"The government is encouraging boycotts of Amazon, Google and Starbucks"
Why dont they "fix" the rules/laws? If the current systems allows people to avoid taxes, fix it. I am sure is not only Google, Amazon.... I may not understand Brits, but if you choose a Chancellor who is a tax evader himself (or at least someone who is skilful finding loopholes), what do you expect? On 13 November 2012 14:57, Ricky Clarkson <ricky.clark...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just listened to the Jeremy Vine spot on BBC Radio 2 where they > discussed this. The government is encouraging boycotts of Amazon, Google > and Starbucks and I don't believe they are pursuing any legal action. I > think that's reasonable, although I'm not going to partake in a boycott as > I would do the same if I was Google (plus, I'm not in the UK anymore so I > only have Starbucks and Google to boycott). The government should be > giving tax breaks to at least Google and Amazon (especially if they start > creating jobs somewhere other than London). > > Corporates are composed of human beings, and those human beings do have > morals, so I don't see why you wouldn't expect a corporation to behave like > the human beings it's composed of (or at least like its finance > department!). > > > > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Fabrizio Giudici < > fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > >> On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:03:31 +0100, rakesh mailgroups < >> rakesh.mailgro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> "We're not accusing you of being illegal, we're accusing you of being >>> immoral." >>> >>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/**business-20288077<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20288077> >>> >> >> Putting together "moral" or "immoral" and "corporate" is a stupid thing, >> IMO. Moral is a category for physical human beings, not corporates. Since >> some corporates do use the "good" / "evil" categories, they can rather be >> blamed of being hypocrite. >> >> >> -- >> Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect @ Tidalwave s.a.s. >> "We make Java work. Everywhere." >> http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/**blog <http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/blog>- >> fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscribe@** >> googlegroups.com <javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** >> group/javaposse?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en>. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
