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It's not a case of either or, we can do both.
If we taxed wealth rather than just earnings and spending, cut the inheritance tax allowance in half, levied a turnover tax on the multi-national digital companies that reduce their UK profits by neat accounting tricks, leave Corporation Tax at 20% instead of dropping it to 18%, built a sovereign wealth fund by levying windfall taxes on utility monopolies (& BT) that make more than £1Bn profit, etc.. then we could do both.
We just need to get rid of this current bunch of incompetents that thought austerity, cuts and decimating public services would work.
If we taxed wealth rather than just earnings and spending, cut the inheritance tax allowance in half, levied a turnover tax on the multi-national digital companies that reduce their UK profits by neat accounting tricks, leave Corporation Tax at 20% instead of dropping it to 18%, built a sovereign wealth fund by levying windfall taxes on utility monopolies (& BT) that make more than £1Bn profit, etc.. then we could do both.
We just need to get rid of this current bunch of incompetents that thought austerity, cuts and decimating public services would work.
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It's not a case of either or, we can do both.
If we taxed wealth rather than just earnings and spending, cut the inheritance tax allowance in half, levied a turnover tax on the multi-national digital companies that reduce their UK profits by neat accounting tricks, leave Corporation Tax at 20% instead of dropping it to 18%, built a sovereign wealth fund by levying windfall taxes on utility monopolies (& BT) that make more than £1Bn profit, etc.. then we could do both.
We just need to get rid of this current bunch of incompetents that thought austerity, cuts and decimating public services would work.
If we taxed wealth rather than just earnings and spending, cut the inheritance tax allowance in half, levied a turnover tax on the multi-national digital companies that reduce their UK profits by neat accounting tricks, leave Corporation Tax at 20% instead of dropping it to 18%, built a sovereign wealth fund by levying windfall taxes on utility monopolies (& BT) that make more than £1Bn profit, etc.. then we could do both.
We just need to get rid of this current bunch of incompetents that thought austerity, cuts and decimating public services would work.
I agree tax needs to be sorted out but it's not as simple as just raising it.
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It's not a case of either or, we can do both.
If we taxed wealth rather than just earnings and spending, cut the inheritance tax allowance in half, levied a turnover tax on the multi-national digital companies that reduce their UK profits by neat accounting tricks, leave Corporation Tax at 20% instead of dropping it to 18%, built a sovereign wealth fund by levying windfall taxes on utility monopolies (& BT) that make more than £1Bn profit, etc.. then we could do both.
We just need to get rid of this current bunch of incompetents that thought austerity, cuts and decimating public services would work.
If we taxed wealth rather than just earnings and spending, cut the inheritance tax allowance in half, levied a turnover tax on the multi-national digital companies that reduce their UK profits by neat accounting tricks, leave Corporation Tax at 20% instead of dropping it to 18%, built a sovereign wealth fund by levying windfall taxes on utility monopolies (& BT) that make more than £1Bn profit, etc.. then we could do both.
We just need to get rid of this current bunch of incompetents that thought austerity, cuts and decimating public services would work.
Just because it's been this way for a few years doesn't mean it can't be changed to a more equitable system.
You cannot pick up property or land and take it somewhere else. Utility companies and BT can't decided that they no longer going to supply the home market and I'm not going to move my firm abroad because corporation tax is held at 20% (it's already dropped from high 20s) instead of being lower again.
It's entirely up to us to choose a government that see an alternative to endless cuts.
You cannot pick up property or land and take it somewhere else. Utility companies and BT can't decided that they no longer going to supply the home market and I'm not going to move my firm abroad because corporation tax is held at 20% (it's already dropped from high 20s) instead of being lower again.
It's entirely up to us to choose a government that see an alternative to endless cuts.
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SSW, the Socialists in france were going to do all that and more under Hollande.
How much of it ACTUALLY got done once the backlash started, do you think?
He became THE most hated president France has ever had...and that's really saying something, considering the troupe of spinelss socialist sponges they have elected over the years.
How much of it ACTUALLY got done once the backlash started, do you think?
He became THE most hated president France has ever had...and that's really saying something, considering the troupe of spinelss socialist sponges they have elected over the years.
Yes. He was a total failure as a politician. He couldn't sell a vision or keep his d1ck in his pants.
There's nothing I have mentioned above that will affect the majority of the voting public (high value London property owner excepted). The bulk of taxes I've proposed are corporate and wealth based.
And as we're going to have to fund the Brexit bill, a whole swathe of new regulatory bodies, the existing deficit, a still rising national debt and another million 75+ year olds over the next decade then the UK's priorities have to be economic growth and increased tax revenues.
This government doesn't seem to be capable of the achieving the one or minded to do the other.
There's nothing I have mentioned above that will affect the majority of the voting public (high value London property owner excepted). The bulk of taxes I've proposed are corporate and wealth based.
And as we're going to have to fund the Brexit bill, a whole swathe of new regulatory bodies, the existing deficit, a still rising national debt and another million 75+ year olds over the next decade then the UK's priorities have to be economic growth and increased tax revenues.
This government doesn't seem to be capable of the achieving the one or minded to do the other.
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It's not a case of either or, we can do both.
If we taxed wealth rather than just earnings and spending, cut the inheritance tax allowance in half, levied a turnover tax on the multi-national digital companies that reduce their UK profits by neat accounting tricks, leave Corporation Tax at 20% instead of dropping it to 18%, built a sovereign wealth fund by levying windfall taxes on utility monopolies (& BT) that make more than £1Bn profit, etc.. then we could do both.
We just need to get rid of this current bunch of incompetents that thought austerity, cuts and decimating public services would work.
If we taxed wealth rather than just earnings and spending, cut the inheritance tax allowance in half, levied a turnover tax on the multi-national digital companies that reduce their UK profits by neat accounting tricks, leave Corporation Tax at 20% instead of dropping it to 18%, built a sovereign wealth fund by levying windfall taxes on utility monopolies (& BT) that make more than £1Bn profit, etc.. then we could do both.
We just need to get rid of this current bunch of incompetents that thought austerity, cuts and decimating public services would work.
a politician was once asked whether he knew how to solve the problems, he simply replied
"yes off course, we know what to do, we just don't know how to get re-elected after we have done it"