“transcripts of investor and analyst calls over 12 years show Starbucks officials regularly talked about the UK business as “profitable”, said they were very pleased with it, or even cited it as an example to follow for operations back home in the United States.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/15/us-britain-starbucks-tax-idUSBRE89E0EX20121015

They may have been honest to the UK taxman by legally reporting profit overseas, but then they were dishonest elsewhere. Ooops.

Media dishonesty about the EU tax laws is widespread, all complaining about Starbucks, Google, Amazon as if they are they problem, instead of good, honest companies that sell their wares as efficiently as possible and deliver a great service to millions of customers.

EU laws and the UK membership of the EU is the problem, nothing else.

This article entrenches the dishonesty, I expected more from Libertarian Home!

It is not true that everyone would benefit from a flat tax (a one page tax code), the whole “tax industry” would lose.

And, of course, that complex “Progressive” tax code is one of the things that helps the special interests that “Progressives” say they oppose.

What you say he confirms my opinion. Someone who thinks that any property not gained by “labour” is a “government privilege”, and uses terms like “idle capital”, is no friend of libertarians.

http://www.spunk.org/texts/misc/sp000050.txt

Bullying companies to pay more will never make up the difference for out-of-control government spending. Our ancestors for the most part took care of themselves and it would do society as a whole much good if we emulated that instead of institutionalized welfare systems. “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have…”