Danny Alexander said in the Sun this morning:
Frankly, I think people who dodge the tax system are the moral equivalent of benefit cheats.
No Danny, that's not true.
No cheating is right: let's be clear about that. But the person forced into poverty by this government who is desperate to feed their children has a better moral case for cheating than the rich tax avoider who already has wealth beyond most people's imaginations.
These are not comparable crimes: tax cheating is very clearly worse.
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There’s a world of difference between cheating for survival and cheating for profit, between cheating as it’s the only way to grant yourself some quality of life and cheating because you’re consumed by greed. Danny Alexander himself cheats in his shabby little attempts to mislead. Where would he rate himself on any moral scale, one wonders?
I think most if us know how we rate Alexander