Like the sun
Ushering in the new dawn
From a dark time
Tentatively breaking the darkness
So too, do we enter
A time of renewed hope
This dawn reminds us
That we are
All one.
to pay or not to pay…
I find myself in a bit of a dilemma.
Did you hear the news that certain large retailing chains are using “legal’ and sophisticated accounting routes around paying what could be deemed as their fair share of tax in this country. The likes of Starbucks and Amazon spring to mind.
I have listened to couple of arguments on this and the pro-tax dodge folk seem to say something along the lines of ‘it is legal, its the governments fault for allowing the loop holes to exist’
hmmm… so they are not breaking the law, no they are working inside the law but does that make it okay?
Its like when kids try and walk UP the slide. It might be the quickest route to the top but the fair and proper route is the steps. I guess the folk that have made Starbucks and Amazon the mega retailers have not done it by going up the steps. 😉
My dilemma now is whether or not i give any of my TAXED income to their tills. In the case of Starbucks it wont be hard to resist. Im not a big coffee shop type person…well unless i am ‘sans enfants’..which is um….never. Also, incredibly, where i live there isnt a Starbucks on every. single. street. Costa sort of rules the roost over this way..i wonder if they pay their taxes? 🙂
But Amazon? That is going to be harder. Its just so easy and their delivery options are generally pretty reliable…yadda yadda..BUT I sort of feel like if a company is going to be part of  a society then they should contribute to that society.
Just sort of makes sense to me.
Anybody else?
Alderley Edge – Country kids..
That should read POSH country kids i think. We haven’t been to Alderley Edge before, despite it being fairly near where we live but we ventured to the national trust property there and discovered on the way there the largest collection of cars individually worth more than our house! Holy high insurance premiums batman!
Anyway despite trying to spot football players, apparently a lot of them live there. I would have a clue tbh….they could walk right up to me and id not have the foggiest idea…
BUT! The walks around Alderley Edge were lovely and autumnal but VERY busy..so many people…i guess sunny day at the weekend and everyone is savouring it, can’t say i blame them.
Of course i took my camera..and i used my macro lens which presented a little bit of a problem for those ‘panoramic’ landscape shots…but hey ho..i think the light was lovely at times…
oh and apologies for the “movember’ I have absolutely nothing to do with that 😉
#silentsunday
#satcap day… huzzah!
Its a sleepy saturday caption day for me at least it will be as I am working friday night so will be fairly smushed tomorrow…here it is.
