There were protests yesterday outside banks by members of UK Uncut dressed as doctors, protesting about "tax evasion" by the banks, and their role in the credit crunch, and hence their perceived role in the (non-existient) cuts to the NHS [Link]. First of all, like I've said before, the NHS is a Stalinist organisation which puts money before patients all the time, and fails in patient healthcare compared to the systems in most other developed countries, and thus needs to be euthanized, but I've already talked about it here.
The protesters do have a point, in saying that big businesses tend to pay less tax than small ones, due to offshore
accounts in tax havens and so on. However, the argument isn't to make them pay more tax, but for the small
businesses to pay less. The government knows that without these tax "loopholes", the places like Topshop,
Vodafone etc. wouldn't do business in the UK at all, so they would get more tax revenue if they allow these
companies to exploit these loopholes. This however makes it harder for the small business to compete, so it would
be fair to lower taxes to smaller businesses as well. However, I'm sure this has more to do with big business
"lobbying", and less to do with the economic ineptness of politicians. The point is that instead of defending stupid,
inept public organisations like the NHS, they should be defending tax cuts for small businesses, which will then
increase employment, increase tax revenue, and make us all better off as a result
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