Everyday Brits are in Revolt of Wealthy Tax Cheats ..Why Can't We ...?!

Remember what Bob Dylan said "steal a little and they throw you in jail steal a lot and they make you king"...

"I don't mind the rich getting richer, but don't leave the rest of us behind"

Even though we are one of the most intelligent countries, we are still divided and only care for what happens to us today.

The US is divided and unless people decide to take a stand, this will continue and affect our kids and their kids in the years to come.

A lot of us don't hate the rich, we just hate that they make the laws that are beneficial to them first and forget about the ones who put them there! We hate when they pay little or no taxes and then whine that this nation is full of freeloaders and people who don't work! There are no jobs because they made laws favorable with tax breaks and incentives to ship whole American factories to China and India. Millions are unemployed because their jobs were outsourced and these corporations headed by the rich, were given billions in corporate welfare and in return for these bailouts they fail to pay their fair share of taxes! They failed the American people and the American Worker in order to line their pockets on the backs of the American Taxpayer and Worker! There was a solar company in Massachusetts that got State and Federal stimulus money to expand, they succeeded, and in return for these grants and stimulus moved the company to China!

You got that right, wall street gets rewarded and the rest of us get screwed. This is nothing new, Not to long ago we had the S&L BAILOUT. In the US the corp. call the shorts and for the last forty years they have been outsourceing america to the point there's nothing left. There was a time when PROFITS weren't the only thing, now it's EVERYTHING.The AMERICAN WORKER made these companys yet when they seen they could make an extra nickel on the dollar they packed their bags for the next flight out to a destination where people were use to working for a dollar a day. When the US GOVERNMENT conducted hearings on UN-AMERICAN-ACTIVITIES corporate america should have been included. They were more of a threat to our way of life then anything else I can think of.

We should take gun donations and hand them to the homeless. Then law makers might remember them.

Simple reason is that Britts have balls and American just pretend to.

Thanks for the info. I have been waiting for a spark to unite over here as if we do not unite, no progress will be made. We have many homeless, jobless, and frightened old people over here. We seem to be in suspended animation, waiting for the next shoe to fall. I keep thinking a new leader will emerge, but fight a hopeless feeling everyday. Our society seems too fractured, but surely one day we will say "that is enough-we can not take anymore". Perhaps in the spring.MJS

While Egypt may seem very distant, in many ways, Aunt Britain is palpably close, in many ways. Do we need to see corporate tax returns to know that, not only are corporations loopholing their way out of paying taxes, but we, the public, are rewarding their evasions with further subsidies of our tax dollars! Even now, the IRS is offering tax evasion amnesty with modest requirements. Could it not be more financially sensible to put more people to work ferreting out corporate and private individual tax evaders, offsetting the employment costs with the extra tax monies collected? Is it merely that Obama doesn't want to ruffle business and far right feathers that this issue isn't pursued more assiduously? Will U.S. citizens march in the streets demanding fair and equal application of tax law?

It amazes me that Americans that call themselves Christians and would not think twice about stealing a loaf of bread to feed their child have no problem whatsoever with defrauding the US government out of 10s or even 100s of thousands of dollars. I think its pretty sad that Republicans attack everyday people that are unemployed due to no fault of their own as lazy and muchers. to me the wealthy people that evade paying their fair share are the real muchers. I think its about time we average people hold them to account.

The reason the Brits can march is because they can still see/check the tax information on any company. This allows them to see who is and who isn't paying their fair chair... We on the other hand, thanks to the Citizen United ruling by the activist judges, can not see what a company pays in taxes. We can not see this because they are now considered "to have person hood" and are allowed the ability to have their taxes remain private. What we must do is infiltrate our own Democratic Party and start running for any position available which in turn opens up doors to a future "real" Democratic candidate. We need to change LAWS not attitudes, opinions, anger levels.. What the corporations are doing is what the LAWS that were changed allow them to do. 30 years of Reganomics and Clintonomics are coming home. GET INVOLVED

Can't wait to see al the liberals marching on washington.

When is this protest going to happen?

Or are you all just a bunch of hypocrites?

