OT: What a fair and equitable country we live in ... NOT

[drillerpie]

"Coordinated across all industrialised nations" will not be an easy job to do.

I agree.

[M1cksut]

The Guardian has a reasonable article on whether raising the rates of tax would be a good idea.

Certainly pre Thatcher top rates of 83% didn't work too well.

nhttps://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/jan/07/would-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-70-per-cent-tax-proposal-work-in-uk

can we once and for all nail the lie of 83% income tax rates?
it was ONLY 83% of UNEARNED income over £100,000 per annum.
so, if you had a few squillion in the bank, for instance, and you received over £100,000 in interest, THAT amount over £100,000 was taxed at 83%.
no working man ever paid that, and only the stupidly rich, (jagger, mccartney and some posh toffs like the duke of westminster etc did, but its not like it left them short, is it?).

[jackal2]

Jeremy Corbyn net wealth is approx £3million....a truly hypocritical Marxist.

Well, yes, there is that!

It's a bit like that Pulp song isn't it? Corbyn wants to live like common people, but still he'll never get it right, because if he's laying in bed at night, watching roaches climb the wall, if he calls his bank manager can stop it all.

[Bohinen]

Well, yes, there is that!

It's a bit like that Pulp song isn't it? Corbyn wants to live like common people, but still he'll never get it right, because if he's laying in bed at night, watching roaches climb the wall, if he calls his bank manager can stop it all.

I would have thought you might have more intelligence than to just glibly accept that figure as fact.

Maybe your right wing side got the better of you there.

[Bohinen]

can we once and for all nail the lie of 83% income tax rates?
it was ONLY 83% of UNEARNED income over £100,000 per annum.
so, if you had a few squillion in the bank, for instance, and you received over £100,000 in interest, THAT amount over £100,000 was taxed at 83%.
no working man ever paid that, and only the stupidly rich, (jagger, mccartney and some posh toffs like the duke of westminster etc did, but its not like it left them short, is it?).

I prefer you when you don't mention football.

[BigFatPie]

Well, yes, there is that!

It's a bit like that Pulp song isn't it? Corbyn wants to live like common people, but still he'll never get it right, because if he's laying in bed at night, watching roaches climb the wall, if he calls his bank manager can stop it all.

He would only be a hypocrite of course if he introduced high tax rates for wealthy people and then somehow didn’t pay those rates himself.

Reactionaries are really f00king thick.

[TheBlackHorse]

... ah, the politics of envy ...

[drillerpie]

So if you're rich and are in favour of redistributing wealth you're a hypocrite, of you're poor and in favour of redistributing wealth you're envious.

Can't really win can they?

[Trickytreesreds]

So if you're rich and are in favour of redistributing wealth you're a hypocrite, of you're poor and in favour of redistributing wealth you're envious.

Can't really win can they?

Driller, you're a sensible bloke. The point he's making is that tax should be paid evenly by everyone at the rates set.
There is a huge disparity in this country where big corporations evade it. (Amazon/Google/Coffee rip offs etc)
I find these outrageous as they are huge amounts.

Fat head blamed the Tories, but isn't just them is it?
You seem to believe that Labour is the answer?
Well if history alone is used, it isn't. They have a record of tax evasion as well.
I pumped this into the search engine and guess what came up first?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ofits-last-ye/

So no, I'm not having that. It sounds just like a vote winner, like free university fees. In practice? You're having a laugh.

[TheBlackHorse]

... first of all, who are 'they'?
Secondly, if you have ferrel parents
bringing up - or not bringing up, more accurately - ferrel children you perpetuate a generation which is unambitious, selfish and ignorant of what is needed in today's world. Being kind, let's call them unfortunate. Until our so-called educational elite can teach children there is more to life than learning about the benefit system we will remain as we are ... forced to retain a system which provides hand-outs, paid for, sometimes begrudgingly, by those who can.