Church calls for tax on bankers

[Soovy]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8863794/A...


Tell you what, while we're at it, why not tax organisations like the Church who own vast swathes of the land. Or perhaps kiddie fiddling clerics.

Idiot.

[king arthur]

More taxes, yep that's the way to get the economy moving.

[baz1985]

Next restart paying taxes directly to Rome....Henry V111 solved that!

[Puggit]

How about a tax on collection plates for invisible friends?

[DonkeyApple]

The Christian church has hated bankers ever since the Medici family and the Jews of Florence under-cut the church's extortion rackets and began freeing the people from the tyrany of the church. They weren't able to kill them all like they did the Templars and have been uppitty ever since.

It's all a bit like Ryanair complaining that EasyJet are screwing customers.

[Soovy]

DonkeyApple said:

The Christian church has hated bankers ever since the Medici family and the Jews of Florence under-cut the church's extortion rackets and began freeing the people from the tyrany of the church. They weren't able to kill them all like they did the Templars and have been uppitty ever since.

It's all a bit like Ryanair complaining that EasyJet are screwing customers.

[singlecoil]

With all the money that banks have, you would have thought they could afford better PR. This sort of thing indicates just how low the banking industry has sunk in public perception.

[DonkeyApple]

singlecoil said:

With all the money that banks have, you would have thought they could afford better PR. This sort of thing indicates just how low the banking industry has sunk in public perception.

How about:

'WE FIDDLE WITH BALANCE SHEETS, NOT KIDS'.

[MX7]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[SpeedMattersNot]

king arthur said:

More taxes, yep that's the way to get the economy moving.

Lol, what's the difference between that and making cuts?

[Soovy]

DonkeyApple said:

singlecoil said:

With all the money that banks have, you would have thought they could afford better PR. This sort of thing indicates just how low the banking industry has sunk in public perception.

How about:

'WE FIDDLE WITH BALANCE SHEETS, NOT KIDS'.

[singlecoil]

DonkeyApple said:

singlecoil said:

With all the money that banks have, you would have thought they could afford better PR. This sort of thing indicates just how low the banking industry has sunk in public perception.

How about:

'WE FIDDLE WITH BALANCE SHEETS, NOT KIDS'.

Doesn't really do anything for bankers' PR though, does it? It may make bankers look better than organised religion, but the general public are not that impressed with either. Pretty much the pot calling the kettle black is how the man in the street will see it.

[DonkeyApple]

singlecoil said:

DonkeyApple said:

singlecoil said:

With all the money that banks have, you would have thought they could afford better PR. This sort of thing indicates just how low the banking industry has sunk in public perception.

How about:

'WE FIDDLE WITH BALANCE SHEETS, NOT KIDS'.

Doesn't really do anything for bankers' PR though, does it? It may make bankers look better than organised religion, but the general public are not that impressed with either. Pretty much the pot calling the kettle black is how the man in the street will see it.

They could always compare annual charitable donations as a % of NAV and see who is more caring?

[singlecoil]

DonkeyApple said:

singlecoil said:

DonkeyApple said:

singlecoil said:

With all the money that banks have, you would have thought they could afford better PR. This sort of thing indicates just how low the banking industry has sunk in public perception.

How about:

'WE FIDDLE WITH BALANCE SHEETS, NOT KIDS'.

Doesn't really do anything for bankers' PR though, does it? It may make bankers look better than organised religion, but the general public are not that impressed with either. Pretty much the pot calling the kettle black is how the man in the street will see it.

They could always compare annual charitable donations as a % of NAV and see who is more caring?

Bankers making themselves look better than organised religion isn't addressing my point. They need to make themselves look better than they look at the moment if they are going to avoid unwanted attention from vote-seeking politicians.

[theaxe]

SpeedMattersNot said:

king arthur said:

More taxes, yep that's the way to get the economy moving.

Lol, what's the difference between that and making cuts?

Cuts impact public services which don't directly drive the economy. Of course many businesses depend on spending by publics services but without the taxes that public services absorb in the first place those businesses would be able to invest and expand.

Given the current state of the deficit cuts must come first, but once under control tax cuts can follow.

[DonkeyApple]

singlecoil said:

DonkeyApple said:

singlecoil said:

DonkeyApple said:

singlecoil said:

With all the money that banks have, you would have thought they could afford better PR. This sort of thing indicates just how low the banking industry has sunk in public perception.

How about:

'WE FIDDLE WITH BALANCE SHEETS, NOT KIDS'.

Doesn't really do anything for bankers' PR though, does it? It may make bankers look better than organised religion, but the general public are not that impressed with either. Pretty much the pot calling the kettle black is how the man in the street will see it.

They could always compare annual charitable donations as a % of NAV and see who is more caring?

Bankers making themselves look better than organised religion isn't addressing my point. They need to make themselves look better than they look at the moment if they are going to avoid unwanted attention from vote-seeking politicians.

Bankers/money lenders have always been the 'boogey man' or scape goat. I don't think there is much point in wasting money on PR as the only way you can get people to stop blaming the banks is for them to blame themselves for borrowing too much. No PR in the world can get people to accept they are to blame for their own actions.

[singlecoil]

DonkeyApple said:

Bankers/money lenders have always been the 'boogey man' or scape goat. I don't think there is much point in wasting money on PR as the only way you can get people to stop blaming the banks is for them to blame themselves for borrowing too much. No PR in the world can get people to accept they are to blame for their own actions.

Well in that case they should hang on to the money. They seem quite good at that.

[ForzaWhitesGen2]

Soovy said:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8863794/A...


Tell you what, while we're at it, why not tax organisations like the Church who own vast swathes of the land. Or perhaps kiddie fiddling clerics.

Idiot.

Yep! agree.. Wasn't St.Pauls built primarily with a tax on coal, whilst the church
didn't use its only monies.....

[turbobloke]

DonkeyApple said:

singlecoil said:

DonkeyApple said:

singlecoil said:

With all the money that banks have, you would have thought they could afford better PR. This sort of thing indicates just how low the banking industry has sunk in public perception.

How about:

'WE FIDDLE WITH BALANCE SHEETS, NOT KIDS'.

Doesn't really do anything for bankers' PR though, does it? It may make bankers look better than organised religion, but the general public are not that impressed with either. Pretty much the pot calling the kettle black is how the man in the street will see it.

They could always compare annual charitable donations as a % of NAV and see who is more caring?

They could or, looking at it another way, who gives a toss what some hairy old communist in a frock has to say.

[nocarjames]

turbobloke said:

They could or, looking at it another way, who gives a toss what some hairy old communist in a frock has to say.

unfortunately a large proportion of the country, who now consider bankers as bad as estate agents if not worse.