Quote Originally Posted by Lasterman View Post
If you're looking at this from a moral perspective, both Chris and Dave are not behaving well. My point is that people who say 'those at the top are the real villians' often overlook the fact that those people are often already contributing massively, as compared to those at the bottom who are contributing nothing. Had Chris sat on his backside like Dave, he'd also be contributing nothing, and in some eyes, be less of a villain for it. That doesn't make sense to me.

Someone made a point that anyone making a lot of money probably did it exploiting other people. My view is that's quite difficult to do when people are free to sell their labour for what it's worth, just about anywhere, but I'm sure we could argue about that all day.

So what do you do about this tax thing? Well I think you have to be a bit pragmatic, and the truth in 2017 is that people like Chris have the freedom to live and work anywhere they choose. That's what modern communications have allowed. So it might be better to get 20% of a million than 50% of nothing. I realise the temptation is to say 'well let them p*ss off then', but when they do, they take etheir money and their jobs with them. Nobody benefits from that - apart from Chris.
So you think we should allow things to stay as they are? Effectively the wealthy and even the super wealthy effectively paying the same rate of tax, if not less, than the rest of us?

Fair enough - so that keeps the sustained existing pressure on public services and a big question for us who use the public services. Hence surely we will have to change the rates of tax if we are to improve services (appropriate for this week). Are you happy to pay more personally as you and I will surely have to do, whilst Chris and much wealthier even than he, continue to pay less than us?