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Exactly

I thought that as I wrote it, but it is still true. Most of the things we follow have nothing backing them up apart from the majority of people follow along thinking they do

Going to have to agree to disagree laws are just writings on a bit of paper, you can pass one, I can pass one. The trick is in making people believe it has some special meaning. It does not change the fact that as long as I do not impact other people (theft murder etc) I have what ever rights I want. Of course the trouble is no one believes this as we are conditioned not too by schooling, media etc

My point is the right to life, to self defense, freedom of speech, association etc are inherent they are not granted by governments or pieces of paper. Sadly governments and people do not understand this at all.

We do but the interesting thing with rights are that they are inherent regardless of if they are written down or not.

They have more than enough money the issue is one of resource allocation like all government services. Mind we do need a second amendment like in the USA too

I would love to see them if you can find them again

The UK is very good at innovation to this day. What it is terrible at is leveraging that innovation, I think mostly because most british manager are not Scientists and Engineers but are pure managers who are basically yes men and will never take risks. The government of course does not help really as it is filled full of people with PPE and law degrees who are next to useless in the real world

it was broken a long time ago, in fact it never existed

Exactly and the way the world is going the ability to have paid of your house etc would be the sensible thing. Infact it is totally counter intuitive what they are doing I am kind of hoping the Q turns out to be then I am done paying taxes or obeying statute laws

For me it was a mix of things. I am really fed up being a free range tax slave and I could not stand the organisation I was working for there was no ability to make decisions and the politics was out of this world. Of course it was defence company milking tax payers money. Now I am working in autonomous vehicles and travelling a lot and working out how to minimise further the money I give to the government. I think most people are realising the stress and hassle is just not worth it, do what you love you are only here once. It does cause a problem for the government though they some how seem to think they have a right to our money.

This is also why they are going to change the IR35 rules the beast must be fed at all costs.

I shrugged I went from being an executive in a large engineering company paying 50-60K in tax total between bonuses, and my consulting sideline. However a few months ago I quit the full time job and just work of and live of my consultancy side of things. They are getting hardly anything from me now and I could not be happier.

They are all corrupt USA, UK etc why we tolerate it is what amazes me. I am a big fan of the US founding fathers. Read the declaration of independence it is perhaps one of the finest written documents http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/ It is time we started thinking as they did the political bands are not working for us.

I think until recently insider trading was not illegal for congress. As the Americans say laws for thee but not for me