I\’m directed to this:
Richard Murphy (Tax Research LLP) has been providing a lot of technical support. But please note he is a freelance consultant, so there are limits on what support he can provide without remuneration!
Seems entirely fair to me.
I was asked to do a quick paper just recently and I had to point out that part of my living comes from scribbling for people. If you want a few hundred words of stream of consciousness stuff, as with a blog post, sure, fine.
You want a few thousand of something more considered then yes, you do need to make a contribution to my mortgage/beer bill.
There\’s all sorts of things to pound the man for but making a living isn\’t one of them.
Maybe you should create a new classification of “Not Ragging on Ritchie” or even “I agree with Ritchie”.
Fair dos to Murphy, but any officer of a company that parts with cash to line the pockets of that fuckwit is probably in breach of his fiduciary duty.
Surely there is a balance between supply (at a price) and demand (at a price) even for idiots.
You must remember that Ritchie is one of Stalins “Useful Idiots”.
This is the great value of market-driven economics. They can prove that even idiocy has a price and therefore a value to someone.