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Originally Posted by Irene Pearson
When we are taxed quite literally from the cradle to the grave it is natural to be a little tetchy about people who choose not to contribute , just take instead! That includes wealthy tax evaders who legitimately do the same.
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Tax is something everyone pays, in order to contribute towards society. How many articles do you see written about non-famous tax evaders, stealing millions of pounds from us, as opposed to articles you see written in the right wing rags that impersonate journalists on a daily basis?
How many two thousand pounds do you want to take from people in order to pay for Lord Fauntelroys swiss bank account?
It's easy to demonise the poor, their friends aren't Lords, and newspaper editors. You can measure society by how well we care for those that have least amongst us. The wealth disparity between rich and poor continues to grow, yet we want to make that wider by taking more from the bottom?
It's a ****ing insane world. I'm not saying there aren't errors, but countries do better, when the gap between bottom and top is narrower.