Lawmakers: Cynical, Dumb or Lazy?
Do you curse our politicians for not having the will to frame laws to prevent and handle rape cases? Call me cynical, but at least that can be understood: our politicians know it’s a slippery slope. Make the system work against rape, and who knows? Maybe the system will start working against corruption next. Why risk all that? But that can’t be why the UK government is huffing and puffing against Google, Starbucks and Amazon. The Brits feel that those companies pay very little tax in the UK even though they make a considerable sum there. The best part? None of this is illegal; these companies just use (perfectly legal) ways to minimize taxes. And so the Brit government has gone crazy: they are demanding that such corporations pay more taxes than they are legally obligated to! Because that would be the “moral” thing to do! That is dumb at so many levels: - Firstly, taxes are legal obligations (on all of us, not just corporations), not moral obligations. -