Multinational"
We don't pay taxes. Only little people pay taxes,"
Leona Helmsley was quoted as saying prior to being investigated for tax evasion for which she subsequently served 19 months in prison after receiving an initial sentence of 16 years. Money buys lots of friends.
So perhaps the Directors of the Multinational Companies that now play monopoly with the lives of their employees by shifting work from Country to Country to either avoid having to implement pollution control or more usually to create more profits should remember her fate. They may not be so lucky and have to serve the entire 16 years.
“This freedom of movement by multinationals tends to penalize governments which seek to maintain standards of social welfare, environmental regulation or tax regimes [...], many of the measures which governments have used in the past to develop a coherent industrial policy for their country are no longer possible”
So how did we on this blog arrive at Multinational City? Well I was reading an article over
on the Telegraph on how
Gordon Brown is hoping, that despite a recent poll by
YouGov, 94% believe that the Government does not keep its promises.
The writer of the article goes on to say that the unelected Brown Clown is calculating that although people want a referendum on Europe and are angry that the Government has broken its promise to hold one, ultimately people do not care enough to do anything about it. Prove him wrong and go
here.
All done? Good. Now back to the multinationals. The article had buried within it this little gem:
The Court of Justice has shocked trade union members with two rulings allowing wages to be dramatically undercut and cost the Treasury billions by allowing multinational companies to avoid corporation tax.
And quite right to. After all. "
Only little people pay tax". For now. If you are a True Brit and wish to keep your job and get justice for those who have been cast aside by the large so called British Companies moving overseas, then you need to support or join the
British National Party now. There are not that many tomorrows left.