tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post4002746510110506906..comments2024-03-26T09:38:39.888+00:00Comments on Borthlas: Don't do evilJohn Dixonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07447224248021209852noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-45680351879437035352013-05-22T15:51:03.181+01:002013-05-22T15:51:03.181+01:00There's more on this today with Ed Miliband ap...There's more on this today with Ed Miliband apparently "in a row" with Google- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22613205<br /><br />Google's position is quite simple- "Eric Schmidt said Google followed "the tax laws of the countries we operate in"."<br /><br />Miliband should pledge to changing the tax laws. It's getting ridiculous now with huge sums being lost to national budgets. Will Miliband put anything in this in the Labour manifesto, and then deliver on it? I very much doubt it. It's all talk, and doing anything about it would require significantly strong political leadership. Miliband won't provide that.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-46196481777217517912013-05-22T09:30:18.380+01:002013-05-22T09:30:18.380+01:00Amon. 20 May 23:32 and 21 May 13:49
Hear! Hear! H...Amon. 20 May 23:32 and 21 May 13:49<br /><br />Hear! Hear! Hear!Spirit of BMEnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-58436264466622098472013-05-21T13:49:39.868+01:002013-05-21T13:49:39.868+01:00Maximizing profits is not what most capitalist com...Maximizing profits is not what most capitalist companies are there for, it is to massage the egos of many of their top employees and owners, if they were maximizing they would not need a top of the range car, 1st class flights, prestigious buildings in expensive locations, £2000.00 bottles of wine etc, Warren Buffet does not do it, and the fault for this is the company shareholders allow it to happen<br />The morons on the committee who cross examined Google have probably all been involved in tax avoidance, it's called 'duty free'did they insist on paying the extra, indeed demand that they pay the extra? What do you think?<br />The chair is also believing her own PR these days and the committee is now about her rottweiler tendencies now bordering on hysteria, it was her and her committee as MPs who formed the deficient laws in the first place which allowed the companies and individuals to avoid by using accountants and lawyers who have the brains to show the way where the MPs could not<br />As for immoral, how many people go to say Primark and insist on paying double for a garment because it's too cheap, unfortunately we now know why it's that price but.......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411161795798360588.post-90539167914193651512013-05-20T23:32:44.949+01:002013-05-20T23:32:44.949+01:00Beware- deflecting the blame onto the companies is...Beware- deflecting the blame onto the companies is the game here, so that the politicians don't have to take the difficult choices of actually annoying capitalism by doing something about it. So it becomes about being against Amazon or Starbucks rather than against neoliberalism and Government policy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com