How Depressing!

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Afternoon 123, hope you are keeping well. I agree with some the stuff you’re saying 123 and my main argument is really about targeting the super rich which you have given an example of.. i’m talking the 1% who are literally controlling and buying everything and squeezing everyone else out.. Gary’s Economics latest video talks about this https://youtu.be/g0lEbH2kEw8?si=zwdnBUgs0w9BI5cK

We need to stop offering foreign companies these golden handshakes, let them come in but play by our rules.. i get this isn’t going to attract them in the first place. If they want to sell to us, surely they have no choice?

There are so many ways we should be clawing back money.. Let’s take Uber and Deliveroo.. how much money do we think they extract from the UK? It’s a lot of money.. i’d like to see our government funding a british owned equivalent start up to counter act and ensure this money doesn’t leave the UK. Better here than abroad.. i know there’s be holes in my argument.. it’s just to give an idea what we should be doing and pandering to global corporations and 1%. I can go on for ages about this with you 123 and we’ll sure agree on matters.
I don’t think any of us here are on the 1%, simply because we wouldn’t be on here. Top income earners were both thinking of shouldn’t get a tax hike as you explain, it should be those from higher up.

Whatever happens middle earners 50 to 100K will be squeezed. You can’t always assume those in 1 million pound plus houses are loaded etc for council tax hikes - some may have less disposable income than someone living in a modest 200K house ie pensioners - big mortgage etc. It was the same principle when VAT was added to private school fees - were all parents wealthy that sent there kids to private schools? No of course not because some parents scraped every penny to give their kids a decent education as opposed to getting p issed in places like Magaluf! Some have priorities!

Many couldn’t give a s hit about Rachel’s black hole when the government waste billions on giving out universal credit like confetti - billions spent on illegals arriving whilst our homeless are on the streets and billions spent on foreign aid plus billions spent on Ukraine more so than most other NATO countries. Now there’s talk of doing away with the two child cap so this mainly will benefit even more claiming universal credit.

Other EU countries like Spain don’t waste billions on s hite as mentioned above. Even to receive benefits you have had to contribute to the system otherwise you get next to nothing. In our country even wealthy pensioners received the fuel allowance FFS and didn’t financially need it. You get free NHS prescriptions when your 60 so what a joke how this is not in sinc with the retirement age. So you could be 60 on 100 grand a year and getting free prescriptions FFS.

The whole system is laughable. After this Wednesday the Government will be hated even more if this is possible.

The high street is failing because of high rents and rates plus greedy councils hiking parking charges. Meanwhile companies like Amazon are shifting their accounts around and paying very little in taxation. For me any online business that turns over a certain amount ie 3 million should be hammered with an online tax so there’s a level playing field between high street and online.

As you say Reeves won’t last long and the gutless and spineless Starmer will soon follow.