He should say what I've always thought he should say - 'personally I thought it was a mistake, I was against it from the point of view of my humanitarian work, but U2 is a 4-way democracy (5 if you include Paul who I'm sure gets a large say in their tax affairs), and in this instance I was out-voted. Tough shit.'
I refer back again to the concept of good PR. Bono must have known (or had PR advisors telling him about) the amount of flak that he would encounter in going along with this decision - there are people you come across day-in-day-out who, on the subject of U2, will never give them or their music a chance because they hate Bono's hypocrisy. You might say, well so what that's their loss, but I'm sure you and I would both agree that U2, with all their desire to reach out to 'the people' at large, would disagree with that riposte.
I'm not sure, because I couldn't care less about this tax crap, but didn't the Rolling Stones and others to the exact same thing? I don't really hear about them catching flack for it.
He should say what I've always thought he should say - 'personally I thought it was a mistake, I was against it from the point of view of my humanitarian work, but U2 is a 4-way democracy (5 if you include Paul who I'm sure gets a large say in their tax affairs), and in this instance I was out-voted. Tough shit.'
Is it some weird European thing to bash someone for finding ways to pay less taxes? In America, (most) people would high-five U2 and say, "Show me how to do that!" Why would you give more money to the government than you have to?
LU, like another poster in here said just recently (perhaps it was in the Focus on the Family thread), disagreeing with or criticising someone isn't necessarily the same as "hating on them" you know...
He should say what I've always thought he should say - 'personally I thought it was a mistake, I was against it from the point of view of my humanitarian work, but U2 is a 4-way democracy (5 if you include Paul who I'm sure gets a large say in their tax affairs), and in this instance I was out-voted. Tough shit.'
And the "pouvre Africa" party line is ... interesting since Netherlands actually donates more money out of their GDP than Ireland for charity.