Yeah, right. In a little over a month I’m going to have to hand over around £5k (which would be higher if I hadn’t used every opportunity to aggressively avoid tax wherever possible). That’s money I have earned and the state will take off me at the point of a gun (metaphorically). The state will then proceed to piss this money – that I have earned – up the wall on various fake charities, foreign aid, quangos and an over-bloated third sector. These parasites will use this money to lobby the government to restrict further my liberties to live my life as I see fit and campaign for the state to steal even more of my money. So, no, I will not hand it over with any show of grace whatsoever. I’ll hand it over as the hapless traveller hands his purse to the highwayman, because I have no choice, not because I want to and certainly there will never be an occasion when I will love either it, the state or the parasitic third sector hangers-on that I am forced to pay for.
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Yes, I really enjoyed paying the state £57k corporation tax today, the same day said state spunked £500m on a campaign to tell people that {gasp!} smoking isn’t healthy.
They spend it so much better than us, don’t they?
Most of it these days goes to the Common Market, sorry EEC, sorry EU. Or is that Greater Germania or Grande Europe? So hard to tell these days.
Roll on next May – as long as we don’t end up with a Labour / SNP coalition then we might get somewhere.
I don’t mind tax – but then I used to be an accountant. Very profitable, tax planning. These days I don’t earn enough to worry about it much…
I see that Simon Cooke has quoted from your above piece:
http://theviewfromcullingworth.blogspot.co.uk/
I have exactly the same view – do not pay for your own persecution, if you can possibly avoid it.
The problem is that the vast majority of smokers do not know that they are being persecuted. It is remarkable that this is so! Or perhaps not, when the MSM sides with that persecution.
I wonder when the MSM will find it to their advantage (newspaper sales) to reverse their support? It is bound to happen, and, in a small way, is already becoming apparent. Take, for example, the new advert from PHE. Everything about it promotes tobacco. Surely, the MSM must point this out? It shows a person rolling a cig; it shows him smoking it; should not previous advertising from PHE continue the theme and have the rotting flesh contents of the burning cig waft around the kiddies? And should not tumours appear on the kids? Or at least scabs?
Complaints to the ASA seem to be useless, but a little cleverness might we worthwhile. EG. A complaint to the ASA which includes a statement that a complaint has also been lodged with one’s local MP.
Tomorrow, I’ll complain to the ASA. I succeeded some time ago when a newspaper claimed that pubs had not suffered from the smoking ban. They did so by quoting out-of-date figures from National Statistics. The newspaper in question had to correct the information. Thus, it is not impossible for an individual to get corrections (even if they are totally useless!).