I'm not saying that it is. What i'm arguing is, that we have a government who could not manage things any more incompetently and disastorously than they are.

I'll rehash James O'Brien on LBC. How can a government cut disability welfare because there's no money, but also cut corporation tax? How can you possibly justify that? The thing that concerns me, is that even as the IFS, traditionally a conservative economic analyser, come out and say that the tax system is ludicrously weighed in favour of the rich, when Corbyn suggests even a moderate tax rise for those over 100k, he is shouted down as a communist. And who are leading the shouting? Of course, those who own the media, who all sit happily in that top 1000!

If punk ever happened I'd be preaching the law, instead of listenin to Lydon lecture BBC4

Of course Adele works in one of the most inefficient systems of business known to man, which tends towards a 10% successful return rate (its just that 10% generates huge revenues to cover the 90% of losses).

You do have to wonder though why people who have such vast incomes, are so worried about small tax hikes that they'll threaten to leave the UK (they won't - Tax rates in countries like the US are so favourable by comparison they'd have left long ago if that was their true intention.

Its like celebrities who threaten to leave the UK if x happens. They never do, because their income is so tied to income generated from UK investments.

Sure a big hike, might have an emigration affect, but something reasonable won't. Its also worth remembering that taxation revenue creates jobs as well - within the civil services - and far more efficiently than within the music industry.

Taxation needs to be reviewed, and we as a population need to stop thinking in terms of short term political goals, and instead in terms of what we will fund with revenue, our priorities and how much the country needs to effectively provide efficient services to everyone - and how to best generate that revenue.

Pragmatically, not ideologically. It always astonishes me that people can be so 'Nationalistic' but then object to taxation which is the life blood by which any nation operates.

Its like the US and its massive defence spending, but object hate of any kind of health care system. The first step to protecting your people, is to protect them from the likely threats and those are health (in truth, its all about US governments plowing huge amounts of money into friendly companies which if they were called subsidies would be criminal)

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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I'm interested to know in what way the case for repeal "remains very strong".

As Ricky Gervais points out, imagine a group of blokes setting a pack dogs on a terrified wild animal for a laugh. Now imagine they're posh and on horseback.

May should be concentrating on reversing planned cuts to Education or the funding crisis in the NHS rather than sorting things out so her toff mates can torture wild animals for fun.

Where is your evidence for this? What do you even mean by this?

I mean much of the wealth that these people possess was earned outside of the UK. Therefore just blaming the UK tax system for inequality kinda misses the point. The issue regarding how personal wealth and business profits are taxed is something that no single government can address. Perfectly illustrated by those who are concerned that we may become a tax haven post Brexit

Evidence? Here you go

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Key word being 'all.'

Labour implementing all the policies they want to and probably would is what everyone fears.

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