At last! A person in the limelight has come out and said what I (and I suspect many) have been thinking for years.
Brian Johnson,the excellent frontman for ACDC has had a right go at the famous dogooders that seem to thrive on publicising charitable causes. He said:
“I don’t tell everybody they should give money – they can’t afford it. When I was a working man I didn’t want to go to a concert for some bastard to talk down to me that I should be thinking of some kid in Africa.
“I’m sorry mate, do it yourself, spend some of your own money and get it done. It just makes me angry. I become all tyrannical.”
I just hope that Saint Bono takes notice.
I've tried to find any evidence that Bono gives large amounts to charity. And I have not found it.
Bono only pays 2.5% taxes on his income, because U2 has a special tax dodge arrangement, in which it is chartered not in Ireland or the UK, but in the Netherlands.
Even though U2 pays less tax than you or I or their vast wealth they want Britain and America to give billions more each year to Africa, yet they seem reluctant to do as they preach.
If anyone can find any news article that shows that Bono has given any actual money to charity, please post it as a comment to this blog.
I'm not talking about benefit concerts that he's organised.I'm not talking about donating a guitar scrawled with marker pen to be auctioned off for charity. I'm talking about any actual sacrifice Bono has made that would partially offset him cheating his government out of millions in Taxes.
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