

this board needs more posters
comments like that doesn't help the cause.
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Thu 21 Jun 2012, 13:20,
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comments like that doesn't help the cause.

it only takes a second to up the compression. lead by example and all that :)
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Thu 21 Jun 2012, 13:22,
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are you feeling undervalued today ?
feeling the need to ascert your mod status on the board ?
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Thu 21 Jun 2012, 13:28,
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feeling the need to ascert your mod status on the board ?

calm down dear, it was just a polite comment.
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Thu 21 Jun 2012, 13:38,
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he eat wrong brand of basalt today.
grr! broke tooths.
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Thu 21 Jun 2012, 13:46,
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grr! broke tooths.

I haven't got much time for pedantic folk though.
especially from unsalaried community police officers and overzealous board mods
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Thu 21 Jun 2012, 13:47,
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especially from unsalaried community police officers and overzealous board mods
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or the jersey cow fax avoidance scheme or the cross charged plus rate accumulator scheme that's widely available in..... what's that? you want a 10 year old repost? Ok then

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Thu 21 Jun 2012, 13:14,
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And if you wouldn't, then you're clearly a better man than either of us will ever be.
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Thu 21 Jun 2012, 13:15,
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publicly shame a few well known names into sorting out their tax while leaving the loopholes open so his mates can keep their low tax rates.
Requires almost zero effort from him, diverts attention elsewhere and bizarrely he looks like the good guy
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Thu 21 Jun 2012, 13:19,
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Requires almost zero effort from him, diverts attention elsewhere and bizarrely he looks like the good guy

And the sooner the smug bastard gets knocked off his moral perch, the better.
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Thu 21 Jun 2012, 13:23,
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By declaring it immoral, he's going to have to justify the behaviour of his friends and family (and the fact he is doing nothing to close the loophole).
It's a popular story - hopefully the Times will run with it and name and shame MPs next.
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Thu 21 Jun 2012, 13:30,
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It's a popular story - hopefully the Times will run with it and name and shame MPs next.

There's a lot of folks on under 20K a year exploiting tax loopholes, I suspect these are the real targets of all this OMG TAX brainwashing.
And yes, if I had an income of 2 million a year and I could pull only paying 100K in income tax, I'd do it.
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Thu 21 Jun 2012, 13:42,
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And yes, if I had an income of 2 million a year and I could pull only paying 100K in income tax, I'd do it.

Very few people would choose to pay more tax than they have to, especially if they know that other people in their position do not.
I don't even really see Jimmy as a hypocrite for taking the piss out of a system whilst benefiting from it - he may still believe the loophole needs to be closed.
That recent Stephen King "tax me" letter got it spot on with regards to why individuals acting morally cannot do much.
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Thu 21 Jun 2012, 13:27,
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I don't even really see Jimmy as a hypocrite for taking the piss out of a system whilst benefiting from it - he may still believe the loophole needs to be closed.
That recent Stephen King "tax me" letter got it spot on with regards to why individuals acting morally cannot do much.

And David Cameron seems remarkably keen to repeat his rabbit-in-the-headlights moment at the Leveson inquiry, when he realised his entire political career was under very close scrutiny, and decided the best way out of it was to look flustered and sip more water than any innocent man ever would.
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Thu 21 Jun 2012, 13:54,
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David Cameron I mean. How dare he come out and - unprompted - say something like that about Carr when in April he flatly refused under questioning to go into the morality of his new government advisor's dealings - "it is not appropriate for me to discuss an individual's tax position".
news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9715000/9715304.stm
So the tax avoidance schemes that were Cameron's father's line of business, through which he amassed a personal fortune in excess of £10M are OK but this scheme is bad is it?
And while I'm on the subject, since when were stand-up comedians supposed to set the moral compass for the nation FFS?
Carr's f&cked up. He's manned up. He's apologised. Let's hear every other tw@ who's used this or similar schemes do the same.
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Thu 21 Jun 2012, 13:18,
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news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9715000/9715304.stm
So the tax avoidance schemes that were Cameron's father's line of business, through which he amassed a personal fortune in excess of £10M are OK but this scheme is bad is it?
And while I'm on the subject, since when were stand-up comedians supposed to set the moral compass for the nation FFS?
Carr's f&cked up. He's manned up. He's apologised. Let's hear every other tw@ who's used this or similar schemes do the same.

to be more angry about Carr's hypocrisy than the shitty tax laws.
If he hadn't done that bankers sketch, I bet no one would have cared.
Wish Carr had tried to turn it back on Cameron in his apology, though.
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Thu 21 Jun 2012, 13:34,
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If he hadn't done that bankers sketch, I bet no one would have cared.
Wish Carr had tried to turn it back on Cameron in his apology, though.

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Thu 21 Jun 2012, 13:44,
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It's entirely possible the guy who gave him economic advice didn't actually point out a few minor details, and as long as he said "Oh don't worry, it's all perfectly legal and above board," then why would anybody not go for it?
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