deadcatbounce

The wealthy have the resources and access to professionals not to pay tax. So they don’t.

I agree that they should pay tax, but they don’t. It is how/what it is. Good luck with getting them to pay a wealth tax over and above.

There are two main things that seem to work:

1. Having taxes at low levels for everyone generally. The expense and hassle of untangling the last set of measures and re-tangling to avoiding low levels of tax simply isn’t worth it.
2. After a two or sometimes three generations, the wealth is frittered away by overindulged children, messed up childhoods and their access to drugs and alcohol in lieu of parents. Sometimes the children are so wealthy, well-educated and taught to wealth preserve that that doesn’t happen.

I’m sorry you’re living with that. COVID took my plumber neighbour out for three weeks every time and he was fairly fit. He had a hell of a time and went through it twice.

You’re at best very tangential to my point. I’m not disputing that COVID happened. Just that flu probably continued at some level, whereas the stats disagree. I can only conclude that all flu of late is, in fact, COVID; IANA specialist D.

Anything that attacks the respiratory system long term sucks. Breathing has been quite helpful to me during my life. YMMV.

You might have read that I wrote only the poor pay tax. There were no poor people within the 98% bands and high income/HNW people wouldn’t have paid it anyway.

Oh so the rich are completely different from the rich of yesterday year. I don’t think so. Drawing plenty of wealthy people in? I bet you’re going to say trickle-down wealth next, you know you want to. G’wan.

You know, of course, a person can voluntarily pay amounts to HMRC or other authorities whenever they like. They don’t have to wait for a request by the authority. The amount on their tax demand is a minimum value.

'Mercan?

Sorry. You won’t have guessed that the comment was tongue in cheek.

The ‘economist’ trained chancellor apparently was sick on the day they studied diminishing returns. And she has never met anyone who lived through the seventies like an early Gen X or older (I find that strange: most of us played with Lego extensively).

We went to the the IMF for 13% of GDP then, but it would be 100%+ of GDP now.

But yeah, you put the taxes up. Doesn’t really matter how much anymore.

Denis Healey (Chancellor at the time) later joked about “squeezing the rich until the pips squeak.” when marginal tax was 98%.

Meanwhile millionaires are leaving the UK in droves, the acknowledgement that ‘only the poor pay tax.’ has been a thing since the 18th century.

Apparently that bloke is still trying to teach Charlie how to put toothpaste on his toothbrush. Mate, he’s in his seventies, that opportunity for learning toothpaste has past.

Very keen on COVID here. All cases of flu disappeared during COVID years, and the COVID I had was far less debilitating than flu I have had.

IANA conspirator.

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I’m done with Asda.

• Useless apps that make things more and more difficult to do (substitution disabling).
• Face recognition scanning in-store.
• Useless IT that means American Express doesn’t work every other time I try to use it
• the substitutions so insane that half your delivery is returned.
• Websites so stuffed with trackers you can’t use it on Firefox.
• repeated demand for spot-checks making the scan job you did pointless. You might as well have put it though a till that are never open. Had only one spot check with Tesco ever.

And those are only the things I can think of offhand six months after I deleted their bullshit.

Enough. Fvck Asda.

Firms apparently launching anti ANPR face film.

SMDH in agreement. 😳

I felt sure that Stalin Starmer was going to nationalise water and other stuff. Or have we had an odd number of u-turns in the year he’s been fucking it up for our greater good?

Giving ownership of your basic needs to a foreign party. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? It’s not like foreign ownership of our electricity suppliers could be used to subsidise their domestic customers. Oh … wait …

Fair comment.

IANA developer at all. Mostly just keeping records of my dotfiles and odd bits I have playing with., and the experiments I try to run using branches. Sometimes I need a visual representation of the commits and hashes to make it easier to understand what I’m doing.

git is my only nemesis.

Strange that there’s no blue hair people here defending her.

Off topic: day-after-day with these kinds of posts and especially the replies, I need Reddit less and less. That’s a very good thing.

A bag of frozen peas.

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Thank-you. I am embarrassed to say that I was too lazy to look that up.

Thank-you kind person.

How many of those other countries modelled their constitutions on the British?

Why are you so focused on the job for life rather than the job that they (used to) do of rejecting ridiculous bills and clauses?

These days the Lords and HoC don’t carry out their functions but not for the reasons that you suggest. It’s filled with useless fill-yer-boots cronies top to bottom, like that Bra woman and her PPI company or that twenty two year old that Boris elevated for no obvious reason or because she was a puppet.

I had qualifications in both LSE and the NYSE. I can tell you a normal person wasn’t handicapped by the regulations in the US. However, with freedom does come responsibility for one’s actions.

Whenever someone says that there law is to protect:

• the children
• old people
• the vulnerable
• …

You know that it’s full of hidden shit.