The Sydney Morning Herald reported that activists staged a violent protest during a recent concert by U2 in Glastonbury, England.
Security personnel at the show forcibly deflated a large balloon labeled “U Pay Your Tax 2” foisted by the protestors calling themselves Art Uncut.
U2 fan Gary Noble expressed shock and dismay at the unpleasant turn of events, saying
I love U2 but I think everyone should pay their taxes. The campaigners have a right to voice their opinion
Excuse me, but the members of U2 pay taxes — where they live.
If they didn’t, they would be in prison.
The anti-capitalist members of Art Uncut whined that “while Bono campaigns against poverty in the developing world, his group has avoided paying Irish taxes at a time when his austerity-hit country desperately needs money.”
The protesters conveniently forgot, but Tom Morgan in the SMH reported, “the members of U2 invested in a wide range of Dublin properties, including a luxury riverside hotel and a planned Norman Foster-designed skyscraper on the River Liffey. Plans for the “U2 Tower” were shelved when property prices collapsed in 2008.”
The moral of the story is no matter how much tax you pay, how much investment you put back into your native country, or how much you donate of your time and money to charity, for these leeches it’s never enough.
Get a job!
These socialists are human parasites, wanting to bleed the productive members of society dry.
I would not be at all surprised to learn that in the collectivist minds of Art Uncut, the concert should have been free.
Maybe they even wanted U2 to pay them to come listen.
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