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My personal view, based on long experience. To the left all wealth is wrong no matter how it is used. That's a recipe for impoverishing everyone. I'm not two-faced about this like Mliband and Balls - on the one hand "encouraging investment", on the other hand making cheap political capital by appealing to the worst instincts of the electorate. I already addressed tax dodging, and it's nothing like as big as politicos want us to believe at any convenient time. The world is unfair; life is "unfair; get over it and don't get consumed by it! In particular don't let politicos tell you there's a pot of gold out there - there simply isn't! I could have phrased it that everyone pays their taxes in the jurisdiction where it is due, except a few cheats who are breaking laws anyway, but I've already explained that at length. Non-doms - either unintentionally or intentionally - don't owe some of their taxes in UK jurisdiction. That's inconvenient for Miliband's jealousy and envy party, but if he pursues this nonsense that will become evident in time. By then it will be too late. But politicos get to walk away from their mistakes, and someone else gets to foot the bill - largely us! Why isn't he railing about 10% corporation tax in the Irish Republic that's parasitic on our economy and constantly draining our inward investment? Now that IS a serious and real loss of tax revenue; but he can't go there because it's politically inconvenient to him. http://www.forbes.com/sites/taxanalysts/2013/11/06/if-ireland-is-not-a-tax-haven-what-is-it/ Thing is I don't believe this is a Gordon Brown self-delusion kind of mistake. I believe this one is cynical manipulation of the electorate, those who don't understand, or (it seems to me, in our Tony's case) don't want to understand the full issue. This is the the old strategy of demonising an identifiable group of people, and blaming them for all ills. It's shabby, it's sad, and Miliband puts himself beyond contempt. David Starkey fully express my feelings on this - Miliband is poison!