Refuse collector salary – $ 47,810 – Tax – $7,410
A Refuse Collector pays more tax than Elon Musk!!
Capitalists and the Media conspire!
It doesn’t surprise me in the least. The wealthy don’t like fairness. They own the media. They control investment and the money markets. It’s in their interests to undermine any attempt at having a fairer distribution of wealth. They like the Tories and low taxes, tax loopholes so they can continue their profiteering.
They certainly don’t want Labour to succeed. By withholding capital they can create failure.
Land Without Hope or Glory
Land Without Hope or Glory
For the last night of the poms!
Land Without Hope or Glory
Land without hope or glory – now no longer free
Ravaged and plundered – with the utmost glee
Wider still and wider – inequality set
Tory Lords and Masters – to make it wider yet.
Sunak who broke your spirit – can make your poorer yet!
Yes, Tories who made you poorer – can make you poorer yet!
Land without hope or glory – now no longer free
How shall we deplore thee, who are born of thee
Wider still and wider – inequality set
The ERG who robbed you – shall rob you greater yet
Yes, the Tories who robbed you – shall rob you greater yet!
Opher – 9.3.2023
Well I look at the state of the nation with its broken public services, zero hours and an enslaved nation of workers slaving away to make ends meet in this cost of living crisis.
I look at Johnson, the hundreds of Tory Donors, the VIP lane and Tory MPs walking away to their tax havens in the Caymans, pocketing millions for doing nothing. The huge bonuses, tax loopholes, cash for questions, Russian donors, betting scandal, PPE scandals, Lady Mone and Hancock’s landlord, Greenswill and revolving doors – the corruption and greed is built in!
I look at the impoverishment of the country and the poverty of its citizens and thought that I needed to rework a few jingoistic songs to make them fit the times we live in.
I look at the brainwashing, the propaganda pushed out by the media and I thought this would do as the Tory Party Anthem.
The Cayman Islands is doing very well!! Plenty of tax-free deposits!!
Formed by the wealthy to look after the interests of the wealthy!! Liz Truss just the latest in a long line of lying exploiters who see their job as cutting public services, keeping wages down, giving tax breaks to the wealthy, providing loopholes for the rich to stash their cash away and avoid tax altogether and keeping the plebs in their place.
Just enough not to riot!!
Fair Taxation
Fair Taxation
Close the loopholes, don’t be lax
Graduate the income tax
The economy will have a bounce
Just from taxing the off-shore accounts
Fair taxation! Fair taxation!
The heart of any civilised nation!
Everyone should be aware
Ensure fat cats pay their share
For fairness in the economy
We need greater equality.
Fair taxation! Fair taxation!
The heart of any civilised nation!
So politicians do what’s right
Graduate the tax tonight.
The whole country will cheer
If those loopholes disappear!
Fair taxation! Fair taxation!
The heart of any civilised nation!
Opher & Bumba 17.1.2017
With A/I creating greater and greater inequality the world is either going to move into a situation where there is no employment and most of humanity is in hopelessly languishing in desperate misery while a small elite have more money than they can possibly deal with, or we find a way forward.
Without fair taxation there is a future of mass migration, war and hate.
There will be violent revolution.
It’s already happening.
Tax loopholes – Why don’t they close them??
Only the poor pay taxes.
The wealthy chose to use Green Cards or Non Dom status and a hundred other loopholes. They stash millions away in the Cayman Islands without paying a penny.
Sportspeople, actors, politicians and wealthy businessmen and bankers get away without paying a penny why those on subsistence salaries are forced to pay every penny.
Who is the whole dirty system running for??
Poetry – Bribes and Lies
Bribes and Lies
Bribes and lies,
Hype and bravado,
More Bosch
Than they’ve got in the Prado.
Divided in hate,
Stoking the fire,
Populist tyrant
Thrown in the mire.
Democracy ditched
In a torrid coup
As Cummings’ thugs
Dissolve the glue.
General election
Or Brexit extension
As austerity crisis
Gets hardly a mention.
They think we’ll forget
The savage Tory cuts
As they sink the economy
And the country shuts.
Opher 4.9.2019
How do the Tories manage to persuade a substantial segment of the population to vote for them when they manifestly do not represent the interests of those people? Do they think everyone forgets the years when they have hammered both the poor and public services while giving tax cuts to the wealthy?
Tax evasion is the real problem.
Paradise for the Rich?? Purgatory for the Poor???
The leaking of the Paradise Papers sheds light on what we already know.
They clearly demonstrate the full extent of the scam being carried out by the rich elite. 13.4 million documents from a variety of off-shore tax havens in Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, the Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the Cook Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Labuan, Lebanon, Malta, the Marshall Islands, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent, Samoa, Trinidad and Tobago, and Vanuatu, clearly demonstrates the extent of the problem. This is not small time.
The rich and powerful are secretly hoarding away their ill-gotten gains in tax havens abroad in order to avoid paying tax. And you know what the worst part of it is – this is legal!!!
Despite all the austerity programmes and massive cuts: despite the millions on the bread-line, cuts in welfare and for the disabled; despite the underfunding of schools and the NHS, the underfunding of care-homes for the elderly and services for communities, it is still alright for the rich to get pay rises, tax breaks and find tax loopholes. Even the Queen is squirrelling away 10 Million.
I find it obscene. But we have become used to it haven’t we?
We live in a country where our tax forms are scrutinised to ensure we pay every penny and have to justify every pound of income. Where the media shriek about a few people who have benefit fraud and are robbing the tax payers of thousands. Yet the rich are legally robbing the tax payers of billions.
That money that they are taking abroad should be properly taxed and invested in the countries it was ‘earned’ in (I use that term loosely). What these people are doing is criminal!! They should be made to pay!!!
How many more times are governments going to promise to seal these loopholes?? They do nothing. The rich and powerful can do what they like. There is one rule for one and another for the rest of us.
The rich and powerful are robbing us blind!!