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Here in the UK there is a big debate going on about Tax Avoidance (legal tax avoidance, or as we call it here at the Schloss Monte, common-fricking-sense). A popular comedian called Jimmy Carr has been found to put his money in something called K2, so he pays less tax than the guy who cleans his windows. Behold! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18531008 Now, personally, I will agree to paying more tax once governments stop wasting it on small wars, the feckless, EU subsidies and overseas aid programs for countries with nukes. If you can afford nukes you can afford very basic welfare provision. Until then, making your tax affairs efficient seems perfectly reasonable to me. But yet... even the Ayn Rand fanboi in me gets leery of paying less tax than the guy who cleans my windows. My heart is flinty but not *that* flinty. Which is why I support a modified flat tax that would lift low-earners out of tax *completely* and encourage the rich the pay more (rather than avoid). The rich in the UK pay a shed-load of tax. For the record, I am a middle-earner. I am not rich. But one day I'd like to be and the politics of envy is always the ugliest. But by the same token I don't want to pay less than a poor guy. So for this call sign, a flat tax = win. What do you guys think?
