Making the news today....

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

4 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Blimey KJ, that’s depressed me!

 

We will all end up like the Eloi.

 

5 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Blimey KJ, that’s depressed me!

 

We will all end up like the Eloi.

Not “all” Mick! There’ll always need to be a Morlock class ?

 

I really like the idea of UI. 
 

Everyone gets the same basic package. If you want to get on, you find your ways to do so. 
 

If you don’t want to get on, quit your whining you got your subsidy. 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

2 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

More fool me Kev!

 

I feel so stupid for not realising.

Fair play Egger, last month it would have been a dead cert. 

 

Weather has put a bit of a damper on things today though - wouldn’t want to get the brogues muddy. 

[trigger_andy]

Just now, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

really like the idea of UI. 
 

Everyone gets the same basic package. If you want to get on, you find your ways to do so. 
 

If you don’t want to get on, quit your whining you got your subsidy. 

 

In this scenario would everyone get UI regardless if they worked or not? Or would the UI stop or decrease with the more you earned actually working for a living? 

[eggsarascal]

5 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Fair play Egger, last month it would have been a dead cert. 

 

Weather has put a bit of a damper on things today though - wouldn’t want to get the brogues muddy. 

See, you can tell it was Tories out there rioting, brogues, I ask ya! We,d just manage a pair of Plimsoles.

 

You are giving the game away without knowing it...

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

1 minute ago, trigger_andy said:

 

In this scenario would everyone get UI regardless if they worked or not? Or would the UI stop or decrease with the more you earned actually working for a living? 

Everyone of an adult qualifying age gets the same universal basic income. From that you pay all your liabilities. No council tax rebate, no family support, no free rent, no married tax allowance, no income tax. 
 

Just a simple, single figure the same for all. I mean, just imagine the dismantling of HMRC and DSS! The savings would go a long way. 
 

You want 10 kids, no problem. If you find a house, and pay for it out of yr UBI (and what ever you do to top it up) good on ya. 

Of course there’d have to be a redistribution of wealth to achieve it but even I can accept that the extremes of wealth inequality are unsustainable. 
 

Apologies to Mick, this should really be in a thread called making the news TOMORROW. 

 

Who’d have thought that Turkish incident would have started a thread that’d still be rolling strong? It nearly died but rose again! Bloody BREXIT!

 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

1 minute ago, eggsarascal said:

See, you can tell it was Tories out there rioting, brogues, I ask ya! We,d just manage a pair of Plimsoles.

 

You are giving the game away without knowing it...

Play along Egger, it upsets the Reds ?

[eggsarascal]

1 minute ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Play along Egger, it upsets the Reds ?

Right, I'm just lacing up my secondhand doc Martin boots, bear with me bruth.

[trigger_andy]

Just now, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Everyone of an adult qualifying age gets the same universal basic income. From that you pay all your liabilities. No council tax rebate, no family support, no free rent, no married tax allowance, no income tax. 

I could live with that. As long as the tax on people who worked for a living did not increase.Sounds good in principle, would never work in reality. people have gotten far to used to allowing the government molly coddle them. Once the same dossers who currently live off of the Dole have blown their allocation they and all the bleeding hearts would demand more for them. Inevitably via green eyes and then through either an increase in tax on those who work of a reduction/removal of their UI. 

 

4 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

You want 10 kids, no problem. If you find a house, and pay for it out of yr UBI (and what ever you do to top it up) good on ya. 

Would never happen. Far to many bleeding hearts out there. It could be argued its not the children's fault so they need taken care of financially and then bingo, the worse elements of the UK are breeding like rats again and coining it in.

 

 With so many currently being on furlough and receiving 80% of their previous wage everyone seems happy to doss about at home. Suddenly swathes of people are to scared to return to work, which is convenient as they have more free cash than ever.

 

Now clearly Im no economist but if the people of the UK are not producing anything how will taxes be raised? Its all well and good saying Robots will produce it all for us but I simply cant get my head around how that would work. If people are not earning a wage how can they buy anything? Surely inflation would go through the roof, it sounds utterly unsustainable. It also sounds like communist BS if Im honest.

 

[Khriss]

33 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Blimey KJ, that’s depressed me!

 

We will all end up like the Eloi.

Ooooo good shout - Rod Taylor in HG Wells Time Machine . Netflixing now. K

[Mick Dempsey]

13 minutes ago, Khriss said:

Ooooo good shout - Rod Taylor in HG Wells Time Machine . Netflixing now. K

The original and best for sure.