03-04-14, 01:09 PM
Quote:bear in mind our lovely country is bursting at the seams with excess cash mountains. NOT !!
But it is. This country is stinking rich. Sure it currently has a bit of a debt problem. But if everybody paid their fair share that debt mountain could be sorted out in just a few years.
The big problem is that the big fat corporations, with their big fat cat bosses and directors along with their rich shareholders are not paying their taxes. A whole host of them do not pay any corporation tax. I gotta pay my income tax, I'd love not to, but I've no choice, I'm PAYE, I have to pay. I wouldn't mind paying it, but why do those super rich corporations not have to pay their taxes. Billions upon billions upon billions of pounds are not being paid. Meanwhile these big companies pay their staff as little as possible, often so little that their employees have to claim benefits, which means that muggins here, who has paid all his taxes, every bloody penny, has to pay more tax that I should to pay the rich peoples employees.
As for the people in Chile, give em whatever help they need, who cares what it costs. But oh, don't forget that pledging and delivering are two separate things. Would you trust David Cameron?
And maybe we owe em too, the UK was complicit in American foreign policy, such as the 11th of September 1973 when the democratically elected government of Chile was overthrown in a CIA back coup and right wing military junta was installed.