Dr. Dolescum

[¡Punk!]

You know, as I write this, I am kinda on benefits in two different countries and have also dodged tax in two different countries in the last few weeks. There are no things to be proud of nor are they anything to be ashamed of. The money that "scum" like me costs the government is the equivalent to having a pish in Loch Lomond. In fact it's worse than that because I go swimming in Loch Lomond sometimes and, deep down, I'm a very selfish man and don't want to swim in your pish.

So while we spend £1billion a year on the illegal war in Iraq, the "energy industry" goes out of it's way to take turns raising prices while you lot fork out for their over priced black oil AND the war which was started so we can get more of it. We have billionaires, millionaires and "British" companies that have so many offshore accounts and accountants scouring the world for loopholes in tax law so that even someone who's spent most their adult life watching...

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[corky]

Originally Posted by endless psych

It seems prudent to mention the only thing that appears to actually be illegal in the entire article is avoiding paying council tax.

Oh and housing benefit.

the sub-letting of the flat might be illeagal.

[endless psych]

That would be why I mentioned the housing benefit fraud.

If the flat isn't being sub-let it isn't housing benefit fraud is it?

[Pier Angeli]

Originally Posted by endless psych

That would be why I mentioned the housing benefit fraud.

If the flat isn't being sub-let it isn't housing benefit fraud is it?

Subletting the flat may be against the lease agreement though.

[corky]

Originally Posted by endless psych

That would be why I mentioned the housing benefit fraud.

If the flat isn't being sub-let it isn't housing benefit fraud is it?

oh yeah, but the sub-letting would possibly be illeagal even if there were no bennefits involved, not sure if they would count as seperate crimes or not though.

[The_Beer_Baron]

Originally Posted by ¡Punk!

Did no-one read the end of the article?

I believe I did.

Originally Posted by ¡Punk!

The one thing that never got to me, that never will, was people calling me lazy or workshy.

Upon reading the article I was genuinly shocked and dumbfounded by the behaviour which I can only assume you're not writing about for a joke, and as such am calling you both lazy and workshy because . . . well, basically that's how I see it . . . and am calling it as such.
I could care less if you see it as an attempt to "get at you".
Personally you seem to pig-ignorant at this point to care.

Originally Posted by ¡Punk!

As they trudged off into the rain to sit at a desk talking to idiots I got used to drinking cider and playing guitar.

I love how you automatically make the assumption that everyone who engages in the world of work is instantly the jammed-in-a-cubicle rat-race type who is unable to have a social or personal life because they attempt to earn a wage in the correct fashion.

[¡Punk!]

[corky]

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I love how you automatically make the assumption that everyone who engages in the world of work is instantly the jammed-in-a-cubicle rat-race type who is unable to have a social or personal life because they attempt to earn a wage in the correct fashion.[/QUOTE]

He's correct about the cubicles. I saw it on Dilbert.

[endless psych]

Originally Posted by Pier Angeli

Subletting the flat may be against the lease agreement though.

Yes as well as being the source of the housing benefit fraud...

[The_Beer_Baron]

lol wut

[Potatojunkie]

Originally Posted by Jushin Liger

Get a job.

Originally Posted by Old Man

What Lovey said.
Omm

Originally Posted by Largest of Als

+1

Originally Posted by mischief

And again.

Originally Posted by The_Beer_Baron

Get a job.

Originally Posted by the article you have ostensibly just read

It's not for me anymore …

…Any jobs goin' back home?

Did IQs drop sharply while I was away?

[The_Beer_Baron]

I say we take off, nuke the lazy from orbit.

Its the only way to be sure.

[LesMTS]

We're talking about a crime on a similar scale to illegally downloading movies and music, or selling counterfeit goods at the Barras. It's insignificant and the disproportionate righteous indignation from intelligent people here is confusing.
The severity of a crime isn't proportional to the number of TV ads or Daily Mail articles tackling it.

That said, corporate tax dodging isn't really a good comparison. It works in a completely different context. For a start, they're generating money. But that's a whole other milk churn of beetles.
MPs expenses and haemorrhaging cash into stupid wars are bigger issues for me. I can see the logic in turning a blind eye to corporate tax fiddling if it means they won't relocate to Atlantis, taking ten thousand jobs with them.

[Semprini]

Originally Posted by LesMTS

relocate to Atlantis

The levees survived this time, it's still called New Orleans.

[MarkMono]

Refer to my comments in the other threads about this article.

[endless psych]

Originally Posted by LesMTS

That said, corporate tax dodging isn't really a good comparison. It works in a completely different context. For a start, they're generating money.

How do they generate their money though? By providing services/goods to the public/other organisations. Generating money is an odd way of putting it, they don't really "generate" money they gather it together from disparate sources if horde wasn't such an emotive word it would be closer to the truth...

Also given what happened in the Thatcher years to the miners, steel workers and such the keeping big business happy because it safeguards jobs argument doesn't hold a lot of water. Keeping big business happy for their tax revenue probably does though.