Indictments

The other day I got very angry at the way corporations around the world avoid their share of taxes.  Not only their “fair share of taxes” but taxes of any kind.  Despite the stories (although few) written about these tax avoidances people seem very passive in allowing themselves to be screwed over, so to speak.  I just don’t understand it.  Most people don’t seem to feel in the slightest bit incensed that major companies like Starbucks, Tim Horton’s, Apple, Amazon and MacDonalds avoid taxes.  The really big corporations like the oil companies and banks they are even better at avoiding taxes.

But why don’t people get mad?  I understand that people feel powerless, that they have to make ends meet and so they may not have any energy to fight but really, can’t you at least get mad? 

Back in 1971 when I graduated from high school a university education was affordable for a regular family.  Tuition cost around $300 for a full year (i.e. classes went from September to April/May – that was one full term).  Books would cost between $150 and $300 depending on the courses.  Students could easily earn their second years tuition and book fees during their summer breaks.  Generally students got through university with little or no debt (the debt arising more from living expenses if they didn’t live at home).  A family ought to be able to create an environment in the home that encourages its children to strive for better opportunities which would most likely include secondary education.  But in today’s world this has become increasingly out of reach since education has become For Profit enterprises rather than a way of advancing the betterment of citizenship.

Why is this happening?  The bottom line reason is the same old snake in the grass, greed.

I entitled this article “Indictments” because I think it’s time that citizens start investigating those corporations that are complicit in keeping individuals in a constant state of submission.  Or do you think it is alright for citizens to be pushed down and back to the level of serfs?  Think it won’t happen, well, I ask you to think again.