11-03-2014, 11:51 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Why don't they go get Vodafone and other TNCs to cough up some taxes? I'd love to see the cost benefit analysis for this programme to the amount of fraud discovered.
I really doubt ANY fraud was discovered. For that to happen, a judge would have to be convinced that the VRA was valid. It isn't. It was all about giving private companies an impetus to take on council jobs --- the old political pocket-filling dogma that private is good, public is wasteful bollocks.
Even now the UK government will not take legal steps to insist multinationals pay their fair share of tax. The fear is that the big company's will pull out of the UK -- as if we can't do without Starbucks, Amazon or Pizzahut.
Anyway, the opposite is true, I believe. Blighty Plc really is "Treasure Island" for the obsessively greedy buggers. They flock here in droves to make fortunes, pay the most meagre wages possible, on the most favourable terms, plus bear an almost zero tax burden. It's akin to husking out UK society - a case of the old Quack "bleeding" a sick patient.
Grrrr. :
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The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14