Tax Avoidance = Immoral

[turbobloke]

Pit Pony said:

Rovinghawk said:

turbobloke said:

see under Tony Benn, the last ditch hope of principled leftism died with him and his inheritance tax avoidance planning...

Despite disagreeing with Tony Benn's politics, I admired the man for his honesty & conviction.

Much of this evaporated when I learnt of his hypocrisy.

The way I see it, he was just a family man, who wanted to leave his Grandchildren a legacy to pay their university tuition fees, rather than let HMRC pass it on to Milli-cleg-mRon (They surely are as bad as each other) to waste badly.

Which as stated above in this thread and/or other similar threads is fine - unless you've been arguing pointedly all your political life against that precise act namely tax avoidance. At that point Benn's principles were seen as a sham and he was rightly accused of hypocrisy. Guilty as charged.