I've been thinking a lot, recently, about the state of the country and how we got here, how it's affecting us now, and how it'll destroy us in the near future if we don't do something now!
How we got here looks surprisingly simple: Bad banking practice, greed and no regulation or accountability in the financial sector. How long did it take? Around a hundred and fifty years!! It was obviously accelerated during Thatcher's years, but nonetheless, this has been a catastrophe brewing since industrialisation and globalisation. In the words of the (very) old song:-
"Its the rich what gets the pleasure, its the poor what gets the blame.
Its the same the whole world over, ain't it all a bloomin' shame!"
Taxes are for poor people! If you have a good accountant, you can be sure that no matter what the tax rate is in your country - you'll never pay it! Whether you've built your business up from scratch, (an extremely rare event!), or you've become a famous sports-person in a high-paying, commercial field, or entertainer whose manager has managed to secure high prices for tickets to your wonderful events, or you've inherited the family fortune, (a far more common phenomenon!), you don't have to pay taxes anywhere in the world! And you can get helpful advice on how to invest your money, get the best returns and take all the profits "off-shore" paying little, or nothing, in revenue on those returns! Only the working plebs and peasants pay for national security, the NHS, education and the country's infrastructure. We pay and you stay for free! Great deal, yes?
So now you have to figure; what about these people in work you read about who are struggling to make ends meet and having to rely on government handouts and food banks for survival? They're taking up some of that valuable tax revenue that keeps this country safe for us to live in (for free) and must be forced to do more!! Those feckless types who live on those "sink-estates". (I've heard about them. They'll rob you blind, given half a chance!) How can we be sure to make them pay their way? Let's stop their benefits - I mean, tax credits, child benefit, 'top-up' benefits, social security benefits, housing benefits, disability living allowances, carers allowances and JSA, all of which only encourages them to stay 'lazy', don't they? Would you work if you were getting your rent paid and your food subsidised? No way! And they've all got plasma screens, iPhones, holidays in Benidorm and fancy cars, haven't they? I've read that in the Daily Mail - so it must be true. The Daily Mail is the 'voice of the people', isn't it? Or there's that Philpott bloke - didn't he screw the system by having a hundred kids to a harem of feckless women? They must all be doing that! Young women getting pregnant just to get child benefits. Its so obvious! Screwing the system is what they're all doing. Taking away our "hard-earned" cash! Bleeding honest tax payers. (Oh! Wait a minute - I'm not paying any!) Anyway, they have to be encouraged to go to work - or the value of my shares shrink! That could harm the economy - not me, just the economy! I mean, who would invest in a country's output if there weren't any profits to be made? My money's on Bangladesh! Workers there are happy to get something in their wage-packets, and they don't seem to complain as much as these whining "lefties" in this country! They don't know how lucky they are to be living in one of the richest country's in the world! Poverty - they don't know the meaning of the word! I'll bet they'd be more encouraged if we told them that the country's half-full of foreigners! And most of them are terrorists! Hmmm....!
Perhaps we could fudge the figures to make it look like this country's over-populated by immigrants! If we did that then they wouldn't be so concerned about the tax losses from my overseas accounts and investments, would they? That would encourage the ultra-right to shout their mouths off and cause enough of a stink for those feckless, uneducated slum-dwellers to focus on beating the crap out of foreigners! What a brilliant idea! Or better still - whilst we hide away somewhere safe and neutral, we could start a war! Just think of the investment opportunities then! No, maybe that's going a bit too far.......
(Incidentally, The Professor to whom I've "repected" is Prof. Richard Wolff - look him up!)
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