£13trillion: hoard hidden from taxman by global elite

Yawn, given the opportunity, anybody and everybody tries whatever they can to pay as little tax or even avoid it, whenever possible. I would do it, you would do it, the rich do it, the middle class that can afford a private accountant now and then do it, and people who move up the ladder do it. This ostracization of people (only rich people BTW, why not the middle class, who avoid tax as much as possible and are perhaps the biggest beneficiaries of state welfare above anyone else)

If I were involved in a fatal RTA, I'd be dead, so no bills need to be footed.

You're really not getting this.

Of course, but it would be disasterous for them personally and professionally.

No right whatsoever, but these people have it within their grasp to literally SAVE THE ****ING WORLD and they're too greedy and apathetic to bother.

They could easily put an end to suffering on an unimaginable scale but they don't, that's a terrible thing, it's sick. Also, it's pure luck that they find themselves in such a privileged position and not in some godforsaken african **** hole.

I don't think there's a problem with recognising that and being angry about it. As for my "sense of entitlement", I'm just aware that none of us can do anything on our own. Anyone who gets anywhere in life has at some point been afforded opportunities completely through luck - whether that's the body they were born into, the mind the universe shaped for them, the country of their birth, the access to education/resources, whatever. They did none of that stuff on purpose. They find themselves in a position of massive, disproportionate privilege but they did not do that all by themselves, no ****ing way. They were helped by others and now they are in a position to repay the world that favour by helping people who never had the same luck as them, born into ****ty circumstances through no fault of their own, and who currently live in preventable misery.

PS. I'm not talking about giving handouts to the layabout parasites we have so many of in this country. I'm talking about the huge number of people in the world who have essentially nothing, who starve to death by their millions every year. Those people can't get themselves out of that situation on their own. They need a leg up first if they are ever going to be able to look after themselves.

Yawn, given the opportunity, anybody and everybody tries whatever they can to pay as little tax or even avoid it, whenever possible. I would do it, you would do it, the rich do it, the middle class that can afford a private accountant now and then do it, and people who move up the ladder do it. This ostracization of people (only rich people BTW, why not the middle class, who avoid tax as much as possible and are perhaps the biggest beneficiaries of state welfare above anyone else)

This, although I doubt you're going to get a reply.

you've not really thought this through, have you.

Whilst the largest portion of the total averaged cost of a fatal rta would probably be your loss of lifelong earnings, the remaining costs still amount to an awful lot. Most likely in the region of £1-2 million (road disruption, emergency services, psychological cost of outfall of that sort of tragedy re. family, emergency services, onlookers, others involved in accident), cost of damage etc etc.

The cost of the ambulance itself is minimal. After all, they're just driving a puddle of you to the morgue.

People that want to avoid paying any tax rarely take the time to properly research the complexities of what their tax is actually paying for.

Good. Those trillians are far better off in the hands of those who earned it than in the hands of incompetent governments and welfare parasites.

I am only disappointed that the number is not as high as it could be.

In which case the government should cut tax rates. It's not for private citizens to decide what level of tax it is economically efficient for them to pay or which laws it's worth obeying.

Tax avoidance/evasion subverts the free market by making bigger firms with better tax lawyers artificialy more competitive regardless of the quality or price of the goods and services they sell.

As for the psychological cost - well I'm sure that's a real shame, but as I'm a careful driver, any RTA I'll be involved in will probably not be my fault, so I can't really accept the liability of their psychological damage

nothing to do with me

I expected positive responses to this because it's TSR, but it's still so disheartening to see so many people buying into a myth which hurts them. Trickle down economics has got an almost religious aspect to it - "Submit to our authority, follow our teachings and in a later life you will be rewarded". But of course the rewards never materialise, and like the afterlife people are expected to take the existence of this wonderful world we're supposedly heading towards on faith, and as with God and natural disasters we're expected to believe that the big players in our economy are responsible for none of the bad that happens and all of the good.

how does this work. you're ideologically opposed to the current system, so you shouldn't have to pay?

By the same token, I refuse to accept responsibility for OTHER people's problems, and think that they, as I have done, should discard their false and inflated sense of entitlement, and realise that if they want something or need something, then they should work for it on their own terms.

right, what if it is your fault though?

What if they can't?

Yes, but what moral right and authority do YOU or any government have to force that responsibility upon someone?

None whatsoever. Get your own water, your own food, your own shelter and your own education and stop going about your life like the world owes you something.

The world owes you NOTHING.

It's your sense of entitlement that is wrong with the society.