Posted on 02/17/2019 6:22:29 PM PST by tcrlaf
Britain’s richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe (worth £21 billion) is leaving the United Kingdom and the European Union for tax exile in Monaco, depriving the Treasury of up to £4 billion in tax. This is more tax than the entire bottom 40 percent of the British population pay: that’s because none of them pays any tax at all.
To understand why Ratcliffe is leaving, you need only glance at the reaction on social media.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Entrepreneurs are there to do business, create value and be rewarded for their efforts. It’s amazing, not to say astonishingly depressing, how many people there are in Britain right now – including many if not most politicians – who do not get this."
“You’re rich? You resorted to trickery..! You STOLE the money away from the rest of us..!”
I’d say that could really get old.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe Shrugged.
Smart end rich.
Just bought “Atlas Shrugged” this weekend and got “1984”, “Anthem”, and “The Road to Serfdom” out of the basement.
Planning on a busy week.
He’s going Galt? Good for him.
what happened to the headline?
I saw an interview with DJT quite a while before he came down that escalator. In it he warned that “the rich are international.” They have homes all over the world. If the tax burden gets too great, they will just move.
“Brother, you asked for it!” Francisco d’Anconia
Same reason John Lennon left.
Don’t forget to get a copy of “Brave New World” to add to the Dystopia book collection ;n)
If I was in his shoes, I would kiss the UK goodbye too.
And Bono for Ireland.
Add: The Incredible Bread Machine, The Law, The Seen and Unseen, Economics in One Lesson. Easy reads and impactful.
He likes my tagline.
I would also recommend the russian scifi dystopian novel “We”. Believe authors last name is Zemyata.
Britain is dead.
England should have listened to Thatcher, when she said that even the poor should pay at least a token tax, to give them a sense of skin in the game instead of just feeders from the trough.
My daughter loaned it to me. I have not read it yet.
Guess I had better get on the ball.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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