Read tonite.
How the British destroyed their own great country and their most famous artists. I seem to remember reading that the Rolling Stones, too, at one point had to go live in France, of all outlandish places, to avoid being bankrupted.
Well, THERE’S a whole lot of it wasn’t Yoko.
“Spending reductions in the tax code”
“Kinetic military action”
And many more. It’s as if people (excluding most Freepers) don’t understand the implications of a government that uses such blatant newspeak and doublethink...
Didn’t McCartney claim Tuscon as his home? Lennon claimed NYC & Starr claim L.A?
It became a regular cottage industry in the UK to help wealthy folks, show biz types especially, find other places to live. Roger Moore ended up in Switzerland. Mick Jagger got a nice place in Jamaica. Others flew the coop for places like Spain, France, and South America.
So much for "soaking the rich". They just leave. They've got the money to do it. So who gets stuck with the tax bill then? Same ones as always, the ordinary working schmucks. Why don't people ever call these lousy demagogue politicians when they start spouting their "tax the rich" crap?
the Congressional Progressive Caucus proposed its “People’s Budget”
People’s Budget?! Sounds like something Mao Zedong or the Soviet Politburo would have come up with.
Bump for later.
“Half a century later, in his famous 1966 song “Taxman,” George Harrison, singing in the guise of a sardonic tax collector, warns listeners that he will keep 19 of every 20 pounds they earn,”
this isn’t quite right, the reason it’s “one for you, nineteen for me” is because at the time a pound was made up of 20 shillings, each shilling being 12 pennies. 19 shillings would be 95%. I still have a bag of silver shillings kicking around the place somewhere. the money system was changed when I was in junior school, circa 1972 to the 100 pence system they still use today.
Interesting!
“This story is widely known. But what often gets overlooked is the fact that without the potent tax dilemma, it is doubtful that the Apple group of companies would ever have been founded in the first place. In other words, no super tax, no Apple fiasco. No Apple fiasco, no Allen Klein. No Allen Klein, no lawsuit.”
In fact, from beyond the grave, Lloyd George had forced the Beatles to spend more time figuring out how to shelter their wealth than making music. It is hard to believe that they would not have behaved more rationally, and stayed together longer as a working band, under a milder tax policy.
bttt