Yes, multi-nationals should pay their due.
As for pensioners £141.85 a week isn't a lot to start with and is a bit ironic to penalise them when they often did the low-paid jobs you're trying to help.

Fair dues Teddy- you know my pensioners bit wasn"t serious- i was just slipping that in to a comment you made yesterday, saying that, it might be an idea!

Anyway- i"m losing interest in sticking up for less fortunates- lots don"t vote and are couch potatoes, no point keep stressing on here talking to opposite opinions, you get nowhere and what does it achieve? I will try and only post when I see a real clanger or lawbreaking by the government in charge, or a real piss take- like going over 2x salary for bankers bonus!

That's same as everywhere else in the world except the United States of Europe.

It is still strange the left have taken the word " bankers " and redefined it as some kind of demonic anti-Christ.

There's a banker, cross yourself and get the pitchforks.

Personally I think for example sports people and celebs are less deserving.

Whilst we live in a society where investment constantly is needed to promote growth we need some kind of system, i.e banks to channel that.

When the global population is one billion we can all live in some kind of Utopia where we can sit around discussing methods of growing our food in a non plant hurting way and weaving non dairy yoghurt ( tips hat to Alexi Sayle )

Edited by HKOwen (18 Sep 2022 12.10am)

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

You are such a tease CP we know you don't mean it.

One more point

The Resolution Foundation said wealth had increased during lockdown as a result of a lack of spending opportunities and rising house prices, but the benefits had been skewed to the richest by a ratio of more than 500 to 1.

Jack Leslie, a senior economist at the thinktank, said it was rare for wealth to increase during a recession but the impact of events during 2020 and 2021 had been to “turbo-charge” the gap between rich and poor.

So that’s all good then. No need for any rebalancing as the rich are doing so much for the rest of us

In 2015-16 the average rate of tax paid by people who received one million pounds in taxable income and gains was just 35 per cent: the same as someone earning £100,000. But one in four of these paid 45 per cent – close to the top rate – whilst another quarter paid less than 30 per cent overall. One in ten paid just 11 per cent—the same as someone earning £15,000. The rich, it seems, are not all in it together.

These low rates are not driven by complex tax avoidance schemes; they’re part of how our system is designed. Where you get your money from (or at least how you package it) matters, because investment income and capital gains are taxed at lower rates than income from work. What’s more, as the National Audit Office recently highlighted, the government offers tax reliefs claimed to incentivise activities like entrepreneurship, without actually checking whether they achieve these aims.

Quoted from London school of economics