paulr

I read this the other day......

"Suppose, every evening, 10 men go out for dinner. The bill for all 10 comes to £100.
They decide to split it the way we pay our taxes, as follows:

The first 4 men (the poorest) paid nothing
The fifth man paid £1
The sixth £3
The seventh £7
The eighth £12
The ninth £18
The tenth (richest) £59

All 10 were quite happy with the arrangement, until one day the restaurant owner said, ”Since you are all such good customers, I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily meal by £20”
So now dinner only costs £80.
The group still want to pay their bill by the same calculation method.

The first 4 are unaffected, they still eat for free. The remainder have to divvy up the £20.
20 divided by 3 = £3.33, so they couldn’t subtract that from each person because 5 and 6 would be paid to eat. It was suggested that each man’s bill should be reduced by roughly the same percentage.
The fifth man now paid £0 – 100% saving
The sixth £2 – 33% saving
The seventh £5 – 28% saving
The eighth £9 – 25% saving
The ninth £14 – 22% saving
The tenth (richest) £49 – 16% saving

Each of the 6 were better off and the 4 still ate for free. But outside the restaurant the men began to compare their savings.
“I only got £1 out of the £20 said number 6” and pointed to number 10 “ he got £10”.
“That’s right” said number 5 “I only saved £1 too, it’s not fair that he got 10 times more than me”
“That’s right said number 7, “why should he get £10 when I only got £2? The rich get all the luck!”
The first 4 then said “Wait a minute, we didn’t get anything. This system exploits the poor”
The 9 men then turned on number 10 and beat him up.

The next night number 10 didn’t come to dinner. The 9 sat down and ate without him, but when the bill came, they didn’t have enough money between them to even pay for half of it.

That’s how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the biggest savings from tax reductions. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy and they just might not show up at the table any more."

..the other outcome is if you reduce the bill by £10 the quality of the meal go's down,the guy who's at the top can spend his savings on "extra's",something those at the bottom cant.Its not just about savings,its also about the quality of the service.

Brendan Hughes

Tax cuts for the rich - so THAT'S why he was just re-elected!

Clears it all up, now!

NotoriousREV

Exactly how is the rich man not going to "turn up at the table"? Last I heard, paying taxes was pretty much mandatory.

AndyC_772

iTrader: (2)

He goes to another restaurant, and dines with new friends who split the bill more evenly...

milo

he goes eat in a different country where the bill would be a lot cheaper for him.

Tiggs

what would he want to eat with poor scum for anyway? Rich man sounds better off out of it!

NotoriousREV

Anyone care to name a country where he'll pay less tax, earn the same money and have an equal (or better) standard of living?

AndyC_772

iTrader: (2)

Isle of Man would be my first choice - but I think you're missing the point.

NotoriousREV

The weather rules out the IOM - I don't think I am missing the point, though. The above is a silly analogy made for Americans who actually beleive it's unfair when a tax cut saves a high earning person more money, something I've never actually heard an Englishman say (probably because our tax only ever goes up, lol). It's aimed squarely at those who belive the rich should be taxed harder. i.e. it's aimed at the "hard of understanding", all IMHO, of course.

Diesel

Now if they didnt tax petrol so hard I might understand the concept of 'eating out'. Optimax, rice & water me...

marky1

I'm moving to Gibraltar next month for exactly this reason

paulr

Until the day when all the "scum" (your words not mine) instead of walking past his retaurant decide to go in and beat the crap out of him,or put him up against a wall and shoot him.

Carter

Well, you see, that's why they're scum. Instead of working harder to earn more, they are happy to blame others for being better off, and in fact to resort to violence to express, in their own inarticulate way, their grinding misery at their horrible prole existences.


I hate pikeys, me.