Minted with holes

Baaaarrffff… I’m still feeling slightly queasy about the Paradise Papers’ revelations in which people who’ve got more money than you could ever imagine can’t bear to part with much of it in order to keep our public services running.

They don’t use those services of course, because in doing so they’d have to come into contact with ordinary people – the very folk who’ve enabled them to earn the money they don’t want to part with.

What I don’t understand is, if you’re minted to the tune of several hundred million pounds, or even ‘just’ 10 million, why would you be so desperate to avoid parting with less than half of it for the common good?

Still, the loopholes are there, so why not take advantage? Why are the loopholes there? That’s the key question. Why is no-one answering it? That’s another question.