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Spare a moment to think of the super-rich

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  • Oblivion
    Oblivion Posts: 20,248 Forumite
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    milliemonster wrote: »
    the rest of their money they earn they should do something constructive with it instead of buying endless cars/jewellery/handbags when we have such poverty and sections of society such as the elderly who can't even afford to heat their homes in the winter. It completelt disgusts me.

    If there weren't rich people to spend money on "cars/jewellery/handbags" there would be less people needed to produce such commodities, greater unemployment and even more resulting poverty. Sometimes it worth looking at the wider picture.

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  • milliemonster
    milliemonster Posts: 3,708 Forumite
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    this is my point, the superrich do this to evade taxes when they can more than afford to pay them anyway, so the government puts up the ordinary mans taxes instead to claw back the money they need
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  • needaspirin
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    When I win the Lottery! :rolleyes:
  • jm28cardiff
    jm28cardiff Posts: 210 Forumite
    Wayne and Colleen Rooney didnt spend £300k on each other in total. In reality, its all his money anyway.
  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
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    jm28cardiff wrote: »
    Wayne and Colleen Rooney didnt spend £300k on each other in total. In reality, its all his money anyway.
    A brain dead neanderthal with behavioural problems and too much money, and a fairly average slapper. Heroes for our time.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    mewbie wrote: »
    A brain dead neanderthal with behavioural problems and too much money, and a fairly average slapper. Heroes for our time.

    To be fair Brian, at the end of the day he isn't employed for his non-Neanderthalian skill set nor for the slaperism of his (non-contractural) missus.

    Astons for goalposts.........
  • moonrakerz
    moonrakerz Posts: 8,650 Forumite
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    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7802932.stm

    Perhaps someone pointed out to him how many millions he had lost !
  • WTF?_2
    WTF?_2 Posts: 4,592 Forumite
    mewbie wrote: »
    A brain dead neanderthal with behavioural problems and too much money, and a fairly average slapper. Heroes for our time.


    Rooney might not be as well off as people think, he had to take a huge loan out against future earnings halfway through the year:

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/sunday-mirror/2008/06/08/wayne-rooney-takes-out-10-million-mortgage-on-himself-98487-20599733/
    Wayne has taken out a £10million "mortgage"... on himself.

    He clinched the extraordinary deal with a South African investment bank just over two weeks ago.

    The loan will be guaranteed by future off-pitch earnings including book deals, sponsorship and advertising contracts.

    Documents lodged at Companies House show the England and Man United striker mortgaged himself to Investec bank so he could get a pile of cash up front.

    His aim is to capitalise on future earnings now as he and Coleen start a family and re-invest the cash for when he quits playing.
    Wonder how the investments are panning out......
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    Every pound less borrowed (to buy a house) is more than two pounds less to repay and more than three pounds less to earn, over the course of a typical mortgage.
  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
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    That is incredible. The guy earns a fortune, yet has to borrow money against future earnings.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    mewbie wrote: »
    That is incredible. The guy earns a fortune, yet has to borrow money against future earnings.

    David Bowie was one of the first to do the same.
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