Reply to: Tory DOOM™: Cars

[original PM]

Cars always got me laid. Let's face it not much else would...

Using your car to cruise for ladies of the night does not count really....

but....

[Lockhouse]

Maybe it is just as the millennials grow up and smell the (probably expensive) coffee that they realise spunking 300 notes a month on a shiny new golf they are never going to own is a tulip idea and it never got them laid anyway.

Just in the friend zone.

Cars always got me laid. Let's face it not much else would...

[Lockhouse]

With all the debt instruments they've invented to allow people to spend now what they hope to receive in the future, I'm surprised there isn't one to put a mortgage style charge on a pension for spending now, so could lease/buy a car paid from future pension payouts.

The attraction would be that (as with the original appeal of interest only mortgages) the current debt would reduce in real terms over a few decades, if we ever went back to non-'emergency' levels of interest rates and wage inflation that is.

Quite. I'm over 55 so I could take 25% tax free if I wanted to but that's not part of my strategy.

My point being (as I'm sure you knew), is that higher tax is not good for the overall economy.

[original PM]

Maybe it is just as the millennials grow up and smell the (probably expensive) coffee that they realise spunking 300 notes a month on a shiny new golf they are never going to own is a tulip idea and it never got them laid anyway.

Just in the friend zone.

[Hobosapien]

Dividend tax stopped me buying a new car this year. I put the money in my pension instead. I'm sure plenty of others did the same thing.

With all the debt instruments they've invented to allow people to spend now what they hope to receive in the future, I'm surprised there isn't one to put a mortgage style charge on a pension for spending now, so could lease/buy a car paid from future pension payouts.

The attraction would be that (as with the original appeal of interest only mortgages) the current debt would reduce in real terms over a few decades, if we ever went back to non-'emergency' levels of interest rates and wage inflation that is.

[Lockhouse]

Dividend tax stopped me buying a new car this year. I put the money in my pension instead. I'm sure plenty of others did the same thing.

[WTFH]

Nah, that job's taken....

Are you from Norfolk or the Isle of Wight? Your wife looks like she could be your twin sister.

[greenlake]

Do I Have to have to have Greenlake's babies now?

Nah, that job's taken....

[vetran]

You are a GOD!

Do I Have to have to have Greenlake's babies now?

[vetran]

AtW is an intern.

so you don't pay him and he takes any old tulip?

[greenlake]

AtW is an intern.

[northernladyuk]

that's no way to talk about your workers!

AtW is an intern.

[vetran]

Because the UK is full of cretins who are content to sleep on a semen stained sofa in a flat above an Aston kebab shop, as long as they can write off a ghastly 'luxury' car every year.

that's no way to talk about your workers!

[northernladyuk]

Why can they build more cars (that depreciate) and can't build enough houses?

Because the UK is full of cretins who are content to sleep on a semen stained sofa in a flat above an Aston kebab shop, as long as they can write off a ghastly 'luxury' car every year.

[WTFH]

Why can they build more cars (that depreciate) and can't build enough houses?

They can build enough houses, just the current government isn't interested in making them available to people who need housing, instead being happy that they are sold on vacant to the highest foreign bidder. (probably Jeremy Corbyn's fault)