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Yet he won't do that, he asks others to fix the public finances. While doing virtue signalling in public about equality.

His company, along with google and Facebook are the biggest tax dodgers on earth.

In this letter I see names that have never done anything significant, yet they feel entitled to correct one of the forefathers of software development.

I suppose that is true for MIT, for mainstream media, and for US corporations.

This issue is present in any political system, even full egalitarianism, increase population by an arbitrary amount to reduce land per citizen to an epsilon.

Provided you are a good neighbour, it will always be possible to find space to rent at the marginal cost, without a rent-seeking political class.

But the point it's that taxes should be phrased and understood for what they are, a whitewashed extortion. It has no proportion at all with costs of running a rule of law society. Be grateful that we take just 50% from you because we could take everything!

I just applaud fair countries that don't extort their own citizens.

I choose the family, I choose the job, I choose what I consume and where I live

Unfortunately I can't walk away from being stolen 50% of my revenues every year.

No individual owes anything to the bigger group. That's the principle. In practice you see a lot of abuse, sadly.

pypi servers receive 1 million requests per minute. That's likely more than wikipedia.

A website like pypi gets much more server load and they have never asked for a penny.

Just the usual scaremongering.

I also shop at Tesco and the stocks haven't changed at all.

Proceeds to introduce you grep.

They don't pay VAT (revenue under 80k). They are self-employed, so corporate tax does not apply. They pay a 10% in National insurance.

And on income they pay for the 10k to 30k tier, at 20%.

Compare this with a normal company hiring staff. Tax burden doubles just with addition of VAT.