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I think you've missed what I'm saying. I mean there's literally no point because there's no actual financial benefit to anybody.
Why not all dodge paying income tax or VAT, I'll have some of that please.
I think you've missed what I'm saying. I mean there's literally no point because there's no actual financial benefit to anybody.
Sure, just earn over a couple of million and get a good accountant.Why not all dodge paying income tax or VAT, I'll have some of that please.
Sure, just earn over a couple of million.
Why not all dodge paying income tax or VAT, I'll have some of that please.
Do you know what cash in hand means?
If I have to spend money investigating the benefits cheats or the tax evaders, which is going to be more worthwhile?
But Benefits thieves get the modern equivalent of being put in the stocks. Called scum by newspapers, paraded in TV programmes as examples of broken Britain.
Are you seriously conflating benefit cheats with rapists?Press publicity of a court case, and the resulting shame, has long been officially accepted as part of the process.
Practically, this applies more to less serious offenders in the magistrates' courts.
The bloke who has just been given 10 years for rape has more to worry about than whether the pic in the paper has caught his good side.
See my response above
Are you seriously conflating benefit cheats with rapists?
Ah, Ok. It was the point you missed. It has nothing to do with the court appearance or whatever. It has to do with the hatred stirred up by papers like the Daily Fail and your beloved Sun. They are the ones that perpetrate the "all doleys are drug addicted scum that beat their partners" message and fail to realise the damage that they do.Oh dear, I thought it understandable.
The shame of a public court appearance is acknowledged as being part of the process.
But, practically, anyone given years in prison is going to worry a lot less about a newspaper story than the fined shoplifter who has to face the neighbours.
It has to do with the hatred stirred up by papers like the Daily Fail and your beloved Sun. They are the ones that perpetrate the "all doleys are drug addicted scum that beat their partners" message and fail to realise the damage that they do.
There's little direct financial benefit to anybody in prosecuting most crime, but that doesn't mean the exercise is not worthwhile and important.
Benefits thieves are routinely ordered to repay the amount they stole, but being potless that can only be done via a deduction from, you've guessed it, benefits.
Five pounds a week is the usual sum ordered, which means most of the fraudsters will be 'repaying' what they stole for years, if not decades.
You might think differently if you knew someone who had become addicted to drugs or alcohol.You might think differently if your house is clumsily burgled or someone nicks your daughter's iPhone to raise money for drugs.
Yes it is possible to be averse to both, but only one is worth pursuing to any degree. The other is better dealt with through education, mental health outreach and support.
That was an anodyne non response that ignores the fact that limited resources should be used to get the best returns, and that it suits this government's agenda to concentrate on the ones that make the best Daily Mail headlines.
Are you by chance a bean counter?