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Real companies any more?

Are there any "real companies" any more, that make a product or service and sell it for a reasonable mark up? Instead we have companies which do share buy backs, "creative" accounting which Meyer Lansky would be jealous of, and all to prop up share prices so that certain people get bonuses.

Here in the UK we have a Chancellor of the Exchequer whose wife who creatively avoided paying tax here, claiming non-domicile status while being married to an effing MP and government minister. Was this some sort of long distance Skype relationship? Then, when she is called out, she "announces" that she will start paying tax here. How very generous.

Sometimes I feel that I'm the only person paying tax in this country.

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