Jimmy Carr

@panda12 wrote:

Only one thing for it – let’s eat the rich! :D

Jimmy Carrserole, anyone?

Washed down with a nice bottle of Chianti…….. :shock:

And some Sean Beans…

BBQued over some hot Cheryl Coles…

@rogue trader wrote:

my youngest son is the spit of jimmy carr? :-k

It’s ok. If it comes down to a positive ID the one that tells the crap joke will be eaten. Your son is safe.

:D

@wordsworth60 wrote:

Maybe we also need to change our attitude towards tax. Part of the resentment towards taxation comes from the partly-justified idea that rulers take tax from the rules to spend on golden castles, pomp and ego-enhancing standing armies.

Our modern welfare state delivers so much more yet we feel hard done by. I read somewhere that the happiest nations are the Scandinavian countries with their high tax/high care regimes. But rather than resent this, it seems the people feel ‘cared for’ (they have one word for it). Perhaps their famously parsimonious heads of state reflect this regard for the public good.

It might also explain why Cameron’s statement earlier this year that maybe we shouldn’t just measure economic success but happiness was such a one-off.

I agree – with the bit our attitude to tax of course, Cameron wanting to measure happiness is too much for me.

Tax is our money, spend on us, to allow our families and loved ones to receive healthcare (still cheap at half the price whatever they tell you) and all the other services of the state. Goods provided by the state are not an inferior form of economic activity – they’re a lot of the things that makes the biggest difference to our quality of life.

I’m proud and happy to pay tax and wouldn’t want to avoid it. The Scandinavian attitude where people really value what they receive (and apparently don’t try to avoid their tax that much) is far healthier than our dog eat dog approach to communal living.

Oh and most of Scandinavia is better off than the UK. So much for caring for people not being good business sense.