Why are young’ish people leaving the job market?

[Doug Tait]

1 minute ago, Johnsond said:

Greed and envy 🤷‍♂️ The simplest emotion to plant. 
I did not receive a single penny from any source during the farce, does that mean I should pay back nothing to dig us out the hole it put us in🤔

 

Neither did I, can I be exempted too please

[openspaceman]

15 minutes ago, Stere said:

 

Remember UK argri is competing against subsidized  global imports.

Not to mention the lower welfare standards allowed for animals in the countries we import meat from, which is also an extra cost to production here.

[openspaceman]

Just now, Doug Tait said:

Neither did I, can I be exempted too please

Nor me. Interestingly I will receive energy payments, possibly in excess of the gas and electricity I buy.

 

 

[Sutton]

2 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Greed and envy 🤷‍♂️ The simplest emotion to plant. 
I did not receive a single penny from any source during the farce, does that mean I should pay back nothing to dig us out the hole it put us in🤔

 

Property prices went up 10+% during furlough and after lockdown because the wealthy were handed huge piles of cash. Housing is teetering on a peak and some pundits say many will be in negative equity if things get worse.

 

As for your position, by you doing less hours does that not mean more work will be available for others?

[GarethM]

I really don't get the whole land tax argument.

 

I get you want housing, but that's got zero to do with owning land, that's more to do with investment property ownership.

 

When you drive through any town and city look at the apartments standing empty and only bought as an investment.

 

That and having to many sodding kids.

Edited November 20, 2022 by GarethM

[Doug Tait]

3 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Nor me. Interestingly I will receive energy payments, possibly in excess of the gas and electricity I buy.

 

 

 

Unlike the furlough related stuff I think everyone is to receive the energy payments. Have had some discount applied myself.

[Johnsond]

12 minutes ago, Sutton said:

Property prices went up 10+% during furlough and after lockdown because the wealthy were handed huge piles of cash. Housing is teetering on a peak and some pundits say many will be in negative equity if things get worse.

 

As for your position, by you doing less hours does that not mean more work will be available for others?

I’m a self employed contractor but taxed under sched D arrangements. I don’t do hours as such but wether others will benefit 🤷‍♂️ who knows.  I do know I’m not alone in taking the foot off the pedal as such. Like I’ve stated before tax take will go down if you keep bumping up the rates, as those fools in the SNP have realised. 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

15 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Nor me. Interestingly I will receive energy payments, possibly in excess of the gas and electricity I buy.

 

 

Your energy situation is reasonably unique though - and highly commendable BYW!

 

Maybe we need greater level of incentive for individual (or even better, centrally adopted) sustainable energy production AND usage. 

[Sutton]

11 minutes ago, GarethM said:

When you drive through any town and city look at the apartments standing empty and only bought as an investment.

Council tax rises will make empty property and second homes more questionable. Land tax was a Corbyn notion and Starmer wont introduce it - I only mentioned it because of the investment point you make. Wealth owns stuff including property but doesnt use it productively. They only rent it out whilst doing nothing other maintaining it. It's called the rentier economy. It partly explains why the country is a service based economy rather than manufacturing industry. It's part of the reason why 50 year olds are dropping out of the job market.

[GarethM]

Land tax on farmland just leads to a soviet style, the government controls production bs. You can't force me to grow something under the threat of tax.

 

You see big apartments in all towns and cities, huge empty monoliths owned by foreign companies all empty. That is the failure.