I think I saw a stat which said we pay less tax per head than many nationsOriginally Posted by HCZ_Reborn
but it's without doubt the rich should be taxed more heavily to ease the burden on others, anyway the point he's making is that tax isn't inherently evil and it's a mistake for politicians to imply otherwise
https://ifs.org.uk/taxlab/taxlab-key...nternationally
Again Tax the Rich is superficially popular because it means for most of us, Tax someone who isn’t me
But again it depends how you’re defining rich. I think the vast majority of people who id consider rich don’t make their money from fixed income so pledging to put up income tax in any form is often about as popular as herpes
Putting up VAT is fine when you’ve got a consumer boom
Corporation Tax? Well I’m not sure that’s a great idea in a stagnant economy where you want to encourage growth
Capital Gains? Well does make you wonder if Labour will end a lot of the loopholes which means a lot of capital gains are offshore and untaxed.
But in reality the sensible thing is to create growth and then put up tax to pay back the money you’ve already invested. Which means you need to borrow, and you of course need to target your investment otherwise unfocused quantative easing just puts us back to square one with inflation
Basically there’s no easy answers and certainly none that can be hit upon in the five year lifetime of a parliament, and politicians usually are not incentivised to take the tough decisions which cause short term pain but long term gain
Last edited by HCZ_Reborn; 14-06-2024 at 02:56 PM.
OMG, it's Space:1999 for real (albeit a bit slower...)
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techa...l_article_link
An Earth day will become 25 hours within 200 million years
But then again the Sun would have gone Supernova and swallowed up the Earth long before that
It’s been known that the moon is drifting away from us for ages.
The Apollo missions put reflectors on the moon (which is one reason we know they actually went), which have been used since then to accurately determine the distance to the moon.
HCZ, I think the sun is too small to go supernova but it will turn into a red giant and if not swallow the earth then certainly it will have destroyed all life on earth. I thought the timescale was more in the billions of years. Either way, I don’t think it’s anything we need to worry about
This sounds serious. We should tax poor people to prevent this. And give the proceeds to the rich.
Or would two climate scams be a bridge too far?
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Yeah the sun expansion isn't for 5 billion years.
You used to be everything to me
Now you're tired of fighting
I'm not worried then.
Our Lord and Saviour will have come back before then.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn00ndjg238o
Why don't presenters have the balls to just tell these people to fuck off rather than pandering to them and making insincere apologies.
It tends to be a chain reaction thing, the charity will complain because it’s worried other people will get offended by them if they don’t
It’s basically example 400,000,000 where Social Media drives people crazy and amplifies even the smallest of issues
Also there are plenty of conditions that cause seizures
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