This data from the New York Times makes clear who has benefited most and least from the US recession:
So companies have won and paid less tax too.
Workers lost, badly.
And you wonder why people are annoyed?
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It figures, re tax haven implications check out “Britain’s Biggest Boot Sale” on mine today.
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Hi Richard, did you see the article in The Guardian, by Polly Toynbee – Taxing Wealth? The public mood still escapes the Tories: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/30/tax-on-wealth-public-anger?newsfeed=true