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It's only been like that since accountants took over the asylum. As for thinking it doesn't affect me, I am well aware of the effects of the numerous taxes which they burden us with.
As for Politics being the real world, I am afraid to say you are quite correct. If we want to raise more money, we have to come up with a plan to increase profit. If politicians want to raise money, they can just invent a new tax.
As we have seen from the way banks and financial institutions have been run over the past decade or so, it seems that the same mentality of council finance has been adopted by the banks, with disasterous results. The number of other businesses failing at the moment suggests that they too have been living on borrowed time for far too long and this whole mess was bound to happen sooner or later.