• UK: Owe more than £1,000 in tax and the government will simply go into your bank account and take it
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[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;44305528]Pay your fucking taxes, or don't benefit from government regulations/systems.[/QUOTE] Which includes roads, public drinking water, and clean air free of major pollution.
[QUOTE=J$ Psychotic;44305600]Which includes roads, public drinking water, and clean air free of major pollution.[/QUOTE] and in the case of the United Kingdom: Healthcare. I don't care if you don't support wars, hate corruption in your government, or akin to that. If that's a problem, protest. If you simply stop paying taxes because, "well I don't support this government!" you are being childish and refuse to accept the reality that your government interacts with about 98% of your daily life. I hear the argument that it's theft to take tax money from a single mother, on the flip side it's theft for that mother to not contribute back for government aid programs. I know a good sum of the younger generation in the UK(and in partial, the USA) are not patriotic, but can you honestly throw your fellow countrymen and countrywomen under the bus because you are being greedy?
[QUOTE=lintz;44300729]a lot of things have been careening towards 1984 lately.[/QUOTE] i hate it when people say this 1984 was a satire of the soviet union, not a predictive text of the future by saying "if the government puts a cctv camera in a car park, big brother is just around the corner"
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;44305729] 1984 was a satire of the soviet union,[/QUOTE] Not just the Soviet Union. It was a general blanket-"fuck you" of the extremes of communism and socialism and corruption in general. But again, not predictive or a cautionary tale. Of course, we have aspects similar to 1984 in the western world (revised history according to recent events (the airbrushing of the WTC out of movies/photos post-9/11), words you can't say (any kind of governmental threat), indefinite detainment.), but we're nowhere near that level, and probably never will be. I don't know about you, but I can still buy razor blades and I'm still allowed to turn my TV off.
[QUOTE=Drsalvador;44308418]I don't know about you, but I can still buy razor blades and [B]I'm still allowed to turn my TV off[/B].[/QUOTE] How do you resist the Orwellian thought control of "We'll be right back after the break, don't go anywhere"?
Now make it so you don't have to pay taxes and instead government takes the amount needed itself.
[QUOTE=smurfy;44308444]How do you resist the Orwellian thought control of "We'll be right back after the break, don't go anywhere"?[/QUOTE] But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved This Morning.
[QUOTE=ElectronicG19;44300685]I thought it was 2014 not 1984[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=The mouse;44300804]It's more like A Brave new world imo.[/QUOTE] [T]http://www.juxtapoz.com/images_old/stories/2011/JXJan2011/Huxley/Orwell.jpg[/T]
How about companies that didn't pay tax ? It's easy to bully a little man.
tax was always theft, but at least they used to try and deny it.
[QUOTE=AntonioR;44308632]How about companies that didn't pay tax ? It's easy to bully a little man.[/QUOTE] Overtaxing companies makes problems. UK corporate tax is quite high compared to other countries (which is one reason shittonnes of companies run their UK business from ROI) A better solution would be to make UK corporate tax competitive - these companies would likely choose to run in the UK rather than Ireland.
Break the law, lose your rights and privileges.
[QUOTE=Azarath;44308681]tax was always theft, but at least they used to try and deny it.[/QUOTE] How exactly is taxation always theft?
If we can bleed the rich tax dodgers for what they owe, more power to this. Authoritarian as it sounds, if you refuse to pay taxes you are still going to pay taxes regardless, thanks to this new law.
Pretty sure those businesses affluent enough to take their accounts offshore won't be able to be touched. This will probably just be used on individuals and small businesses.
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