I am angry with my Government and the Parliament. I feel both of these have a large presence in my country. They employ thousands of people, well actually millions of people. The Government has done of huge amount of damage to the High Street through increasing taxes and regulations. It has pushed a number of independent companies out of business. The fact that they are have no responsibility to tax payers, while being here, I find Abhorrent.
Maybe you should consider what is really hurting the Economy. The fact that your government is borrowing 5 billions every two weeks on the markets to keep functioning because its damn broke and cannot handle a budget, or the fact that Google did not pay (while absolutely legal) a few hundred millions in last year. If you apply the 80/20 rule, I think your attention is well misguided.
So if you ever run into financial trouble and I owe you money, when you come to me and ask for the money back I can tell you that I'm not paying it back because you need to get your affairs in order first?
The two things aren't linked, the fact that we need to get our house in order is surely a reason to make sure we're ensuring we can get in whatever revenue we can?
No, you do not get my point. In both cases, it's YOUR tax money we are talking about. It is very much connected. So, if two people owe you money, do you go to the one who owes you 1 billion dollars or to the one who owes you 10 dollars first?
Well, it is fairly obvious that fixing the huge debt problem in the UK and all developed countries in the similar situation is the most urgent thing to do instead of trying to fill the hole with the "missing" taxes here and there, because no matter how Google and other will pay in tax locally it will never make up for the huge hole they are digging everyday through their inability to keep a straight budget.
I really dislike this kind of logic. Just because a greater problem exists, does not mean nobody should be allowed to focus on anything else. Should I not be allowed to volunteer or donate money to Hurricate Sandy relief efforts in the NYC area because more people die of cancer?
No, this means that you should be worried about the Cancer that is killing you (sovereign debt raising by hundred of billions every year) instead of the rash on your skin (a few millions X company did not pay over a year).
It's all a matter of priorities, and proportions. And the media (usually state-controlled, at least partly) certainly want you to see the "skin rash" rather than their own mistakes, because you should be way more angry by how lax they are with YOUR money in the first place.
If I had cancer I'd still get a skin rash sorted out (and I don't think that's just a problem with your metaphor).
Sorting out the government debt needs to happen but the 600-odd MPs and hundreds of thousands of civil servants employed by the UK government may well be capable of dealing with as many as two things.
Maybe you should consider what is really hurting the Economy. The fact that your government is borrowing 5 billions every two weeks on the markets to keep functioning because its damn broke and cannot handle a budget, or the fact that Google did not pay (while absolutely legal) a few hundred millions in last year. If you apply the 80/20 rule, I think your attention is well misguided.