Wednesday, August 02, 2006

CHEERS, MICK

Naturally, since Murdoch does all he can to pay as little tax as possible on his corporate earnings, The Sun is full of admiration at the discovery that the Rolling Stones have paid just £4million tax - mostly to the Netherlands. In effect, that's about £97million that could have been spent repaying the UK for the education and healthcare the Stones received when they were growing up, or helping with the costs of care and support for contemporaries of Mick's mother, Eva - the ones who couldn't afford to end their days in the relative comfort of Parkside private hospital (a hospital staffed, nevertheless, by doctors largely trained out of the public coffers which Jagger and his friends go to such great lengths to avoid contributing to.)


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