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“Like slavery”: Rehab patients forced into unpaid labor to cover “treatment”

Peabody Awards: Issa Rae, John Oliver, Carol Burnett, Hasan Minhaj Celebrate the Power of Television

Colombia rejects John Oliver corruption joke

Comedian John Oliver is making waves in the USA

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Enthusiastic Gardening Expert Returns to Home and Garden Show

Robert De Niro, worried about Trump, is making his festival the most activist yet

Russell Crowe to Donate John Oliver's Auction Proceeds Alaska Blockbuster Store Manager on John Oliver's Stunt: "It Could Be Very Big for Business" Anchorage’s Last Remaining Blockbuster Gets Some Unexpected Attention ETA: Fun with Google Translate He was "pleasantly surprised" by the great interest in the tax issue, writes Thierry Boitelle, when I ask him by e-mail for an interview: "A few years ago that would have been just a discussion among tax geeks like me". Mr. Boitelle, how do you find John Oliver's contribution? Thierry Boitelle: I think he is sometimes hilarious and politically incorrect, but in a nutshell. I am impressed how he deals with many complicated international tax issues in such a short time! You are portrayed as a Swiss lawyer in the show, but are Dutch, right? I was born and raised in the Netherlands, but I am a Swiss citizen and have been practicing Swiss tax law since April 1999. What would be a fairer tax system? If we returned to a system of withholding tax - historically a world standard - the rich would still pay taxes where they earn their money, regardless of their place of residence. The same applies to companies. So a rich person can live in the Bahamas, or Apple can shift assets and functions to offshore islands, but both are still investing and still earning money in highly developed countries with relatively high taxes. By taxing them at the source, the whole system becomes much fairer! Incidentally, VAT is also a nice form of withholding tax and excise duty, but essentially applies only to individual end users and not to companies. In many industrialized countries, VAT and other indirect taxes already account for more than 50 percent of government income. Income tax and wealth tax are only small sources of revenue for governments, we must not forget that. John Oliver attackiert die Schweiz – das sagt der Steuerexperte dazu (John Oliver attacks Switzerland - that's what the tax expert says)

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Justice Department imposes quotas on immigration judges, provoking independence concerns Sinclair Chairman Claims Entire Print Media Has ‘No Credibility’

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This Marlon Bundy finds Grampa extremely impressive. He notices that people are frequently “lining the streets” and “waving their flags” at Grampa’s motorcade, and Grampa “always gives them a thumbs-up.” The Vice-President works hard presiding over the Senate, advising the President, and talking to “people from across America” who “come to share stories and questions and problems.” (Grampa “helps answer each one,” Marlon Bundo marvels.) The word “important” appears three times in four pages. As night falls, Grampa and Marlon pray together, and the bunny thinks over the events of the day: “I remember how blessed I am / To call this great nation my home.” I feel sheepish knocking a kids’ story about the least complicit member of the Second Family, but the self-satisfaction and mediocrity on display here are galling. Meanwhile, the Oliver parody is sincerely delightful—full of the attentive details and poetic grace notes that distinguish good children’s books. (The Vice-Presidential residence is an “old, stuffy house”; two insect friends bend over a miniature checkerboard; the stinkbug’s podium is emblazoned, wonderfully, with a stinkbug logo.) That the joke version of the product feels realer and truer than the product itself somehow suits our post-fact world, salted with “fake news” and cable-news chyrons that prove stranger than fiction. “Marlon Bundo” pays homage to classic children’s titles (a spray of purple lupines across the cover conjures “Miss Rumphius”) and replaces Pence’s stilted rhymes with a freer set of rhythms and repetitions—some of which also gesture poignantly at our leading man’s pre-Wesley sadness. “I woke up all alone. Then I ate a fine bunny breakfast all alone, while I watched the news . . . all alone,” Bundo says. John Oliver’s Parody of Mike Pence’s Bunny Book Happens to Be a Delightful Work of Children’s Lit HBO’s John Oliver Attacks Focus on the Family

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John Oliver’s mentor recalls the comedian’s origins

Votta: After the Italian elections, nothing changes whatsoever

John Oliver Finds Humor In The News No One Wants To Hear About

TV Stations Follow John Oliver’s Lead in the Movement to Forgive Medical Debt

John Oliver says he was highly uncomfortable grilling Dustin Hoffman and thought most of the audience was against him Piers Morgan rips 'shameless fraud' John Oliver and tells Modern Family producer his show 'sucks' in ongoing Twitter debate over US citizenship

Piers Morgan Rips ‘Shameless Old Fraud’ John Oliver

How Jimmy Kimmel inspired John Oliver to share his own son's health scare While ‘Last Week Tonight’ Was Away, John Oliver Was Busy And Now This: John Oliver Just Might Be a Journalist

John Oliver returns to 'Last Week Tonight,' talks Trump, Alec Baldwin and why he's in awe of Jimmy Kimmel

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