[Grosz- Pillars of Society]Here's a story about what "charity" and "community" mean to rich people.
You know how rich folks have been using shell companies in offshore tax havens, so that they don't pay taxes, right? Well, they're even worse when they do open their web-infested wallets.
You gotta tease the money out.
As Wanda Sykes said, when they give money, it's not the generosity that matters to rich folks, it's about the opportunity to dress up and look rich, and perhaps to be publicly announced as "mister rich guy". i.e. vanity.
When the ticket is a 5000 euro/dollar/pound donation, you know that you're in rich company. No need to say anything. Just smile for the cameras!
So, I've got an idea for how to get rich folks to pay some taxes.
Throw a televised
black-tie tax donation party!
They get to act up and feel important, and we get a sleezy pseudo-documentary in a Big-Brother stylie, because many of us are low-brow, immoral butt-sniffers and generally jealous sh*ts. Otherwise Big Brother and the tabloids wouldn't exist. Maybe we aren't so back. You know? I'm wondering whether the media are trying to make us all low-brow by presenting BBro in news reports. A bit of tit, a bit of scandal, a bit of pathos. maybe it's all scripted. how's that done, you ask?
If I were to receive the contract for making the script for the donation party,
this is how it would be done.
Read on:
Master of Ceremonies: Hey, everybody. Coming in now is Bob Coal. He owes, morally-speaking, a wack of money in taxes that he's managed to avoid through his coal mining business, offshore shell companies and kickbacks to politicians. We're talking a buck-twenty five. That's 1.25 billion to you and me. He's donating most of that today, or so he says.
(audience cheers)
(Coal smiles,a bit)
MC: That's him there in the new Armani suit and his wife, errr fiance, errrr arm candy, stepping out of their limo, in the new Versace with tear away velcro, for later on. oooh!
Audience: ooooh!
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Or, you could fight for fairness in taxation. I know. Nobody's listening. Politics is a fix.
-Cos67 8^P
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