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Despite a laughable conclusion that insists we need the "ambition and optimism" of the filthy rich for "our" economy "to take flight again", the preamble to @thesundaytimes #richlist 2020 understands that the greed of the super-rich is indefensible:
@thesundaytimes #richlist 2020 writes: "Once a poster boy for entrepreneurs, Sir @richardbranson attracted considerable scorn for seeking a £500m government loan to save @VirginAtlantic.
Commentators soon highlighted that @richardbranson had paid no personal tax in the UK for 14 years. But the largely unnoticed point is that over the past seven months he had enjoyed a windfall of well over £500m from the stock market float & soaring share price of @virgingalactic
@thesundaytimes #richlist 2020 on @richardbranson: "would it really be so unreasonable for him to realise some of his gain from @VIRGINGALACTIC's rising share price and use the proceeds to keep the airliner aloft?
@thesundaytimes #richlist "Then there is the case of @victoriabeckham, who at first intended to make use of the taxpayer-funded furlough scheme for 25 of her staff. Ten days after the news became public, she reversed the decision, a spokesman saying,“We don’t always get it right”
@thesundaytimes #richlist 2020: "After all, over the past five years the #beckhams have taken at least £48m of dividends from their company, Beckham Brand Holdings."
@thesundaytimes#richlist 2020: "And there is a bigger question: having racked up £35.4m of losses between 201 and 2018, was the former Spice Girl’s clothing brand ever the sort of enterprise our taxes should shore up?"
@thesundaytimes #richlist 2020: "Demanding a bailout from the taxpayer suggest the multimillionaires see their wealth as impregnable;"
@thesundaytimes #richlist 2020: "(the super-rich) might not recognise their responsibility to shore up their defences to cope with the storms that will inevitable come, and hope to carry on buying superyachts, mansions and Maseratis."
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