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I have to agree with Wyager here. Governments create incredibly challenging tax rules and environments. Those rules are hard to understand and they cripple the

I have to agree with Wyager here. Governments create incredibly challenging tax rules and environments. Those rules are hard to understand and they cripple the growing businesses. The small business just can't compete with the big player in managing their tax affairs. This hurts even more when you know that after all the hard work that you do, your tax money isnt even being spent in the right places. After the UK decided to bomb syria, though i still paid my tax, that became more and more painful. I didnt like what the government was doing with my hard earned money. Syria is just one thing in the line of many. There are so many things the government spends money on and it all comes out of taxpayers pockets. The ordinary citizen -- in reality -- has very little say with what happens to that money. That's why i dont blame people that avoid it. I can understand their reasoning.

pipio21 10y ago
I travel the world a lot and wars are the ugliest thing that could happen to a country. I lived for 6 months in Damascus. It was an incredible city with lots of History. It breaks your heart to remember people younger than you that you know are dead now. The country is devastated and everything stops working. You go to Servia, normal people could barely survive, long after the war. A few guys made themselves rich at the expense of normal people. You go to Congo(old Zaire) and experience so much pain over the war there. In Congo it is about Cobalt and coltan, diamonds, gold. In Syria it is about strategic position, natural gas. In Libia it is about energy resources. A couple of powerful countries decide to plunder weak countries and war is the way they do it. If their leaders are not ok about plundering their own country you just give millions(or billions) of dollars in weapons to the opposition. Once a war is started, it is like a drug, both sides needs weapons just for survival and they will do anything for getting them, basically selling their country for almost nothing. A huge business at the expense of entire families dying and loosing everything they have, women being raped and the state collapsing, infrastructures destroyed.

pipio21 10y ago

I travel the world a lot and wars are the ugliest thing that could happen to a country. I lived for 6 months in Damascus. It was an incredible city with lots of History. It breaks your heart to remember people younger than you that you know are dead now. The country is devastated and everything stops working. You go to Servia, normal people could barely survive, long after the war. A few guys made themselves rich at the expense of normal people. You go to Congo(old Zaire) and experience so much pain over the war there. In Congo it is about Cobalt and coltan, diamonds, gold. In Syria it is about strategic position, natural gas. In Libia it is about energy resources. A couple of powerful countries decide to plunder weak countries and war is the way they do it. If their leaders are not ok about plundering their own country you just give millions(or billions) of dollars in weapons to the opposition. Once a war is started, it is like a drug, both sides needs weapons just for survival and they will do anything for getting them, basically selling their country for almost nothing. A huge business at the expense of entire families dying and loosing everything they have, women being raped and the state collapsing, infrastructures destroyed.