If your one of the ordinary citizen of
your country, and one of that dwindling band who still have a job,
you'll have no option but to pay your taxes. Even if you are not
working, you are still taxed via VAT, you pay tax on practically
everything you buy, you are even taxed when you cook and heat your
house. We are told that we pay taxes to make society a better place,
our taxes pay for social services hospitals and such. There is
probably enough taxes paid by you and me to end poverty in our
country and see to the needs of the vulnerable. However, our taxes
also pay for the state to arm itself to the teeth and send armies
across the globe to kill other ordinary people who pay their taxes, and that's a big slice
of our money. So we put up with poverty allowing the state to rob us
so that it can play its game of power and control.
There are however, those in this society
that don't bother with that crap of paying taxes, they just keep
their money and spend it on themselves, I'm talking about
corporations, that band of greed merchants that at the moment control our world. Apple, just one of those corporations, in recent years paid practically no tax on $78 billion simply by setting up shell corporations in low-tax countries and posting profits abroad. It is considered that across the globe, the corporate
world avoid paying taxes to the tune of $1 trillion every year.
That's a fair slice of money, it is reckoned that it could end
poverty, it's enough to give every family on the planet $1,000 every
year, or put every child on the planet in school, it is almost as much as the military budget for every country on the planet, and bigger than
the total budget of 176 nations. But instead, it goes into expanding corporate power and keeping an army of parasites in unimaginable luxury.
We know that those duplicitous suits, the political class,
will not do much, if anything, to prevent this bonanza for the rich, as they are
part and parcel of the same corporate world, they are the puppets of their corporate masters. The only real answer is
for the people to take control of those corporations, change the
production from crap trivia for fashionistas, to producing what the
people of the world actually need. In one fell swoop we would end
poverty and deprivation, get rid of that army of parasites and the need to bother trying to get them to pay their taxes.
