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BREAKING NEWS; clever people don't pay too much tax!

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    #21
    Originally posted by PAH View Post
    All this 'grass is greener' abroad is bollocks.

    Show me a country that is a true utopia
    Thailand? Nice nice people, amazing food, oooh the food, did I mention the food was good?

    Norway? a colleague who lives out in Bergen now pays less tax than I do in the UK. The services are 2nd to nowit, no national debt...
    "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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      #22
      Originally posted by AtW View Post
      Tax is one of the ways to control inflation - when people got no disposable income they can't bid silly prices for stuff they want.

      Well, unless banks start loaning huge amounts, which causes rapid asset inflation.
      Tax IS inflation. It makes everything you buy more expensive in relation to the amount of work that you do to pay for it and gives less revenue to the chappy who makes the stuff.
      And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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        #23
        Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
        Thailand? Nice nice people, amazing food, oooh the food, did I mention the food was good?

        Norway? a colleague who lives out in Bergen now pays less tax than I do in the UK. The services are 2nd to nowit, no national debt...
        Isn't it about 8 quid a pint in Norway?
        ǝןqqıʍ

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          #24
          Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
          Isn't it about 8 quid a pint in Norway?
          And £12 for a glass of wine. Or you can buy a bottle at the Vine store and take it with you for about the same price, a good bottle too...
          "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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            #25
            stop paying the chavs to watch tv and breed

            cut the public sector in half

            legalise pot

            bring back the death penalty

            Now where is the party with that in their manifesto - cos that would reduce the tax burden and increase the countries wealth




            i reckon anyway

            can I count on your votes?

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              #26
              Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
              Isn't it about 8 quid a pint in Norway?
              A policy I with Scotty land would adopt, I've still yet to see my first obese Norwegian...
              "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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                #27
                yet too see a happy one too!

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
                  A policy I with Scotty land would adopt, I've still yet to see my first obese Norwegian...
                  Why not just have a minimum price for alcohol, with the price of all booze below that to be propped up with duties? That way I can go on enjoying my Gevrey Chambertin while not mugging old people or stealing people’s cars, but the chavs won’t be able to afford their special brew? Make the case for regressive taxation!

                  Ah no, bad idea, that would encourage chavs to nick more expensive stuff, for which they would have to venture into expensive neighbourhoods where I might have to shoot them, thus getting me a criminal record, which might cause problems in pre-contract screening.
                  And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by zeitghost
                    And the Swedes aren't much better if Wallender is anything to go by.
                    Call me peurile, but everytime I see the name Wallender, I think of all those Swedish birds, and table-ending them. Everytime I see a big boobied Swede I think 'I'd Tablender'.


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                    ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
                      WTF did Brownsnot expect? Charge the smartest people in society 50% tax and they find ways of avoiding it. Same here in Holland; the top rate of tax is 52%, but almost nobody pays it; those who do only pay it for the sake of getting the 52% tax relief on mortgage interest and pension premiums and the rest avoid it by either;
                      - working less hours
                      - paying themselves dividends (sometimes in a low corporation tax country)
                      - or artificially bumping up business costs to avoid making too much profit (staying in the Amstel hotel for the last few weeks of the year if it looks like the business might be too profitable)

                      Close down those last two options and I’ll either work less or f**k off somewhere else.

                      When will politicians and their voters understand that people are simply not prepared to pay 50% tax, with the possible exception of Swedes who get it all back in subsidized houses, lots of paid holidays and cheap volvos?

                      http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7011728.ece
                      This isn't about increasing tax revenue. It's about encouraging rich people to voluntarily work less and spend more on leisure. This has a two fold benefit of magnifying the trickle down effect and reducing the risk of the best and brightest burning out prematurely, ensuring they can contribute in the long term.

                      It really upsets me that everyone thinks our politicians are dumb. They are clearly ten steps ahead of the rest of us and only playing dumb.
                      While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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