Deep inside most Americans resides a secret longing that they too will one day become rich. It's hard to protest against what most Americans now consider the "American Dream" : Get rich, Die trying and taxes are only oppressive when the rich have to pay them.

We can do this too, B of A, Citigroup, Wellsfargo, and Goldman Sachs collectively owe us more than a trillion dollars. We don't have a deficit, they do and its long past time that they paid up.

The same thing is happening here in America! The conservative right wants to cut spending at the expense of lower income and the middle class in order to give the rich tax cuts! This country needs a similar movement, let's call it the Coffee Movement, it's time for everyday Americans to wake up and smell the coffee! It's time the ruling elite and the right "To Smell The Coffee!"

But you will not hear Anything about this in the American Corporate Controlled Media! If they allowed people in America to hear about this they are Afraid that it might happen here. I can hear it now:
Reporter at News Channel to Editor; "There is a Situation in Great Britain with protests against the Rich and Mega-Corps that is shutting down businesses."
Editor to Reporter; "We have other more important news to report like the latest American Idol results. Go interview Sarah Palin or a Tea Party Supporter and come back with a Real story."

This is what we get when we keep cutting Education.

The reason we cannot go after rich tax cheats here in the US, is quite simple, we do not live in a democracy, but a plutocracy, and since true democratic action is the antithesis of plutocracy, our politicians in Washington, who are owned and controlled by corporate fundamentalist interest, would not allow it, since thievery is in their best interest.

remember remember, the 5th of November....

As a Vet, I see how "Cowardly" the Average American is.
1. They do NOT want to see what is right in front of them in plain sight.
2. They do NOT stand up for their rights unless they are "Guaranteed" to not suffer anything for standing up.
3. They will wait until they are out of work for a year, stone broke, and on the streets before they want to do anything about it, but then they have no transportation to a rally or communication to be informed of one.

What cowards we Americans Are.

Just WHEN will we get angry enough to act? I posted this to FB yesterday...not a single PEEP. But mention S P (the female from up North) everyone has a say pro and con.

Perhaps it is time to stop talking and start marching. Our voices are drowned out by the insanity of the tea party and the gross beast called politics. It is time for the earth to shake, it is time for Washington to tremble. The time has come people of America to remind our government, we are dangerous, and our patience wears thin.

America is all talk and forums on the internet. Maybe if there was more physical human interaction.

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We could, but since most of them are in Obama's cabinent and The United States Congress, we probably wouldn't get very far with it.

The first thing the Devil did was make us think we needed the latest useless stuff.

So when an individual does it, it's tax evasion, theft, or larceny. When a corporation does it, it's called "investment" and the government cuts them deals. Why can't they cut us deals. What if I don't feel like paying all of my taxes? Can I do that?

LOL - Tax the rich...LMAO.
Yeah right. Americans don't want that, they want more taxes for the lower and middle class, less for the rich. Why else would they vote in more Republicans in the last election?

Republicans want to cut services to the middle class & poor.....I mean cut SPENDING.
They want corporations to pollute the environment, make cheap toxic goods, and not suffer any consequences....I mean stop government REGULATION.
They also want to companies to charge you for everything you need, like basic education, social security, health care....I mean they want to PRIVATIZE more, and SPEND less.
But we must keep spending on our military, which the US spends more than ever nation on the planet combined. When it comes to military spending, the US spends more than 50% of what the entire world spends on military.....I mean we need STRONGER NATIONAL SECURITY.
Of course you can't tax the rich, because then their money won't trickle down to create more jobs....in places like Mexico, China, and India. ....I mean AMERICAN JOBS are Priority #1.

Now, we had a fiscal conservative from 2000-2008, and in 2008 we began to see the results of lack of regulation, lack of fiscal responsibility, increased military spending, cuts in education, and no focus on job creation. 3 years later, we still standing in the same pool of shit.
On top of that, we have a president who's given us tax cuts unseen since the 1950's. We are paying historical lows in taxes, and our deficit climbs....but no one wants to tax these bankers.
---WTF is wrong with these idiots?

YES ! well done !

