Bono said, "Pay more taxes." Bill Clinton said, "Your groupies are prettier than mine."
Irish demonstrators have had enough. They’re tired of U2 rocker Bono haranguing world leaders to increase taxes when the hypocritical Hibernian band won’t pay its fair share of taxes.
While the band staged an concert on the roof of BBC headquarters, a group of demonstrators staged a protest on the street below. They chastised the band for moving its business to the Netherlands to avoid increased Irish taxes.
The protesters’ placards read “Bono: pay your taxes” and “Bono: don’t be a banker” and the poetic “We’ll downl’d it 4 free and give the money to charity.”
Protesters said tax revenues generated by funds hidden in tax havens around the world could help cut extreme poverty in half, stop the spread of AIDS and provide universal primary education.
Bono claims to endorse the protesters’ goals, but still won’t pony up their Irish taxes.
His philosophy seems to be that while U should pay taxes, U2 shouldn’t.
Source: Irish Times
