As the 5th or 6th richest economy in the world
it is shameful that we resort to discussions around who should pay for care. As
far as I'm concerned, and I'm not alone here, care must be paid for through general taxation. Basically we need to create a national care service, a service
free at the point of need.
Cries of “this will bankrupt the country” will be
heard; “we just can’t afford this kind of burden with a growing elderly
population”. But then similar reactionary sentiments have been expressed prior
to the introduction of every progressive law and policy ever passed. The
political right, employers, politicians and scum newspapers decried the enacting
of the DDA, minimum wage, maternity leave, paternity leave, statutory holidays,
statutory sick pay, H&S in the workplace, etc.
Yet each of these policies came into practice and the
capitalist system continued its rapacious way through our society becoming more
and more bloated on the easy to gain profits successive governments afforded
them.
One solution to the crisis in care would be a dogged
pursuit of the masses of tax cheats residing in the UK. You know them as the
wealthy, those with a such an inflated sense of entitlement that excuses them
from such tiresome duties as paying their way.
The government could seriously look into closing all
tax loops. Indeed, it would pay them to open a department of HMRC employing top
forensic and corporate lawyers and accountants to close down new loops that
arise. HMRC could re-employ all those tax officers they made redundant, who in
turn could claw in taxes from tax cheats.
The rabid scum press should divert their editorial
bile in the direction of tax cheats. Cheats who cost the country scores of
billions annually. Vilify tax cheats rather than the easy and lazy promotion of
poverty porn. Wouldn’t it make economic sense to go after scores of billions of
unpaid taxes instead of devoting millions in the pursuit of a couple of billion
lost in benefits? Scum press... sell that to your readers.
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