5 Responses to “Scroungers”

1. edmund Says:
   June 12th, 2006 at 2:39 pm

   On come on there are two big differences

   1) There’s a diffence between taking money you don’t own and aren’t even entitled to and keeping money you have

   2) There’s a difference between keeping the law and breaking it

2. El Dave. Says:
   June 12th, 2006 at 6:23 pm

   Certainly.

   However, the legal position of some of these tax havens is at best dubious. There’s also a question as to where you direct your resources if you’re the state.

   Inveighing against ’scroungers’ while allowing people to loophole their way around their tax liability seems a little suspect to me, particularly when you look at the sums involved.

3. edmund Says:
   June 13th, 2006 at 7:03 pm

   That doesn’t deal at all with my point about legality -dubious is not illegal , this was clealry about legal tax changing.

   ~As for loopholes-these loopholes in the UK(unlike the US) are not speical they exist becasue the goverment doesn’t tax something - people diverting their expenditure to something less efficent is the inevitable product of statism That’s what you get for it.

4. El Dave. Says:
   June 13th, 2006 at 10:59 pm

   There is, though, an issue of conflating legality with morality. I think living in a country, benefitting from its services and so on, but deliberately putting your money out of reach is of dubious morality at best.

   xD.

5. edmund Says:
   June 18th, 2006 at 3:20 am

   a) how much do you think the se people pay in taxes comaped to what they recived in serives I expetect they pay more and I think you’d agree that’s probablly the case and

   b) ther’s a big diference between organising your affairs and lying to the authorites about them (including in ethics) and

   c) there’s a difence between keeping money you’re entitled to and taking money you’re not

   Glad you except hte legaltiy

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