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Taxing the rich??

Thought that would go against your grain Mr J

I hate tax Mull, can't deny it.  

 

I guess, it would be more accurate to say I hate systemic governmental waste of money when that money is generated by taxing my hard graft.

 

There's no way round it, waste, incompetence, corruption etc etc etc are endemic - albeit we'll all have differing ideas and thresholds for what constitutes waste, incompetence etc and what is appropriate, sensible and VfM tax spends.

 

You can't blame the corporates for exploiting / utilising* (delete as appropriate) existing national and global tax regimes.  I'd suggest we ALL do it - albeit on a much smaller scale.

 

Governments use tax 'breaks' (and penalties) to incentivise certain behaviours but it has taken too long for all/any government to properly catch up with legislation to effectively tax offshore corporates and tax havens of the super rich.  I don't 'blame' Starbucks / Apple / Branson for what they do, I've got an ISA so I guess that makes me just as bad as them - on a much smaller scale - but the principle is the same.

 

The masses that patronise these corp's are just as bad as the corp's themselves - again, as I type on my Mac, I guess that makes me just as culpable.

 

Now that the global financial elite have been forced to recognise the fragility of the existing Ponzi scheme that is tax, and the global pandemic has forced a re-think on propping it up, they have had to seek a means to harvest income from sources that were previously off limits.  

 

Thatcher and Reagan promoted and implemented the 'trickle down' principles of macro economies which, with the passage of time, can be seen to have been a flawed concept and a failed process.  They couldn't have known it at the time but 'we', with the benefit of hindsight, can now see it as a failed process.

 

What we do know is that communism / socialism will ALWAYS fail.  No point arguing any other way. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Michael Gove broke the law by giving a contract to a communications agency run by long time associates of him...


Backscratchers.

Yeah, but if you fill the newspapers up with crap about students at Oxford university taking down a picture of the Queen this will get overlooked by the masses.

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Yeah, but if you fill the newspapers up with crap about students at Oxford university taking down a picture of the Queen this will get overlooked by the masses.

I bet they 'take a knee' each morning...

It's bullsgit Eggs. Divide and rule has never been more active than it is now. Real-time targeted ads for any demographic, if you have the money.

 

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I bet they 'take a knee' each morning...

It's bullsgit Eggs. Divide and rule has never been more active than it is now. Real-time targeted ads for any demographic, if you have the money.

 

It's what the majority of the voting people want, to be lied to by a class of people who've no idea about real life. The Labour Party really don't help themselves mind.

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Haha.

The worrying thing is, is that Gove is double pally with Cummings and his wife works for Murdoch inc.

The other contender is Jeremy Hunt, he's positioned himself on the side of 'science' through all this, which is quite tragic as his main cock-up as Health Secretary was ignoring the science to such an extent that doctors went on strike!

We're stuffed. There is no viable opposition.

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