As a contractor, how do you answer this criticism?

[Zigenare]

Never complain, never explain.

Never apologise, never explain.

[Zigenare]

Act like you own the place, plough salt into the ground on the way out.

Crap on the boardroom table on the way out.

[Old Greg]

Crap on the boardroom table on the way in.

FTFY. Have the courage of your convictions.

[vetran]

Never apologise, never explain. never sleep in the wet patch

FTFY

[GhostofTarbera]

In plenty of forums, Facebook, social media etc, I always see the following phrase and I wondered what everyone else thought about it and how you answered it.

"People who avoid paying fair amounts of tax by creating a company, employing themselves on minimum wage and paying themselves a large dividend lose their right to an opinion on what happens to the NHS, as they aren't fairly contributing towards it. Even if what they do is legal, morally it's completely wrong."

By the way, I'm a contractor and sick of being attacked and would like to know what to say back

I cry on the way home in my maserati or 6.3L merc depending on what I’m driving that day


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[BR14]

just tell them to feck off.

[ladymuck]

I cry on the way home in my maserati or 6.3L merc depending on what I hired that day


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FTFY

[Zigenare]

FTFY. Have the courage of your convictions.

GPWM

[BrilloPad]

never sleep in the wet patch

At your age there is no way of avoiding it. Still at least you don't care any more.....

[GJABS]

Employees generally pay a higher percentage of their pay in tax, than entrepreneurs. This is because the state wants to encourage employees to become entrepreneurs. Us contractors sit somewhere between the two. So it would make sense for the state to want to incentivise us in a similar way. That's what justifies our purportedly lower rates of tax - there is no connection between what we put in and what we should have the right to take out.