Occupy for the Alternative

A demonstration against tax dodging companies and greedy banks organised by UK Uncut on 26th March 2011.

£95 billion of tax is dodged each year by the rich. £1 trillion of public money bailed out the banks. Bankers received £7 billion in bonuses this year. We're not all in this together.

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[DyerMedia]

Such a violent protest...

[iLike2Holdem]

The unions are not interested in the working people of Britain, only their over paid public service working members. They are only interested in protecting their members so they can protect their wages. Below is a list of Union leaders salaries in 08/09

Dave Prentis - Unison - £127,436

Christine Blower - NUT - £124,483

Derek Simpson - Unite - £120,328

Matt Wrack - Fire Brigades Union - £115,804

Bob Crow - RMT - £105,679

[rorshak73]

@portsanity TBH I have very little argument with any of that. Oh dear, youtube protagonists end up in broad agreement, how boring ;-)

[portsanity]

@rorshak73 What about when people massacre people for wealth?

I have no problem seeing the taxman as the thief,though in reality the tax man is only the middleman and it is the politicians who are the thieves when they spend your money on quangos,wars and building projects where nobody sees the value .

The problem i have is when one part of society is obliged to pay taxes and friends of the government do not

[rorshak73]

@portsanity Wealth creation causes most of the positive outcomes in society (health, longevity, comfort, freedom) while wealth destruction the bad. Throughout history, the tax man has been seen rightly as a thief backed up by the might of the state; with international finance, the limits of the modern state's reach are exposed; we should be suspicious when politicians talk about international laws to 'totalitarianise' their power. Yeah, they (and the banks) wind me up, but govt's the worst.

[portsanity]

@rorshak73 Interesting assumption.

But wealth is no indicator of good and bad

The money put in offshore accounts and thus denied the tax man puts people out of work,increases the demand on the jobs that are available,which in turn lowers wages and effects workers rights.

You may say that is morally neutral at worst but i say that is an attack on my standard of living and i am not going to just sit there and take it

[rorshak73]

@portsanity I know you think that's naughty, but if you work on the assumption that business is inherently good (wealth creating) and government inherently bad (wealth destroying) - such actions are morally neutral at worst :-)

[portsanity]

@rorshak73 Lets look at these "LEGAL" avoidance techniques.

Put all assets in your wife's name who has a caymen islands passport.

Get registered as a charity,not as a attempt to make your world better but to rip off the economy

[portsanity]

@iLike2Holdem F&M are no better than benefit thieves .

They benefit from services that we have paid for,police,roads,street lighting,ambulances,firebrigad­e,prisons

[portsanity]

The same people who own fortnum and mason also own primark

[rorshak73]

@blackamoor61 Spot on! It should be so simple to have everyone think like you, and I would be happy to live here.

[rorshak73]

@SniperOnTheDot Avoiding is legal, so you can't make them pay. Businesses have enough to do worrying about how to stay competitive without getting their accounts department to look into how they can pay more tax. Evading is illegal.