I like Jimmy Carr. He mainly makes me laugh. His comedy is a little bit close to the edge, yes, but that’s much better than it being safe and traditional, in my humble opinion.
However, he does try to pretend he is still ‘one of us’, and, supposedly looking at the greedy world around him, around ‘us’, will regularly make jokes about ‘fat-cat bankers’ hiding all their cash, and so on.
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As with with most celebrities who have humble beginnings, we kinda identify with them even when they are living highly desirable lifestyles and earning far more in a year than the ‘Average Joe’ watching them, manages to earn in their entire lifetime.
Whether it’s the old celebs like Cilla Black and Paul O’Grady, the young lads in ‘One Direction‘, or the likes of Jimmy Carr, they all share one major thing in common. They are earning a lot of money. They are extremely rich.
And £3.3 MILLION of Jimmy Carr‘s annual income was being directed through a tax avoidance scheme.
Let’s focus on that. £3.3 MILLION a year. Nice salary if you can get it, eh? About the same as a “fat-cat banker” might want to be hiding from tax maybe? (Pot. Kettle?)
As I said, I don’t think that the ordinary members of the public, the grafters, the people who ultimately pay their hard earned cash to watch these fat-cat celebrities have any idea how much they are helping them earn. As ordinary people chuckle at their jokes and quips about ‘rich people’, they are blissfully unaware how rich those making the jokes and quips actually are themselves.
To be honest, the disparity between ordinary people and the fat-cat celebrities is nothing short of obscene.
A person on minimum wage may have to work for a whole long 10 hour shift in order to afford the ticket to see one of these fat-cat celebrity‘s shows at an arena. In return, the fat-cat celebrity gets paid that same amount of money after working for just 10 minutes. That can’t be fair.
Then, to avoid putting money back into the country through their taxes, whilst those on minimum wage have no choice in the matter but to PAYE, is an insult. It’s a slap in the face.
The jokes from the fat-cat comedians are always about how the rich and the wealthy bankers are in some way to be ridiculed and despised for their wealth, as if it is only they who are ripping the ordinary man off to make their millions.
Well, it’s time all fat-cat celebrities were given exactly the same treatment.
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