Imagine a rent-a-crowd protestor outside a supermarket with this on his placard:
We demand to pay more for our staple dietary requirements. Raise your prices!
I
think we are agreed that would be mind-numbingly stupid. However, that’s what 'ethical consumers' are protesting for in their planned boycott of Amazon, Google,
Starbucks, et al. Tax is a cost to business: a protest to raise taxes paid, is a protest to raise the price a consumer pays.
I
put it to you the ‘Ethical Consumer’ is not so much ethical, as just plain bat-shit
stupid, and for some reason during a recession has decided to declare war on the struggling consumer. Socialism … it’s really
silly, and it’s hurting good, honest working people. If you want to even the playing field for local small and medium sized businesses, lower their tax rates to what the Googles' of the world are paying here: then we would all benefit. But for that to happen, irresponsible governments which spend like free men can't, need to get their spending under control (or even stop borrowing would be a start).
War
is Peace
Freedom
is Slavery
Fairness
is Higher Prices.
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