[jfman]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

We rely on businessmen to bring money into the country. If you want to tax them until the pips squeak, they will simply move elsewhere. This is something socialists simply don't want to address. It's the politics of jealousy promoted by those without a clue.

You’re making the false assumption that everyone can just up sticks, move somewhere else and make similar income/profits doing equivalent roles elsewhere. That’s very unlikely to be true for the vast majority of “businessmen”.

You’ve also personalised it, ignoring the big global companies who make huge profits from UK consumers and pay minimal tax here.

Well, that was the implication as I read it. OK, I'll humour you. What did you really mean to imply, then?

It’s not my obligation to explain my posts in greater detail because you fail to understand them.

As for WTO rules, they are clearly liberating compared with EU legislation.

So liberating very few countries trade on those terms.