Tax avoidance laws for the rich yet outrage still reserved for the poor and 'undeserving'

We can get so angry about people we see as undeserving, and be so sanguine about people who are living really, really well, writes Fergus Finlay

Tax avoidance laws for the rich yet outrage still reserved for the poor and 'undeserving'

Where are the trolls this week? Why isn’t the internet ablaze? Why have all the people who wax so indignantly on social media gone so silent?

They were all fierce busy when the story of Margaret Cash was in the papers. But in the face of an astonishing report from the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) about the wealthiest people in the country, they have nothing to say.

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