I'm just highlighting an issue that many voters and workers will find dispiriting. Which is why many are affronted by instances like this. It's abundantly clear that corporations and rich individuals have carved out ways to hide their wealth and pay much lower taxes than the average person, and that this is often achieved through influencing government policy. They hold significant influence that has very little to do with a vote and often even who is voted in (it's not particularly hard to influence two parties... happens in the US especially all of the time). Anyway, it's just a view shared. Will wind down my thoughts on this. Have fun!

It’s becoming more and more blatant and more and more acceptable. Strange. We soon could be in 19th century territory with very little comforts for the masses while the few have it all. Literally all of it.

COYP

I agree that it was a very difficult time where quick decisions had to be made. It's just it seems many took advantage of that, that there's a culture of that rather than it being a one off, and it's something that's hard, yet important to minimise in the system where possible. They are often blatant about it and that can wear on people, and they are supposed to represent our interests, not their own.

Your other point I agree with, that no matter what the societal bigger picture is, or what policies are in place, ultimately we all have to make the best of life and the opportunities it presents rather than be overly be woe is me or have a blinkered and entitled 'hand out' mindset. It certainly sounds like you've weathered some financial storms, and are family focused (the health issues you've mentioned etc), so credit to you. I've had failed and successful business ventures, but if I'd given up when times were tough I'd have been in a much worse position than I am!

If we do our bit though, so should government. They're more akin to pigs in the trough at times in my view.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I appreciate that people can have different takes on these matters.

Edited by BlueJay (11 Apr 2022 10.12pm)

It's actually people like this who make my piss boil, that & woke corporations like Starbucks, Microsoft, Amazon et al who are all for union membership until erm? someone wants to start a union at one of their places then they start squirming & wriggling, the exact same thing with taxes.
I don't give a f*** if it's legal or not it's the sheer hypocrisy of it all.
Most people earning legally or Illegally say 75K a year shouldn't pay income tax anyway, stick a penny on VAT that way everyone pays

Pro USA & Israel

You clearly don't expect anything you post to be considered when you post absolute racist garbage like this.

Do you think it's funny or clever?

Edited by HKOwen (12 Apr 2022 12.10am)

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Well, if anyone is outraged by this, they obviously have no idea of our tax system. Non domicile has existed for longer than anyone alive. No laws were broken by Akshata Murt(h)y. If people want to get indignant about it, they should take it up with Parliament as I stated. Not an individual, which is what idiots do. Ethics don't come into it. Law is law, and not bound by emotion.

The issue of furlough is 'whataboutery'.

Incidentally, the 'non dom' law was introduced for the appeasement of colonnial businessmen back in the days of the Empire. People might be pleased to see our repatriated subjects taking full advantage of a system that disadvantaged them in former times. No?

Well, I suppose they might have, but these are rich Tory cunce, so hang the phukkas!

edit: reading through these posts, I see that others are not so outraged. Also, anyone who offers to pay more than they need to into the government coffers is either getting some kind of personal return, a raving lunatic, or a liar.

Edited by Tim Gypsy Hill '64 (12 Apr 2022 2.00am)

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers