dpb

you simply cannot run a country properly if people don't pay tax

Dingdongler

That is true but what makes you think that the people of this country don't pay enough tax?

All the individual high earners I know pay a lot of tax, yes they are still much better off than the lowest socioeconomic class.

The Tories did actually increase taxes on the better off, the highest rate was only reduced to 45% rather than the 40% it was prior to Gordon Brown's rather cynical increase to 50%.

NI contributions increased, the personal allowance starts to disappear above £100k, pension tax relief was reduced, total pension pot allowance drastically reduced, additional 3% stamp on second homes, stamp duty on high value homes significantly increased ie 12% on homes above £1.5 million and the mortgage tax relief on BTL more or less gone.

These are all the increases that have taken place in the last few years. So Corbyn and his buddies may have convinced the electorate that the cause of every problem is that the better off don't pay their fair share of tax but thats not actually true.

I don't know any CEOs of major corporations so perhaps there is room to improve the corporation take.

I also don't know any oligarchs so perhaps they aren't paying enough tax either.

dpb

I was actually meaning Greece !

then again , as you were

guinnessman2001

Corbyn as prime minister would have devastating consequences on this country.

His promise of a £10 hourly minimum wage was certainly one of the reasons the under 25's voted for him.
It would never work in practice, assuming the minimum wage is currently £7 an hour, all that would happen is employers would shed jobs to compensate for the extra wages they would be forced to pay.
Unemployment would rocket.

Although never publically admitting it he is determined to abolish Trident.
It may be a bit hypothetical but what happens when the fat boy with the funny haircut starts threatening to launch missiles in our direction?

Maybe Corbyn thinks he can rationalise with the diabetic despot.

Also I see his slimeball pal McDonnel is trying to score political points today over the tower fire tragedy, what an utter c**t of a person.

Martin2005

Broadly I agree with you.


However, all that stuff was said (about rocketing unemployment) when the minimum wage was first introduced, it never happened then, and it probably won't happen now.

dpb

£10 an hour for 16 y/o is straight mad

David Lock

How about £1.00 per hour per O-Level until say 21 y/o

Might encourage them to do better at school?

David

Sad Weevil

iTrader: (1)

Which is probably why no one is proposing it. Labour manifesto pledges to increase minimum wage for age 18 and over to £10 ph by 2020.