So brits are smarter than americans shoulda known. We don't do shit over here, cause people are too god damn stupid to even know what hitem...

Having had foreign exchange students from Europe for a few years has truly confirmed what I had suspected for years, that being, that certainly one of the largest contributors to our political woes here is that we have such a poorly educated citizenry. When half the nation bases it's opinions on the clearly orchestrated propaganda from the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck and their associates at Fox news the results are just what we have, middle class people voting against their own interests and aligning themselves with the very institutions that are stripping them of the hard fought for gains that were achieved since the New Deal. The Republican party has made it no secret that they wish to undo every gain made by the working class in terms of wages, benefits and safety networks. They openly disparage Social security, the ongoing attempt to suffocate universal health care before it takes root, the war on collective bargaining through labor unions that was exemplified by Reagan firing all the air traffic controllers...the bank bailouts, the Wall Street apologists, the list could go on and on. They have bought virtually the entire network of electronic and printed news media and played us like a piano at Carnegie Hall...they tell us to disregard mainstream media as too left wing and then advance their agenda through Fox etc..that is brilliant, in doing so they pit us against each other...by being in control of both ends of the news spectrum they carefully orchestrate and actually achieve their desired ends...they split us up into two bitterly opposed camps, sit back AND LET US TEAR EACH OTHER TO SHREDS.
Now stop and think about this for a minute on this very site I see from any number of people on ranting about the evils of Unions...really? I mean really? What is so outrageous about a decent living wage, providing health insurance benefits and a retirement that is nothing more than the workers getting back some of the incredible profits that American labor has produced? Nobody disputes the fact that the United States' economy dwarfs every other nation on this planet, and yes that includes China...so why shouldn't the people who do the heavy lifting get a slice of the pie that they baked?
When the fact that CEO's get paid millions a year in salary and even more millions in annual bonuses gets little more than a shrug of the shoulders and yet if an auto assembler gets a 50 cent an hour raise you'd think that they had just raped a baby.
You want change, then refuse to let the men on high holding the strings dance you around!! Stop bashing the efforts of our Presidents attempt to level the playing field and get off the damned corporate plantation..the Massa ain't good to you..he's pitting us against one another and reaping the benefits!!
Educate yourselves and your children , open your eyes and like Micheal Buffer says " Let's get ready to rummmbbblle!!!"

"The new Conservative-led government in Britain is imposing the most extreme cuts to public spending the country has seen since the 1920s."

It never, never, ceases to amaze me that people will vote conservatives into office actually believing that conservatives will balance budgets and support the middle and lower classes by raising taxes on the rich. Then the first thing the new government does is start cutting programs they need to survive because they don't want to tax the wealthy. Talk about a self-inflicted wound!

Still, I suspect that we'll be seeing the same thing here shortly. Most folks are still too focused on FOX Misinformation Network or American Idol to recognize they are being fleeced. But the day will come when even those losers wake up and wonder how it all went so wrong. When that day comes, and it will, things are going to get very ugly, very fast.

The brits have the BBC as their main news source, that's why. With our corporate-controled news-media and the end of the fairness doctrine with corporations now having the rights of individuals and corporate money pouring in from god-knows-where there's little hope that change will come here until some sort of huge social upheaval here. Wish I was wrong, but I think we have to face the facts that the vast majority of the American people are going to be manipulated with lies and misinfomation for years to come.

Because it's easier to come here and scream and shout, than to stand up and do something about it. If you look at the top 5 stories here, you'll see 90 to 100+ comments... this one, has 8...

I've said it before, stop screaming and shouting, unless you're going to do something, like the tea party.

We in the United States have become docile lap dogs of the corporate elites, while the Brits try to fight for their rights.

Sad have we are so controlled by the corporate media that when they tell us to roll over, we do it.

Yep, yes indeed the same tired old Military industrial complex screwing us all!

The US will soon follow the UK's lead on budget reform and then we will both be in the same boat. The question how long do we have before our government takes similar actions?

Excellent.

remember Vodaphone sent pro-mubarak messages out in egypt great co.

oh well this 'll have to do tired go to site to see intended pic thanks

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