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Gary -
Responses to some of your points below from #50 - some matters are just differences in our attitudes and I am not bothering to follow up on those but others do need a comment.
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Life would be so boring if we all adopted your idea of what life should be all about. Thankfully the human race is varied and different.
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There you go with your insults again. My life or what I do in my life, is far from boring.
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How you can interpret that as an insult is astonishing and perhaps you should look to why you seem so excessively touchy. Is it the kind of problem we see from some others, one of comprehension? Read it carefully and consider exactly how that is worded. There is absolutely no insult to anyone there.
This perhaps explains a lot about you and your reactions. I have often been totally mystified by some of what you have said and the way you have responded to me. I have taken it as a defensive emotional reaction because you have not had the words or facts to provide a reasoned reply. This strange comment suggests more than that.
Then there is this:
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I will tell you something else. It is no business of yours, or indeed mine, what other people are paid unless we are paying the bill through our taxes or as business owners.
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I assume you are referring to the fact that I am on benefits and not paying income tax. If so, are you saying I should have no say in matters that affect my family?
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Again a very strange interpretation. I have no knowledge of your circumstances and certainly was not directed at you and was a general point. The level of benefits and tax are a matter of public policy along with public sector wages on which we all have a right to involve ourselves in but what a private or publicly owned business pays anyone is a matter for the owners of that business.
Now this and you need to be careful here as you are running very close to the wind.
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Define fraud - obtaining goods or services through deceit. It is a matter of the law. I have never condoned law breaking.
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Not you personally but your occupation is full of double standards and is entwined with deceit. When funds have been set aside in some fund or other, in the name of siblings and then those siblings do receive those funds, then that is deceit and probably against the law. That and other types of tax evasion are, in my opinion, just as corrupt as benefit fraud and probably more widespread.
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From that I can only judge that you know nothing at all about my occupation. If you are suggesting that my profession is involved in illegal tax evasion then you must provide proof or apologise. Tax avoidance is legal and I and my profession most certainly do advise clients on avoiding tax as I actually have a duty of care to do so and would fall foul of my regulator if I did not do so.
There are problems with my profession - pension and endowment mis-selling to name two historical issues but some of us have moved on from that and changed our business models to fee based because of this and the rest of the profession are being forced to follow us by the end of this year. I am happy to discuss where it has gone wrong but you are so wide of the mark in your comments it is laughable.
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Gary - business investing abroad, as indeed individuals, form part of the UK overseas earnings and is essential to our economy. Think how often we complain about UK businesses being bought by foreign companies. The good news is that this is a two way street. You cannot have it both ways, think foreign companies buy our is bad and complain about ours buying overseas, unless you think the UK should do business in some kind of bubble away from the world. That would be a disaster for a trading nation.
Besides this is not what I was actually referring to, I was referring to cash reserves and cash based investments not equity assets. This is money held back pending investment which may be in the UK or abroad when it happens or to provide a cushion if needed.