Cameron: "resist dangerous rhetoric suggesting business is inherently self-interested"

[SerialKipper]

Pardon?

And there was me thinking PLCs were legally required to maximise shareholder profit.

Turns out they really exist to tickle the chins of ickle fluffy kittens.

A link might help, I s'pose...

i heard this on the news this morn and properly SNORTED

Tbh, it's got to the point where Cameron could say "the sky is blue" and I would still feel like laughing bitterly, spitting in the dust and walk away safe in the knowledge that he is lying.

I can just see this as a slogan on a poster. A bit like this.

But is it a business goat, tethers?

I think the actual slogan translates as Let's all stand on our own two feet without paying tax. And raise goats. Or something.

"without paying tax" certainly a popular business slogan...

Even if you only read the average content of an MN thread about 'evil bankers' and 'fat cats' it's not hard to see that there is a lot of anti-business sentiment around. When the majority of people employed in the private sector, by definition, rely on businesses to be successful for a livelihood... and when most of us purchase goods and services from other businesses or sell to yet more businesses, it doesn't make sense to want them to fail or have their wings clipped.

This made me laugh this morning as well.

What an arse.

Was't it last week he was banging on about compassionate capitalism or something.

It's not snobbery which is prompting the attacks. Far from it. It's idiocy.

Right now what we need to see are UK businesses making even MORE money so they can employ MORE people and pay MORE taxes.

What we need to tackle tax avoidance and evasion is a simpler tax code and a fairer rate of tax. The more complex you make it, the easier it is for people & companies to avoid paying taxes. The higher you make it, the more you put off the very people who you need to be attracting to pay taxes.

Small businesses are vital to our economy. They employ literally millions and their ran by entrepreneurs who have often borrowed money using their own homes as collateral.

Large businesses are big employers whom give jobs to millions more people.

We should give our entrepreneurs the respect I think they deserve and not make them feel like cheaters and slave drivers.

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