Danny Alexander - Kant

Seems my post of 4 May about Enabling Acts is very much a live issue. I reported that HM Revenue and Customs had drafted new laws penalising ‘deliberate wrongdoing’, defined as an act capable of causing a ‘loss of tax.’ This in turn was defined as ‘relief, reduction, repayment or credit of any kind.’

In other words, the HRMC turds wanted to make legitimate tax avoidance illegal. Having created the most complex and inefficient tax code in the world, HRMC wished it to be a crime for anyone to advise another how to mimimise tax within the laws HRMC itself has created.

Yesterday Danny 'Beaker' Alexander, the LibDem Chief Secretary to the Treasury, delivered himself of the following, which has the Bitchy Boys squeezing themselves with delight:

As it is right to ensure that every benefit is fully justified, so we must ensure that every tax bill is paid in full. There are some people who believe that not paying their fair share of tax is a socially acceptable lifestyle choice. Like the benefit cheats, they take resources from those who need them most. Tax avoidance and evasion are unacceptable in the best of times but in today's times it is morally indefensible.

So - the LibDems are keen on stripping the uniformed police of the civil liberties-infringing powers given to them by the Blair-Brown regime, but they are all in favour of giving the fiscal police the right to prosecute people who have obeyed the law but failed to act in accordance with what they regard as an absolute and universal moral obligation, as per Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative:

Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

I always suspected the LibDems were Kants.