Oh good heavens. I buy into corporate greed do I? I've been talking about paying taxes to take care of people. Please explain what that has to do with corporate greed.

I do apologise for arguing without having all the facts to hand. Not seeing eye to eye with you has become so much of a habit that it's tempting to go on autopilot. Income tax in the US and the UK go for very different things. I've had a look at graphs for where the money in the US goes. Much of income tax there goes on military and veterans' pay. But there are other areas on which it is spent too, such as maintaining a judicial system, national transport, social security and other benefits for the elderly, research, etc. Surely what should be happening is for people to be making their voices heard about how they want this money to be spent -- less on military, more on social programmes. I still don't see how refusing to pay in at all is going to help.

Would you like to see the US dissolved into 50 different little countries? Do you think that would benefit its citizens? If not, there needs to be some kind of national framework, which is also financed. Personally I think a national government can be a great force for the good of its people if it has its priorities right. Sweden is a good example, worth looking into. If I spoke Swedish I'd be tempted to move there.