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Bono's arrogance reaches new levels

category national | miscellaneous | opinion/analysis author Wednesday June 26, 2013 19:45author by ordinary citizen Report this post to the editors

U2 pay your tax fb page

Bonos arrogance has touched a nerve with ordinary people struggling to get by

Bonos complete removal from the lives of ordinary citizens came across in his interview with Gay Byrne. Its the trillions being held in offshore tax havens that have created much unnecessary poverty, especially in First World countries, which should all be living the Scandinavian dream of equality, a massive middle class and v high standards in all state bodies. Instead we have the super rich getting to a level of wealth and then reaching a point where they can claim to be based abroad for tax reason and pay even less than the average person when they should be paying twice what a person who can barely feed their family is. His arrogance is infuriating and i would love to have a protest outside his house in Dalkey sometime, to bring the anger of so many people, who are feeling unnecessary pain, to his doorstep.

I have set up a "U2 pay your tax" fb page there are only 59 likes so far but if i got enough i would look into having a protest outside his home. I don't know if the cops would allow it but would have it anyway.

I feel that the public are angry enough to get involved and this could open the debate on all tax avoidance.
I would imagine that the taxes we make from foreign companies could be equaled or surpassed if our wealthy were made pay their fair share, especially if we created a backdated tax law that could claim back taxes like the 50 million we lost when Dennis O Brien moved his residency to Portugal when he sold his Esat

I have set up a petition please sign and share

http://www.change.org/petitions/u2-pay-your-taxes-to-th...state

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   artists = tax scammers     dave    Wed Jun 26, 2013 20:13 
   taxes     ciara    Wed Jun 26, 2013 20:20 
   Bono     James Corcoran    Thu Jun 27, 2013 12:17 
   maybe change petition?     ordinary citizen    Thu Jun 27, 2013 17:17 
   What to do with tax money? Who decides?     T    Thu Jun 27, 2013 21:18 
   Bono     James Corcoran    Thu Jun 27, 2013 22:20 
   U2 taxes     Billy McGrath    Sat Jun 29, 2013 12:47 
   what taxes?     ciara    Sat Jun 29, 2013 13:43 
   @ Billie and all those who defend U2     ordinary citizen    Sun Jun 30, 2013 18:54 
 10   here here     ciara    Sun Jun 30, 2013 19:39 
 11   change of petition name to U2 pay your tax     ordinary citizen    Mon Jul 01, 2013 16:23 
 12   Fairplay!     Luke Eastwood    Mon Jul 15, 2013 22:50 
 13   shame is our weapon against Bono and the boys     ordinary citizen    Thu Aug 15, 2013 14:09 
 14   For info     Crazy Cat    Thu Aug 15, 2013 15:02 
 15   Mr Tax Exiles have some honour; pay your taxes in Ireland, create employment in Ireland     Comyn    Thu Aug 15, 2013 15:47 
 16   Gay Byrne     Damien M    Fri Aug 16, 2013 14:58 
 17   Yes, Gay Byrne contributor to Irish Society, with honour to overcome obstacles & start again     Comyn    Fri Aug 16, 2013 16:00 
 18   Role Models     ordinary citizen    Mon Aug 26, 2013 20:23 
 19   bono defending the indefensible again     ordinary citizen    Mon Sep 23, 2013 20:11 
 20   Bono investment supporting US foreign policy and oil company interests over poor Venezuelan people's interests     fred    Tue Sep 24, 2013 04:06 
 21   THE EDGE - movie     Charles Moore    Sun Nov 05, 2017 22:09 
 22   Only Bono?     Connemara Man    Tue Nov 07, 2017 17:03 


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