Economic Outlook: Cut tax to make UK a magnet for the world

[Freamon]

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While we were pissing all the oil revenue up the wall, Norway had other ideas. The country is set for many years to come while we scrabble around trying to reduce how much we are STILL overspending compared to income.
Unbelievable incompetence.

Sadly the decision makers have no incentive whatsoever to plan further in advance than the next election in a maximum of 5 years time.

[DodgyAgent]

Sounds great, but also very expensive. I would argue that schools and teachers are already pretty good, and throwing vast sums of cash at them won't necessarily make them any better. The main reason certain groups of kids don't succeed at school is their home environment and parenting, not the school.

Schools and teachers are appalling in the public sector. To break kids away from poor parenting send them to boarding school. It worked for Harry Potter


Next time I'm unemployed I'll be robbing your house then. Hopefully in the process I won't injure you such that you can't work, because if I do, you won't be getting any disability benefits so you'll probably just starve. On the plus side, undertakers would get a nice boost to their incomes.

yep and in my world people like you who think society owes you a living will be out. The genuinely disabled will be looked after properly without being swamped by all the spongers like you.


So the state shouldn't provide any services at all? Privatisation of railways, water and energy supplies has been such a roaring success hasn't it...

could be worse, they could be run by the state. Having said that the government should be acting as a steward to ensure competition exists


Paying NI whilst they're working isn't enough I suppose.


I'm not sure there's enough fruit in East Anglia to keep them all busy. they can go and dig for coal in Poland then


You think a state run manufacturer would be able to compete with the chinese, when the workers are compelled to work there rather than choosing to? Sounds like an amusing way to burn vast sums of money for no benefit to me. Not sure when "the poor" will look for real jobs in this scheme, either.
well what do you suggest then?


A plan that's worked extremely well for Ireland.

low corporation tax was not the cause of Irelands problem was it?