...and there I was trying to be an idealistically and indignantly righteous great british cynic!rcain wrote:... and I had always put you down as a great british cynic Chrismb, yet you are sounding like a righteously indignant idealist. do you even pay US taxes?
I rather expect I do pay US taxes in some way or other. Y'know, we only just payed of the post war (WW2) loan off to you guys last year.
Did you know there's still an unpaid loan (of ours to you, and of others to us) from WW1 that kinda got fogotten about in the 1930's depression?
Apparently there are still some UK governement 'bonds' about that now form part of larger financial instruments that date back to Napoleonic times.
As for direct taxes, well, depends what you mean by taxes but some money of mine drops straight into the US coffers every now and again. I also work for a US multi-national, so I am quite sure my hours of sweat and toil are taxed in the US...yeah, sure, I contribute to the US economy in a sufficient, albeit peripheral way, to hold an opinion!
But I'm sure you know this wasn't my point. I aim to be a noisy indignant world-citizen of the liberal West, on behalf of all those little people who are quietly indignant.