The government has put on a wee publicity stunt, it has increased the bank levy from £1.7bln. to £2.5bln. and guess what, the bank bosses are livid. Rightly so, doesn't this government realise that the deficit has nothing to do with the banks, that's the tax payers responsibility. As far as the financial world is concerned it is up to the ordinary people to pay for the deficit and let them get on with ripping-off everybody and anybody, while paying themselves massive bonuses. As far as the amount of the bank levy, it can be put in proportion when it is compared to what the bank bonuses are expected reach. It looks like the poor hard done by bankers will have to get by with a mere £6 billion bonus pot this year. Tax the bankers a fraction of what they should be paying and they squeal and jump up and down doing their livid thing. Slash the standard of living for the vast majority of the population and the financial parasites proclaim that the government is on the right track. Makes you think, doesn't it, well it should.
And we all know that the only reason the bankers are acting so livid is that if they let on that they knew how easy the government had let them off then we'd all be really pissed.
ReplyDeleteThe government pays lip service to upping taxes, the bankers do the cartoon anger, and they all laugh at the silly little people who fall for the charade.
It's not our deficit, it's not even the bankers deficit, it's the politicians deficit and no one - whether they work in an investment bank or a ship yard should be getting their money stolen to pay for politicians vote buying and fiscal ineptitude.
It's the system's deficit, if there is a deficit at all, the money didn't disappear it went into other bank accounts. That's what the system does best, it siphons money to those who already have plenty. So, ineptitude? No the system is working fine it's doing what it is intended to do. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. That's why they have no intention of changing it.
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