Silver-spooned slobberychops George Osborne is targeting folks who live on benefits and are classed as 'work-shy.' Sad to relate, it is possible to remember when full employment was an achievable ambition. And then Thatcher came along - to turn vast swathes of Industrial Britain into a wasteland. And lo! As night follows day - unemployment soared. And remained. And a culture of living off the state was ingrained into sink estate culture.
Compare and contrast. Simultaneously there was a rapid growth in offshore tax havens, tax avoidance and multinationals using the financial system to reduce their tax bills. For instance, for many years News International made a loss in the UK, but their little office in Lichtenstein made an absolute fortune. And in all that time Murdoch's organs lectured the rest of us about the sorry souls who claimed benefits and who also worked in the black economy.
So who does slobberychops go for? The soft target of so-called 'benefit scroungers,' which could realise the colossal sum of 5 billion? Or the evasive mendacious mega rich, with their army of slippery accountants who advise them to contribute to whichever party is currently in power and which could realise at least 90 billion for the governments purse?
Well dang my doo dads. Fancy that!
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