Comments on: Countering the cuts myths http://www.redpepper.org.uk/countering-the-cuts-myths/ Red Pepper Sat, 16 Feb 2013 06:23:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Andrew Walpole http://www.redpepper.org.uk/countering-the-cuts-myths/#comment-2200 Andrew Walpole Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:39:38 +0000 #comment-2200 'We don't have to live in a world where there is no limit to how much of our collective economic output goes to the rich, yet others do not have enough to eat.' 38 degrees estimate a far higher figure of tax siphoned off through loopholes: £120 billion. This is the very well off refusing even their basic civilian obligations to the system that already handsomely rewards them. It is the germ culture that leads inevitably to the international banking absurdities. ‘We don’t have to live in a world where there is no limit to how much of our collective economic output goes to the rich, yet others do not have enough to eat.’

38 degrees estimate a far higher figure of tax siphoned off through loopholes: £120 billion. This is the very well off refusing even their basic civilian obligations to the system that already handsomely rewards them. It is the germ culture that leads inevitably to the international banking absurdities.

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