what it means.
If a nation decides to oppose the regulation or mandates of a vaccine
like Croatia they're now anti-vax they're now anti-vax so Iceland
must also be anti-vax because they have suspended Medina vaccinations
for all age groups, all age groups.
They're saying we don't trust Madrona.
Does this mean that, oh my goodness.
Iceland.
Of all places they are being just horrible.
Anti-vaxxers is that no, because, because they look at data and they
said, Hmm, I don't think we trust this maternal vaccine right now.
We need to, we need to get a little bit more, some more answers
to figure out what's going on.
When, when AstraZeneca was paused across Europe, does that mean Europe?
Was it in that point of time?
Anti-vax because they didn't want to accept that particular vaccine.
Well, president.
President Joe Biden chimed in on this, uh, this last week, remarking on the
progress, the great progress that America has made when it comes to their
vaccinations and the things that he's doing, and the reasons why he is pushing
vaccine mandates mandates across the land of the free and the home of the
brave here is president Joe Biden.
I still had more than a quarter of the people in the United States were eligible
for vaccinations, but didn't get the shot.
And we know there is no other way to beat the pandemic than to get the
vast majority of Americans vaccinated.
It's as simple as that, no other.
He said there's no other way to beat the pandemic.
If you remember a few episodes ago, we played a clip from professor, sir.
Andrews polars.
Who's the director of the Oxford vaccination group.
Yeah.
Huxford AstraZeneca director.
Talk about being pro vaccination.
This is what he had to say a few episodes ago.
I think we are in a situation here with this current marriage.
At where herd immunity is not a possibility because it's still in
facts, uh, vaccinated individuals.
Um, and I suspect that, uh, the virus will throw out next is a, is a
veteran, which is perhaps even veteran transmitting in vaccinated populations.
This is, this is from someone who who's helping develop these
vaccines, but yet here is the, the president of the United States.
With fake news misinformation saying that, oh man, we know that the only way
that this will stop is if everyone gets vaccinated, even though the experts are
saying we are not going to reach herd immunity, period, it is, it's not going
to happen with this because it is like the flu in that, in that it is continuing.
Coming up with new and new strains and variants, just like a flu shot from
two years ago is not going to help you with beating the flu this year.
Well, president Joe Biden goes on.
We're making sure healthcare workers are vaccinated because if you seek
care at a healthcare facility, you should have a certainty that the people
providing that care are protected from COVID and cannot spread it to
you and can not spread it from you.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, this ladies and gentlemen is a direct
violation of YouTube policies.
Is it.
Again, we just read that a lot of the policies, the new YouTube misinformation
policies to do build a safer world for you w on from the, this is a quote from
the YouTube website on their policy that you cannot make any claims that
any medication or vaccination is a guaranteed prevention method for COVID-19.
So claims that any medication.
Or any vaccination is a guaranteed prevention method for COVID-19
is a violation of YouTube policy.
And yet again, here is Mr.
Presence.
We're making sure healthcare workers are vaccinated because if you seek
care at a healthcare facility, you should have a certainty that the people
providing that care are protected from COVID and cannot spread it to you.
We have a certainty that they're protected from COVID and can not spread it from you.
I mean, I guess we should just, we need to take out, take down the white house.
You know, flag their account and take it down because this
is clearly miss information.
Even the CDC, this is quote from the CDC website.
Quote, if you are fully vaccinated and become infected with the Delta variant
comma, you can spread the virus to others.
This is the CDC website.
In for mation ladies and gentlemen, the point, the point of all of this
is that these mandates, these mandates and this push to control everything in
the midst of a time where everything is out of control in the midst of the
time where economies are repressed.
We are where we're teetering between whether a global inflation,
which we are seeing currently, or will that turn as everything.
The house of cards collapses on itself into a global depression, which will
be very difficult to get out of.
And yet here are governments continuing to raise taxes and to push for a.
Further and further control over our every day lives.
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We'll be right back with our closing Weaver and Liam segments.
Welcome back to Weaver Numa, part of the show where we take ancient wisdom and
we weave it in with our every day lives.
I love the image of the Weaver and the loom it a carpet.
Is filled with many, many, many tiny knots, just like our lives are filled
with many tiny decisions and all of those decisions add up together, all
of those whose divine appointments, divine interventions of happening
to run into someone in the middle of a, a store and become friends with.
All of these things are just little knots in our life that build up to make
the tapestry or the carpet of our lives.
And then our lives are just one little pixel in the history of mankind
and we're all being woven together.
My destiny is locked up in your destiny and your destiny is
truly locked up in my destiny.
And that's why we need one another.
We need a community to run with and we need wisdom to be able to discern how
to best live our lives, how to best navigate the snares and the traps.
And that is eight, the framework of a loom to have a strict.
And solid loom is straight and solid framework by which we can
see the world so that we can make the decisions in our life brightly.
Well, today's quote comes from Plato from Plato's Republic, and it's
actually the first three words of Plato's Republic, which is this.
I went down now.
There's a story behind.
When I was in university, I took a, a philosophy course
and my philosophy teacher.
He was a, he was a true, it really true philosopher.
He would, he would come to class every day wearing the same black sweatshirt and
same black sweat pants and white sneakers.
Now it wasn't, you know, he probably had seven to the same sweatshirt and sweats.
So that everyday he would just wake up and put on the same outfit.
So he didn't have to make those decisions.
He was thrill.
When you think of a philosophy professor, he was the, the image
that you probably see in your head.
That's beat.
It's been depicted in all the movies.
Well, in our class, we read Plato's Republic and Plato's Republic is a.
