Should Bono and U2 pay more tax?

[Mrs. Garrison]

I just shot a homeless bum and stole his shopping cart. Bastard wasn't paying his 25% like he should be. He gonna pay now!

 

[david]

yada yada yada tax competitiveness, yada yada blah

 

[LemonMelon]

Who are the rich?

If you can afford to take 6 years off between albums, you're rich.

 

[jeevey]

what exactly is a "glorified delivery man" anyway?

A delivery man who looks like Larry Mullen Jr, and leaves a bunch of jaw-dropped, blushing women and inexplicably pissy men in his wake every time he drives away in his little lorry.

 

[BVS]

If you can afford to take 6 years off between albums, you're rich.

 

[Galeongirl]

Legally No. Ethically no. And I'd like to pay less as well if they can arrange it for me.

That, pretty much.

They already pay more tax than I earn in a year (they still live in Ireland, most of the company is still in Ireland, just not the revenues for merchandise and such). So I don't see why they should pay even more tax.

This really boils down to some sort of jealousy doesn't it? They make more money then me, so they should pay a higher percentage (while they already pay more tax anyway), waah waah.

 

[lemonfly]

Good for U2. If they weren't "tax sensible" they would probably need to actually release an album and tour in order to maintain their lifestyles and plough money into disastrous investments *cough*Spider-Man*cough* Imagine that?

 

[U2girl]

They're paying enough or the irish IRS would be all over it.

 

[gman]

Show me a person who wouldnt rather pay less tax and i will show you a liar

 

[gvox]

what exactly is a "glorified delivery man" anyway?

Drug dealer?

 

[YBORCITY]

They could be nice and pay my taxes.....

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Yes. And so should you. Next time we fill out our tax forms, we shouldn't try to pay as little as possible.

I mean I'm already paying quite a lot of money to the government on a biweekly basis. But by all means... feel free to increase your own contributions.

Once they can show that they will be responsible with how the money is actually spent... ha, I kid. That'll never happen.