I sympathise. One thing that we used to be able to do (in the UK) to legally avoid paying corporation tax (as it was called in the UK), was to invest the money in new plant et cetera. I believe, particularly for small businesses, this was actually a great idea, because if you were in profit, and by enough to worry about the tax bill, then it made sense for everyone (country, company and staff) to modernise/improve the business. Then came along a government who ripped that out of the system, and lo and behold a few years later we were being told that businesses weren't investing! Doh!

By and large, I think, the problem we have is that we have systems that sensibly demand that politicians seek re-election every so many years, but as a bi-product of that caution, governments only have real 'forward vision' for about the length of their term in office. I think this possibly explains why we sometimes (well, I do) think that they practice knee-jerk legislation... and seem to carry on running from one end of the see-saw to the other in an effort to balance things by plugging the holes in their policies.

There has to be another way??????

Sadly, I think Quaektem's right.

I suppose it could be worse.... they could give the revenue to the banks instead again!