A story of Play-Doh writing about justice and mercy, how societies are to
fit together, how do, how do republics function and, and roll out justice
and rollout, just systems of living.
And it all starts with the, the hero going down to see.
And I remember the professor asking, how can we, from the first sentence of
Plato's Republic, understand with the entire book is about, I was stumped.
I couldn't figure it out.
And he said, it's the first three words I went down.
Um, us going down out of our ivory towers, it's us going down into the
cave, into the cave of ourselves, into the cave of, of our past, into solitude,
into engaging with people around us, everyday people that we may be.
We don't often engage with to be able to see the world from a different viewpoint.
It's these things that enables us to see the world differently and to
understand, listen, to measure how we ought to live and that's to live and
to walk in humility, to live and to walk in self-awareness by coming down
from those normal activities to, to a moment of silence and rest so that we
can begin to see the world around us.
Brightly.
And so that second.
That segues into something I've been recently thinking about and wrestling
through probably for the last month I've been doing this show now every week
without, without fail, I guess I've failed twice, twice in the middle of moving.
I missed a a week show, but every week for the last three years,
sometimes twice, most, most of this year it's been twice a week.
Um, at one point it was.
Five times a week doing this show.
And over the last month, uh, hit some bumps in life.
Some, uh, some moments of sorrow and grief, and it has caused me to reflect
and to say, I need a moment to go down.
I need a moment.
To go into the cave as there's there's things that I've been
wanting to develop for the show.
There's things that I've been wanting to develop in my, in my personal
life, that I need to take a moment to retreat back from the show so that
I can come and take a step forward, because oftentimes if we want to take
steps forward in life, we need to take a step back to do put some things in.
So that we can come out with a fresh view, fresh ideas, fresh articulation.
So in the last, my goodness in the last six or seven months, I have just
loved how this show has developed.
I have.
Some of the new things that we have come out with, uh, especially the, uh,
the, yeah, that makes sense segment.
And some of the more structures that have been coming into the show,
I've just been loving the show.
When I sit down here to talk with you twice a week, it is, it
is really the place that I just feel such a wind in my heart.
And I, I just love this so much, so I'm not going away, but I am scaling.
Uh, for the next month to possibly to the end of the year, I'm
leaving a little open-ended.
I know.
And I personally hate that it, in, in my decision-making process, I talk to a lot
of different close confidant, mentors and friends to come to this decision.
And I could S I could feel in myself a greater fear.
Pausing for a moment, letting go, taking a break to give myself to reading that
have been needing, to do, wanting to do, to writing that have been wanting
to do, to developing some, some ideas further that I haven't had time to.
Um, as most of my creative bandwidth is eaten up with these shows twice a week.
And so pulling back from that will give me more creative bandwidth
to plug into some of these areas.
That we'll be able to bring out.
So, uh, the twice a week model right now that we've been running off of
since the beginning of this year will be paused for a number of weeks.
Uh, I'm not saying a won't do an episode at all.
If I'm struck with, with a great story and something just needs to be said,
um, I'm going to pop back on and share that with you, but in the meantime,
between now and whenever the, the next, the next schedule is set into place and.
Keep on rolling with that with like clockwork, just as we've been doing
the twice a week shows so far this year, think we've clocked around.
Oh, I think over 70 episodes, uh, this year, I think 76 episodes,
maybe we've done so far this year, so we'll continue with regular
programming of course, but between now and then I would love to hear from.
If you, if you find yourself at this episode and you're
like, where's the next show?
What's that me a plus 1, 2 0 2 9 2 2 0 2 2 0.
I would love to hear from you.
I'd love to hear some of the things that you have been loving from the
show hating from the show wishing you had more of from the show.
More importantly, things that are happening in your own life, things that
are happening in your own community, things that you're seeing, taking
place that is causing you, either concern or great joy, things that
are taking place in your life, that's causing you to find greater senses
of purpose or feel like hindrances to finding your purpose or finding.
Your way in life of how, how that you can own your future, how you can see the
world more clearly and more brightly.
Finally, the way that we all can grow more as individuals
is by giving away what we have.
So even on this short hiatus, it's not really a hiatus.
It's not really a stepping back.
It is a going down.
Into the cave to develop things that I've been needing to develop.
I can bring it back out so that we can all progress further.
But in this hiatus, please share these ideas.
You don't even need to share the actual link to the episode, but share these
ideas with your community around you, because that will cause you to grow
because as you give things away, You gain more knowledge and more understanding
and more articulation, and it begins to build a community around you.
It begins to strengthen those walls of those communities.
And that is the one thing.
Maybe it's not the one thing that we can control, but when we look across
society, when we look at these global taxes in these governments and the
dictionary changing the definition of words, we, unless you're in those
high places of power, have very little control over that, but we.
Strike a rhythm and a cadence of the community around us.
We can create a culture, a cultural norm within the community around us.
And then if we're living in that micro ecosystem, then we can be isolated
from many of these toxic, uh, pathogens that are, are sweeping through the.
And it's truly sweeping through the globe due to the connectivity that
we all have to the internet and to these smart devices that make us dumb.
They make us dumb.
One of the things that I am committing to over this next season.
Breaking up with the 24 hour news cycle a little bit more and spending more
time reading, more time writing and having those blocks of time to, to block
out deep work, deep thinking, which I've been so blessed to be able to do
through the show as it takes hours to produce each one of these episodes.
Uh, deep work and deep thinking and reading, but oftentimes it's reading
pointless things like global taxes.
It's just like, ah, Come on man, but, um, I'm looking forward to, to
getting into some more meaty literature and books over this next season,
and I encourage you to do the same.
That is all for this episode.
I look forward to seeing you soon.
I look forward to seeing your name come up in my.
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