Tax - The Rich Getting Richer Poem by Paul Warren

Tax havens and family trusts you hear of it all
If you had the 80 richest people in the world in a room
They would blow the rest of us away quite easily
A company like Apple has their money away in a tax haven
And in the United States has to borrow to pay its employees
These companies and people don't pay taxes at home
Although their profits are in the billions of dollars
If they did education, health and law and order would be paid for
Privatisation is the buzz word with jobs overseas the go
And work on the weekend and don't get paid penalties
They say get rid of them and there would be more jobs I'm not convinced
The rich getting richer like the Victorian times
With less than 1% of people being well off
And the rest struggling along is this what the future holds?

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