Post #684128
2026-03-17 00:16 UTC
When Reform deputy leader Richard Tice asks "How many friends and family do you have who voluntarily choose to pay more tax than they are legally obliged to do ...?" the answer is "almost all of them".
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/16/britons-should-strive-to-pay-minimum-tax-legally-possible-richard-tice-reform
Maybe not by much! But we understand that taxes are there so we can all get decent public services, and constantly being a rules lawyer over taxes is a dick move. So unless something looks really off, we pay our fucking taxes.
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@skington@glasgow.social 2026-03-17 00:18
Also: for years, I used to pay the TV licence fee, even though I didn't have a TV, because I thought the BBC was worth having. I'll grant you that that's weird, but I'd say no weirder than aggressively seeking out obscure tax avoidance schemes like the sorts Richard Tice likes.
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@GyrosGeier@hachyderm.io 2026-03-17 16:04
@skington@glasgow.social @cstross@wandering.shop also, individual action can never correct a systemic problem, only reduce the pressure to fix it.
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@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange 2026-03-17 16:28
@skington@glasgow.social @cstross@wandering.shop A U.S. Supreme Court justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes, once wrote in an opinion, “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.”