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Inequality


AngryOfTuebrook
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1 hour ago, lifetime fan said:

 

Or an old favourite Tesco trick of building the supermarket and applying for planning permission retrospectively. 

They worked a brilliant number on Chatteris (just before they shat on Kirkby).  They built a new shop on the edge of town, against local opposition, especially because of the traffic impacts of a new roundabout that had to be built at the entrance.  They built the roundabout and the shop... then decided not to open it.  

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Good piece by John Oliver last night about the shitty working conditions at Amazon warehouses, rounded off with a clip of centi-billionaire Jeff Bezos saying that the only thing he could really think of to do with the amount of money that he has is space travel.

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On 29/06/2019 at 17:00, AngryofTuebrook said:

They worked a brilliant number on Chatteris (just before they shat on Kirkby).  They built a new shop on the edge of town, against local opposition, especially because of the traffic impacts of a new roundabout that had to be built at the entrance.  They built the roundabout and the shop... then decided not to open it.  

Chatteris in Cambridgeshire?

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3 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

That's the one.

 

Businesses affected include three good butchers, two fine chandlers an indoor pool and a first class cake shop.

I lived there for a while and recognise the area you describe. That building is an Aldi now. Totally out of character with the rest of the town.

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IPPR raising the mad/dangerous/Commie idea of taxing Capital Gains at the same rate as Income.

 

https://amp.ft.com/content/1db6edf0-d0a5-11e9-b018-ca4456540ea6?__twitter_impression=true

 

As Woody Guthrie said " The gambling man is rich and the working man is poor"; it's hard to see any moral or practical arguments in favour of lower rates for Capital Gains Tax than Income Tax and if it raises a few billion for essential services, then go for it. 

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"The current world population is 7,768,000,000. In 2012, £13,000,000,000,000 was stashed offshore by the global elite - equivalent to around £1,673 for every human alive today. It would take an Indian worker on state minimum wage (earning £0.22/hour) over 3.5 years to earn this"....

 

 

 

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Shame the Coronavirus couldn't just target these greedy twats

 

 

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On 03/03/2020 at 09:05, Stickman said:

 

 

"The current world population is 7,768,000,000. In 2012, £13,000,000,000,000 was stashed offshore by the global elite - equivalent to around £1,673 for every human alive today. It would take an Indian worker on state minimum wage (earning £0.22/hour) over 3.5 years to earn this"....

 

 

 

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Shame the Coronavirus couldn't just target these greedy twats

 

 

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And some of these are MPs who working class people voted for. We should never have evolved beyond the Amoeba stage as a species.

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28 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

Economist arguing that a proper wealth tax in the UK could raise in the ballpark of £174 billion a year.

 

I like that ballpark. 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/apr/22/wealth-tax-rise-could-raise-174bn-tackle-covid-19-expert-says

 

The fact they do very little to address this but the effort they put into universal basic income or hounding people.  We need change. We will go back to exactly how it has been if not worse.

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1 hour ago, Rico1304 said:

If you left the country for a better job/lifestyle is it inconceivable that the people who would benefit from leaving for a more favourable tax regime would do the same?  

All 60 million of us? The gap would just be filled by somebody else anyway. And very few have been leaving under any government in decades.

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13 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

All 60 million of us? The gap would just be filled by somebody else anyway. And very few have been leaving under any government in decades.

There’s an equation somewhere of the proportion of people who make up the tax revenue.  

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