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  1. GarethM
    Plus the whole taxing fuel argument, has one huge problem. Jet fuel isn't taxed, so everyone is so obsessed about car emissions when an A380 can carry 320,000 litres tax free!.
  2. GarethM
    Taxation is the price we pay for a civilized society. Some may argue we don't get what we pay for on that front. I've said it before, we need to focus on the schemes that allows a holes like Hamilton to avoid tax on private jets and such.
  3. GarethM
    I don't think anyone wants an American style tax system squaredy.
  4. GarethM
    Whilst the pre budget system wasn't perfect it did incentives earning/working more. I think the real problem is around schemes such as ir35 and such. It should be a level playing field, encouraging you to earn more whilst paying a fair tax.
  5. GarethM
    You can't just say tax the rich, well Mr HMRC the new rule book just says tax the rich, anyone disagree is like asking to drown a puppy. Whilst we should all pay a fair share, with those in the lofty super rich paying most. It does seem like everyone glossed over the taxing large corporations and using legal but creative tax agreements to pay close to sweet fa. Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook etc etc. Did the Irish government ever cash that Facebook fine ?.
  6. GarethM
    Ah but labour have Diane growing another magic money tree, it was growing in one of her odd shoes. But it's now in one of Kier's old wellies.
  7. GarethM
    It's just me, myself and I 🙂
  8. GarethM
    The chinglish manuals are already bad enough!.
  9. GarethM
    They keep on making digs at Liz and her budget, yeah the whole month she was in charge did so much damage Other than the banking speculation and damage done by rishi and his former banking pals.
  10. GarethM
    I'm sure my pension in the decades ahead will just about cover a fika once a month
  11. GarethM
    Trawling more like it, moby dick off the starboard bow
  12. GarethM
    I'm sure your the only person who can sit alone in a dark room and cause an argument. It's been said several time even by other people, not paying new people crap wages is the single only way to attract anyone into any industry. You just choose to keep asking the same question and not accepting those coming in are not getting rewarded.
  13. GarethM
    Did you actually read my post, salary numbers. I couldn't care how much you've saved or invested, we were talking about why your industry can't get new staff. But no we want a pissing contest, don't we.
  14. GarethM
    Well instead of casting doubt why don't you adjust the numbers accordingly and we can all see how horrendously unattractive they actually are for anyone other than you!.
  15. GarethM
    Do let's breakdown what little information. You = 45-50k no weekends Experienced = 40k two weekends New staff = 20-25k at a guess ?. So as a new employee I could expect to go from 20-25 1st year to 30k second?. There is a reason why it's not attractive and I would bet the starting salary is around 16-18k. Why would a kid want the promise of cake tomorrow when it's a chocolate cake of human poo at 18k ?. You'd get more in the army.
  16. GarethM
    And that was your arsey reply to me asking if 40 was the starting salary. You can't just harpoon an industry saying you can't get staff without knowing what they start at.
  17. GarethM
    So what is the starting salary then!. You can't just say we can't get the staff without knowing the starting salary. It'd have to be say circa 28k to attract new people.
  18. GarethM
    But is 40k the starting salary for someone relatively new. Whilst they aren't going to attract experienced people, they will get new people in.
  19. GarethM
    Instead of trying to be argumentive, you could have just asked that couldn't you. The simple answer is you'll be encouraged to reduce your hours and new people will come into the industry, providing people don't financially take the piss which is what they have been doing, as you so eloquently put it you took advantage and the young are going to have to pay for it. A pension pot is not a savings account, it's given to you whilst working people replenish the pot.
  20. GarethM
    How about actually ask a question, seeing as it was a discussion.
  21. GarethM
    And do you think 90% of companies would match what you've paid in today?. I would have been laughed out the office, warehouse, carpark and then they would have rang my mobile to laugh at me all the way home. Every employer I've worked for has been SME, they even grudged paying the absolute minimum.
  22. GarethM
    Let's do fag packet maths, 18-55 = 37 years working For the sake of argument you've bought your home and a new car before retirement. You'll want say 1500 a month until you die at say 85. 55-85 = 30 years 1500x12 = 18k 18k x 30 = 540k required.
  23. GarethM
    Seeing we were discussing non arb types retiring early my comments were pretty accurate. You chucked in the grenade of you've paid in so I can retire early, but gave zero reference to how much you're paid which equates to how much you've paid in If you asking am I paid 25, nope.
  24. GarethM
    Was that a question or a statement.
  25. GarethM
    The reality must be 40k+ a year manual jobs since they were 25, your not going to retire early if your on 25k.

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