When they were young, my children's favourite Christmas TV video was "A Muppet Christmas Carol". As a teacher I could always tell whether a book report on "A Christmas Carol" was based on reading the book or watching a video because the pupil would refer to the Marley Brothers. For those who don't know, in the book there was just the one.
Michael Caine played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge. Michael Caine is one of the famous actors who were tax exiles. He was a tax exile for ten years and is "worth" an estimated £58 million.A partial list of tax exiles is available on Wikipedia. The link is here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_exile#Famous_tax_exiles
What would Scrooge have said about taxes? "Humbug" probably.
However, in the movie Scrooge also talks about his taxes going to fund the workhouses and the prisons. We no longer have workhouses (at the time of writing). Tax exiles and tax dodgers want the police to lock up criminals and the prisons to house them. They want other people to pay for the police and the prisons.
Arguments about poverty causing crime are irrelevant to them. After all, they are not poor.
And if poor people die, Scrooge had an answer to that too. "They'd better die then and decrease the surplus population." Half the Tory Party would probably agree with that sentiment, and the other half would refrain from saying it out loud.
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