{"id":918,"date":"2007-01-24T10:17:30","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T10:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/24\/throwing-ones-toys-out-of-the-pram\/"},"modified":"2007-01-24T10:19:57","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T10:19:57","slug":"throwing-ones-toys-out-of-the-pram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/24\/throwing-ones-toys-out-of-the-pram\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwing one’s toys out of the pram"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s imagine I ran a successful business and employed fifty people around the country as part of my empire. I’ve got a good turnover, making a nice profit, and helping the economy.<\/p>\n

Then I decide that I don’t want to pay corporation tax – I decide it’s ethically wrong to take away money that I could reinvest in my company (and thereby the economy) in order to fund (let’s say) a war in a Middle Eastern country.<\/p>\n

I say to the Government: “Either you abandon your attempts to charge me corporation tax or I shall close my company down in defiance, laying off all those staff, and then you’ll get no corporation tax from me at all. Ha!”<\/p>\n

We can be fairly sure (assuming I’ve not given money to the Labour Party) that the reply from the Government will be along the lines of: “Tough.”<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t it?<\/a><\/p>\n

In entirely unrelated news, everyone’s favourite elephant has some thoughts about adoption<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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