to change. I follow such people on Twitter and
they are close enough to power to know how it
works and yet they don't have any interest in
moving things towards a solution.
They just make clean, clear points when they
know politicians don't follow Twitter and don't
care about anybody unless that person or group
scares them or endangers their political career.
We need people who can do that.
We've been pointing fingers at criminals for
a good 5 years now and nothing. Those who
know how, must act to help things change.
e.g.
Nassim Taleb on Twitter
promised to act to stop economic malfeasance.
Twitter:
Nassim N.
Taleb @nntaleb 29 Apr
Moral
courage doesn't reside in "doing good" so much
as in fighting the
bad. My moral obligation is to destroy
econ estblshmnt, and I will.
That's a good start. The right attitude.
Now, here's another slow-moving do-gooder:
Checkit: Tax research
1
Why
Npower’s tax avoidance matters
Posted
on April 30 2013
38
Degrees have a way with words, creating short messages that work.
As
they say of Npower’s tax avoidance this morning in an email to their
supporters:
This is more sinister than just a spot of
clever accounting. Every time a company like Npower avoids paying their fair
share, it means one of two things for the rest of us: more cuts or tax rises.
I
agree with that.
That
is precisely why this matters. This tax avoidance is either an exercise in
shifting the burden of tax onto ordinary people or an exercise in cutting the
services they need. And either way it’s wholly unacceptable.
2 and again: TAX
RESEARCH
[It's been KNOWN about for 60 YEARS!
Though the INTERNET HAS FORCED THIS, it's not good
enough. It's well past high time to do something.]
The
EU’s €1 trillion tax loss
Posted
on April 14 2013
According
to Reuters:
Tax dodging causes the European Union to
lose around 1 trillion euros of income each year, the president of the European
Council said on Friday as he announced that EU leaders would discuss the issue
at a summit next month.
This hemorrhage of tax revenues is equivalent
to the entire annual economic output of Spain, and far exceeds a total of about
400 billion euros committed to bailouts of euro zone members Greece, Ireland,
Portugal and Cyprus in coming years.
“We must seize the increased political
momentum to address this critical problem,” Herman Van Rompuy, who chairs
meetings of EU leaders, said in a statement broadcast on the Internet.
“Tax evasion is unfair to citizens who work
hard and pay their share of taxes for society to work. It is unfair to companies
that pay their taxes – but find it hard to compete because others don’t.”
