And another celebrity gets put in their place.
This time it's Bono, and MailOnline's Quentin Letts, rips him good. Here's the highlights.
What is it about this whiny little Dubliner that makes one's gorge rise?
What is it that makes him feel he can lecture the rest of us about how to spend our tax money, while he himself leads a life of near-unimaginable wealth?
Has he ever been elected? No. Is he particularly eloquent? Nope. He just happens to be exceedingly rich. And famous.
And convinced that he is a figure who can transcend politics and somehow shame us into accepting higher taxes. Because pop singer Bono said so.
Bono is a prime example of baby-boomer good vibes - of feel-good politics tarted up with celebrity endorsement.
Born in 1960, he is a pin-up for late fortysomething, early fiftysomething urbanites of a vaguely Left-wing bent.
That is, they feel they should be Left-wing, though they may not live out their principles in their spending habits. It is a very Islington state of mind.
He travels the world in a bubble of executive-jet comfort, spending a fortune on his little treats and fancies and racking up tens of thousands of air miles.
Here is a man worth hundreds of millions who has a villa in the South of France, an Italian palazzo looking over the briny near Dublin and a multi-million-pound penthouse in Manhattan.
And yet Bono's message to the Tory conference, as ever, was a homily about the poor and neglected of Africa.
So the issue itself was not the problem. It was the fact that it was being raised, yet again, by this scruffy, plutocratic, hypocritical mountebank.
That was what made it hard to take. Bono the pious! Bwana Bono the aid grandee! Bono the tax avoider.
[T]his same Bono who talks of the importance of Western aid for the world's most hungry and diseased wretches is himself no saint when it comes to volunteering tax payments.
Far from it. He seems to be so keen on money that he devotes almost as much time these days to his business dealings as he does to his music making.
The company which handles U2's fees was accused by tax campaigners this year of moving to an overseas tax haven rather than stay in Ireland.
Tax haven, eh? Where does he think government aid comes from if it does not come from taxes?
If he places such a high value on this aid, how can he decently go to such lengths (legal though they may be) to avoid paying tax in his home country?
Is this not, well, a little whiffy? Does it not smack of double standards?
Says a lot about the Left in general, doesn't it?
H/t Mises Blog.
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