A great quote from former British prime minister Clement Attlee on "charity"

[Ken Burch]

[applegrove]

1. It is places like Pakistan where taxes are not paid.

[Ken Burch]

2. There, and among the 1% here.

n/t.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Facts do not support such a statement about Pakistan.

FBR collects Rs770b during October-December, additional measures now unlikely.

ISLAMABAD: Tax authorities have surpassed their collection target for the second quarter of the ongoing fiscal year, besides recovering a significant part of the shortfall during July-September on the back of a mini-budget introduced last month, reducing chances of additional measures.
Against the October-December target of Rs750 billion, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) provisionally collected Rs770 billion, a growth of 21.5% over the same period of the last year, said spokesman Dr Mohammad Iqbal.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1019890/rare-occurrence-pakistans-revenue-collection-surpasses-target/

[applegrove]

4. So they are trying to do better. A 21.5% growth of collected taxes in one

year implies they were not collecting all taxes the year before. No?

[Ken Burch]

6. Why is it important to you to make this just about Pakistan?

I'm no fan of their regime...but why do you seem to want to focus on one country?

It's a global problem that the rich don't pay the taxes they owe, while making an sanctimonious argument that their "charitable donations" should somehow make up for that and also prove their inherent superiority to the rest of the human race.

[applegrove]

7. Because countries that don't pay taxes are basket cases on a whole host of things and that

is what the 1% in the USA want for the USA. While other countries struggle to improve the 1% fight to devolve the United States. I'm not criticizing the pakistani culture or people, just the way those who can afford do not pay their fair share. Pakistani rich go shopping together in a group with their own private ambulances in tow. Not something the US should emulate but the logical conclusion of libertarian plutocrats taking over in the US.

[burrowowl]

5. Good Quote!

[alp227]

8. not really his quote, rather a paraphrase

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Clement_Attlee

[Ken Burch]

10. Thank for the additional information.

n/t.

[First Speaker]

9. Attlee may be the single most underrated man of the 20th century...