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Previously on "Minister wants supertax on Britain’s top earners"
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Originally posted by Turion View Posthttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/mon...cle4547848.ece
With defeat looming New Liebor is shedding it's skin. Apparently they want this tax on the rich to help the middle classes. But aren't the middle classes the ones that this lot have been milking for the last 11 yrs, to pay for their crazy social experiments?
Lewis points to families who take two holidays a year, belong to private gyms and eat in restaurants, but struggle to pay soaring bills, as the group in need of help.
“If, as a result of the current economic situation, the only way to help hard-pressed middle-class families is to ask the highest earners to pay more, then serious consideration should be given to that,” he writes.
Tax would of course be higher under the Tories !!!!
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Originally posted by expat View PostYes but that time they forgot to put exit taxes in place, to protect the government's revenue stream
I remember hearing about the 98 tax rates too as a child.
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Wasn't this sort of mindless rubbish tried, tested, and shown to be crap, by ... er... Labour in the dark and neolithic 70s?
The super rich will just toddle off to Switzerland/wherever and pop back home for Xmas, etc.
It's the political equivalent of a desperate prayer.
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Originally posted by chris79 View PostYeah all that will happen is the super rich just move abroad.. I'm sure I heard my dad tell me this happened before the 70s or something?? When tax was 98%, might just be a fairy tale but sure there's some similar story which was reality.
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Yeah all that will happen is the super rich just move abroad.. I'm sure I heard my dad tell me this happened before the 70s or something?? When tax was 98%, might just be a fairy tale but sure there's some similar story which was reality.
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Originally posted by Diver View PostWhat happened to labor's pledge of a classless society?
Tax the upper class to help the middle class to help the upper class to screw the working class to help cover the reduced income of the upper class confused.con
Time that Brown and his cronies got the boot methinks
Mailman
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but Liebour CAN help here...
You seen that program about dodgy restaurants. These middle class restaurant eating types need protecting! I think Darlings got an idea for this:
More taxes on eating out. That should help these poor souls, just like we're helping those feral kids, binge drinkers, and middle class wine sozzelers by increasing alcohol tax.
Hmme....how can we help all those poor motorists stuck in traffic jams...
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Originally posted by thunderlizard View PostWhat the heck? When did private gym membership, 2 holidays a year and eating in restaurants become a basic human right?
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Interesting that governments with lower tax bands raise more in taxes. But Liebour never lets facts confuse their thinking.
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What the heck? When did private gym membership, 2 holidays a year and eating in restaurants become a basic human right?
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This is an excellent idea.
It should start at 75% of all income above 1 standard deviation from average earnings and 98% at 2 standard deviations.
If the Darling/Brown would hold an emergency budget and introduce that measure we would all be better off.......
...... because the government would fall within the week.
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Originally posted by Turion View Posthttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/mon...cle4547848.ece
With defeat looming New Liebor is shedding it's skin. Apparently they want this tax on the rich to help the middle classes. But aren't the middle classes the ones that this lot have been milking for the last 11 yrs, to pay for their crazy social experiments?
Lewis points to families who take two holidays a year, belong to private gyms and eat in restaurants, but struggle to pay soaring bills, as the group in need of help.
“If, as a result of the current economic situation, the only way to help hard-pressed middle-class families is to ask the highest earners to pay more, then serious consideration should be given to that,” he writes.
Tax the upper class to help the middle class to help the upper class to screw the working class to help cover the reduced income of the upper class confused.con
Time that Brown and his cronies got the boot methinks
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