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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Cashy....many of the tax avoidance schemes are legal.......and though I do not agree with it, you cannot blame firms who rely on these schemes to boost their profits.
After all businesses are in the game to make money. So the answer is simple...close the schemes down, close the loopholes that allow these companies to use them.
It is the tax system(I know Eric won't like me using that term) that is at fault for allowing the loopholes to remain.
Likewise, the benefits system allows people to get away with cheating....so tackle the problem and make those who are claiming benefits, to which they are not entitled, pay every penny back.
If this was done then there would be more in the pot for those who need the support of benefits.
It isn't rocket science....is it?
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Hon, you go ahead and use any term you want. I could never get annoyed at you for that, as you are one of the sanest and most sensible people on here.
I know that tax loopholes are legal ... but so was war profiteering in WWl ... but they are wrong, immoral, and they damn welll stink. One thing that I treasure about my Lancashire heritage is that I come from a place and a time (I know, I'm an old fart
) where folks knew right from wrong, whatever the legal niceities. And what the tories are doing is wrong ... it sucks major league.