Tax, laws and university

There are laws about not paying tax. I do not recall ever agreeing to a law that asks me to pay tax but that is another story. But, unlike other laws, there are, following Jimmy Carr’s outing’, ways that one can pay less tax. One cannot increase one’s personal speed or alcohol limit, or introduce special reasons why one should be able to embezzle your employer but one can get clever and pay less tax.

Jimmy Carr and Chris Hoy have both enjoyed top of the range education. There a billions of children who’d jump at the opportunity to study at Cambridge University or St. Andrews (university not golf club) and out of those billions and the tiny fraction of those who make it perhaps one student will turn their attention and employ their intellectual skills to something worthwhile. Jimmy Carr maybe quite smart but, to what purpose has he applied himself?: dodging tax and telling jokes. You meet people like him in pubs.

There should be a responsibility taken on board when one does get to a high end university as the place that is taken up has, down the years, been paid for by the people who won’t ever get there. However rather than take up that responsibility there is an attitude that one is above, or should be treated differently in, law as one believes one to be exceptional and not one of the masses (who laws are, by and large, intended for).