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A blog by Frank Adey
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
UK Uncut protest
Here are a few protesters in town on behalf of the UK Uncut campaign. This aims to contrast tax avoidance with government cuts. The idea is to blockade shops belonging to those who, in the opinion of the campaigners, don't pay enough tax.
The arithmetic doesn't add up; the country's debt runs into trillions. The millions which the 'evaders' are supposedly hanging on to doesn't come near to balancing the books. Secondly, the fact that there is a moral justification for many of the cuts is not being addressed. Finally. and most importantly, tax avoidance (as opposed to evasion) is perfectly legal, and I suspect most people who are in a position to avoid paying excessive tax do so. In a country which made heroes of of fictional petty crooks like Arthur Daley and the Trotter Brothers, this campaign is a non-starter.
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