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('Profound f****** socialist') Emma Thompson to evade paying tax until other evaders are jailed
3 News ^ | 2/26/15

Posted on 03/01/2015 6:55:19 AM PST by Libloather

**SNIP**

The British couple is hoping to launch a protest movement in the aftermath of a recent tax scandal in the UK, during which it was alleged staff at the Swiss arm of the bank HSBC helped clients avoid hefty bills in Britain.

Thompson and Wise hope a mass tax boycott will convince bosses at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the government department responsible for collecting the money, to penalise wealthy citizens and companies who avoid paying their fair share.

Wise tells London's Evening Standard newspaper, "I want to stop paying tax, until everyone pays tax... I have actively loved paying tax, because I am a profound f**king socialist and I believe we are all in it together. But I am disgusted with HMRC. I am disgusted with HSBC. And I'm not paying a penny more until those evil b**stards go to prison.

(Excerpt) Read more at 3news.co.nz ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: emmathompson; europeanunion; giveherthechair; hmrc; hsbc; hypocrite; jailed; offwithherhead; socialist; taxes; thompson; unitedkingdom
"Em's on board. She agrees. We're going to get a load of us together. A movement. They can't send everyone to prison. But we'll go to prison if necessary. I mean it."

Count Sharpton in?

1 posted on 03/01/2015 6:55:19 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

So how’s that ‘’f****** socialism’’ working out for you Emma?


2 posted on 03/01/2015 7:02:32 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: Libloather

Oh, come on, Emma. We all know your cash is in the Cayman Islands.


3 posted on 03/01/2015 7:03:23 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Libloather

And to think she was ‘Miss Money-Sterling’ on the greatest TV show ever, ‘The Young Ones’.


4 posted on 03/01/2015 7:05:22 AM PST by real saxophonist (Spam, Spam, Spam, Bacon, and Spam. Extra Bacon.)
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To: Libloather
She has a point.

It's too bad we don't have the same attitude here in America when it comes to the billion dollars Berkshire-Hathaway owes or the millions Al Sharpton owes. I'm sure there are others. Many others.

The problem is, she probably helped get a lot of those skid-greasing politicians elected to office.

5 posted on 03/01/2015 7:05:42 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: real saxophonist
...the greatest TV show ever, ‘The Young Ones’.

The greatest? I'm not so sure.One of the best surely.Fawlty Towers is the greatest....IMHO.

6 posted on 03/01/2015 7:15:47 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama;A Low Grade Intellect With Lower Morals)
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To: Libloather

Count Sharpton in?


I’ve thought we should do that in the US regarding taxes.

e.g. I’ll pay taxes when Sharpton either pays his or is prosecuted. The law is to apply to everyone equally, regardless of race, color, creed, sex, politics or home planet.


7 posted on 03/01/2015 7:17:01 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Texas Eagle

1000%....that was my first instinct reading the post...


8 posted on 03/01/2015 7:18:47 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Texas Eagle

I’m sure there are others. Many others.....IRS employees, Treasury employees, etc., etc.


9 posted on 03/01/2015 7:29:11 AM PST by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: God luvs America

GMTA


10 posted on 03/01/2015 7:53:46 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Libloather

What is a ‘profound’ socialist? Is that like a socialist brain buried ‘deep’ in the ground?


11 posted on 03/01/2015 8:07:37 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: God luvs America; Texas Eagle

The animosity and hostility over people “paying their fair share” via ‘income taxation’ will never end and will always give deceitful socialists a soapbox to stand on.

The best solution is to abolish, scrap and repeal all income taxes and replace them with a retail consumption tax with provisions for no taxation on essentials of living. Such a solution is embodied in HR 25 and has ten times more support from members of Congress than any other tax reform:

https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr25/BILLS-114hr25ih.pdf


12 posted on 03/01/2015 8:13:21 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: cuban leaf
e.g. I’ll pay taxes when Sharpton either pays his or is prosecuted. The law is to apply to everyone equally, regardless of race, color, creed, sex, politics or home planet.

Problem is that the IRS will wait and wait to prosecute Al, but watch how fast they would come after you for doing the same.

13 posted on 03/01/2015 8:13:35 AM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarca only ones we can gesm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Hostage
It doesn't matter what kind of tax you have if those in positions of power and influence are liars, scumbags, cheats and thugs (sounds like a song Cher might have recorded).

The real solution is to reduce the size and scope of government and not elect jerkfaces like Sharpton and Obola in the first place.

A tall order either way.

14 posted on 03/01/2015 8:16:24 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

HR 25 leads to reducing the size of federal government by removing the smoke and mirrors that are everywhere in legislation of income tax issues, and hitting consumers everyday where they see it up close even though prices stabilize to their current levels. A gallon of gas, a gallon of milk will still cost about the same or lower but the federal taxes paid will be on every receipt.

People in positions of power cannot escape a retail consumption tax unless it is never spent or invested. If it is invested, they may personally avoid the consumption tax but the investment products eventually reach the retail consumer market in myriad forms and there the retail consumption tax is levied.

There’s no way around it. All production and supply chains reach an endpoint at the retail consumption level. A retail consumption tax captures everything.

And for those few who wish to evade a retail consumption tax, they have to find, unlike the income tax, a willing party in the tax evading transaction and how do they know that a willing party is not an undercover federal agent performing a sting? Unlike the income tax where it takes ***one*** person with two sets of books to evade income tax, under a retail consumption tax it takes ***two***.

Knowing that more than 70% of all retail transactions are performed by about 3000 corporate retail chains that have computerized records of all transactions, the enforcement of a retail consumption tax is orders of magnitude more manageable and effective that a smoke and mirrors one-party income tax.


15 posted on 03/01/2015 8:30:59 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Hostage

It’s like a limousine liberal. They like to spout their solidarity with the masses, but don’t look for them to forego their multi-million dollar homes, cars, jets, and mansions. No oppressed masses better knock on their doors either.


16 posted on 03/01/2015 9:39:16 AM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: Starstruck

Problem is that the IRS will wait and wait to prosecute Al, but watch how fast they would come after you for doing the same.


How much you want to bet there would be some sort of an “equal protection” lawsuit in that? You could take it all the way to the supreme court, if they would take it. The key is that his case is high profile.

The hypocrisy of prosecuting you or me while letting him skate is just too overt to be legal.


17 posted on 03/01/2015 12:39:08 PM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: driftless2

You’re just a middle class, socialist brat
From a suburban family and you never really had to work
And now you tell me that we’ve got to get back
To the struggling masses, whoever they are

Oingo Boingo - Capitalism


18 posted on 03/01/2015 12:41:29 PM PST by dfwgator
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