Making the news today....

[doobin]

11 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Yes, but there are many on minimum wage who don't get benefits. A single person with no children would get no benefits which they would have to make up by doing overtime, which means they would pay more tax.

 

The fact still remains, companies are making huge profits and we are paying for it.

Yup. Add to this the rise in 'zero hour' contracts and the gig economy- the employment figures look great, but in reality three part time jobs have replaced one full time, with benefits making up the rest.

[Steve Bullman]

Not just the energy companies ripping us off at the moment. A lot of these deserve jail time in my opinion  

 

Banks earn billions by failing to pass on benefits of rising UK interest rates

WWW.THETIMES.CO.UK

---

The biggest high street banks have made billions of pounds through the Bank of England’s latest rate rise but have not...

 

[sime42]

Parasites.

 

[GarethM]

Not made any better by the legal but dodgy sweet heart tax arrangements with all those tech companies.

 

Did the Irish ever actually bank that tax cheque the EU made them charge companies such as Microsoft etc ?.

[trigger_andy]

1 hour ago, eggsarascal said:

Yes, but there are many on minimum wage who don't get benefits. A single person with no children would get no benefits which they would have to make up by doing overtime, which means they would pay more tax.

 

The fact still remains, companies are making huge profits and we are paying for it.

In this scenario would they not get working tax credits? 

 

Anyway, we agree that its should be the corporations that should pay these people a proper wage so they they are not topped up by those who have gone out of their way to make a living for themselves. 

[GarethM]

In that case the only real solution is to increase the minimum wage.

[Johnsond]

49 minutes ago, sime42 said:

Parasites.

 

Come on42 realistically what on gods earth did you think was gonna be the long term repercussions of, BBL and associated defaults, Furlough schemes to pay people to stay at home, self employed grants etc etc never mind the billions wasted on useless PPE,Testing and quite frankly vaccines of to say the least dubious effectiveness 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️come on actually think about what was done here for a minute 😞.  What a lot of that madness you backed achieved was to allow these so called parasites to get back into a position ( or redistribute billions) where they can increase their profits at a monumental scale. I’m pretty sure a few on here warned of the folly of what was being done and again I’m pretty sure a good few more on here defended it all absolutely wholeheartedly and ridiculed anyone whom questioned a single thing “ tin hat being the favourite “didn’t they 42. I really wish there had been a opt in opt out choice where you can play the mad game if you are terrified and believe the bollocks but at the end you have to pick up the tab, whereas if you don’t buy into it and just go about your business, possibly catch covid and get on with things as the overwhelming majority did, you are exempted from the mess and costs that must surely follow 2 years of utter utter stupidity. 

[eggsarascal]

40 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

In this scenario would they not get working tax credits? 

 

Anyway, we agree that its should be the corporations that should pay these people a proper wage so they they are not topped up by those who have gone out of their way to make a living for themselves. 

Nah, they would get nothing. That aside, it's proof trickle down economics doesn't work.

[Retired Climber]

29 minutes ago, GarethM said:

In that case the only real solution is to increase the minimum wage.

That would make absolutely no difference. Minimum wage increases do not act upon an economy in isolation. 

[trigger_andy]

6 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Nah, they would get nothing. That aside, it's proof trickle down economics doesn't work.

Not sure about that. I know quite a few with an ok income who employ cleaners.