Lilyflower
Most of the shareholders of large companies are investment bodies like pension funds rather than individuals with gold plated Rolls Royces. My DH was a pension trustee and said most people don't know it but the money goes to ordinary individuals in the long run through pension providers paying out to their members.
Additionally, much profit is needed for research, exploration and development. We urgently need power and fuel companies to be exploring new gas fields and technologies to replace power sources coming offline and that is exactly what companies do with much of their money.
Furthermore, wealthy individuals spend their (taxed) income which goes into the economy, funds jobs and is taxed again through VAT.
Do we want to live in Marxist style authoritarian regimes where we are assigned a bleak government flat where it chooses to place us and have to wait ten years for a clapped out car? The price of not living like slaves is that successful companies share their wealth.
Are you for real?! If you think that very wealthy people spend their money and pay taxes in UK you're more ignorant than you even sound ? my BiL a very very wealthy Saudi national, stashes his dosh in Switzerland and has his domicile in Saudi even though he spends most time in UK and USA.only time he spends in UK is to buy furnishings for his homes here and they're also sourced mostly in Europe so not actually made here! He earns A LOT of his dosh in UK but wouldn't pay by our taxes if his life depended on it! You're s naïve.
And your Karl Marx vision of the alternative, ? I can only assume you're poorly educated and never worked with ordinary People who vote labour or lib dem? Shame really, you sound as if your life has been a wasted ticket, brainwashed by trying to climb the 'social ladder ' real people do real jobs and expect to be remunerated accordingly without a fist fight at every anniversary!! I'm assuming you can look up what " remunerated" means?
