The Political Thread

[JOE SOAP]

...just like in the Irish Republic...

Ah the Irish Republic...  What ever happened to those guys?

Such a great example, Gombeen Nation.

[Roger Godpleton]

I like how his favourite phrase is the same as Timmy McVeigh's.

[Gonk]

George Osborne is poised to slash the top rate of income tax from 50p to 40p in next week's budget in a dramatic move that will delight business and the Tory right, but risks reinforcing the Conservatives' reputation as protectors of the super-rich.

Baloney, they should be dropping it to 20% at most!  You should have a flat tax code in the U.K. (just like in the Irish Republic), with everyone - and I mean EVERYONE - who receives earned income having to pay tax on it; no exceptions, no excuses, no exemptions, period!  The lowest earners would pay a flat rate of 5%, the middle income earners would pay 10%, and the highest earners would pay the aforementioned 20% flat rate, with the corporation tax dropped to 10%, and the elimination of the capital gains/dividends tax and the horrendously socialistic inheritance tax, plus ALL benefits means-tested, those who wish to opt out of paying national insurance contributions and purchase their own private healthcare premiums can do so, drop VAT to 5% across the board, and on top of all that, you drastically reduce overall government spending to pre-1997 levels... you do all that, the U.K. economy would take off like a rocket and the deficit would be paid off within a decade!!!

a dramatic move that will delight business and the Tory right, but risks reinforcing the Conservatives' reputation as protectors of the super-rich.

You mean the people who actually open and expand businesses, create thousands of jobs, sign the paycheques, and generally keep the entire economy afloat, you mean those people...?

Which category do you think you belong to, just out of interest?

[The Legendary Shark]

Of course, if the government would start creating its own money instead of buying privately created money, then everybody's tax would be cut to less than 2%. In fact, income tax, inheritance tax and possibly even VAT could be done away with altogether.

But, they'd rather buy privately created money and screw you for the interest.

http://www.positivemoney.org.uk/how-banks-create-money/

[Beaky Smoochies]

Which category do you think you belong to, just out of interest?

Probably lower middle-income, never really gave it much thought to be honest, fonky dude...

Of course, if the government would start creating its own money instead of buying privately created money, then everybody's tax would be cut to less than 2%. In fact, income tax, inheritance tax and possibly even VAT could be done away with altogether.
But, they'd rather buy privately created money and screw you for the interest.

Or permanently dissolve the Bank of England as a national central bank, Thomas Jefferson warned about the dangers of a central bank in managing national finances back in the late 18th/early 19th century, and God bless 'im, he was right...

[Gonk]

Well I'm so poor I couldn't even give you the time of the day, or pay attention.

[Beaky Smoochies]

Well I'm so poor I couldn't even give you the time of the day, or pay attention.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

I think I'm gonna buy shares in the roads now 

[JOE SOAP]

I think I'm gonna buy shares in the roads now 

Your tax share that paid for them says you all ready own them.

[Old Tankie]

...and the pot holes that go with them!  Our tax share paid is obviously not enough.

[House of Usher]

I think I'm gonna buy shares in the roads now 

you're going to buy shares in a Chinese sovereign wealth fund?

[Gonk]

It's no longer a figure of speech to say that the government is selling the ground beneath your feet.

I shouldn't think there is much else left that they can flog to the foreigners.

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2000ad?

[the 'artist' formerly known as Slips]

...just like in the Irish Republic...

Ah the Irish Republic...  What ever happened to those guys?

arent they a theme park now?   

[TordelBack]

...just like in the Irish Republic...

Ah the Irish Republic...  What ever happened to those guys?

arent they a theme park now?   

Don't care for the theme much.  Was Westworld too much to ask for?

[The Legendary Shark]

Selling off our roads? *sigh*

It seems that the same greedy, murdering scumbags are behind this attack. According to The Guardian:

"The bankers NM Rothschild suggested in a report in 2010 that privatising the road network could raise £100bn. Government sources said the scheme proposed by Cameron would raise far less because he plans to lease out trunk roads and motorways, rather than embarking on a full-scale sell-off, as NM Rothschild suggested."

Oh, those pesky Rothschilds (Rothschildren?) - isn't it enough that they already own our money supply and vast swathes of our other utilities? Feudalism, anyone? One day soon, if we are not careful, we will awake one morning to find that we are mere serfs in the countries our forefathers worked and fought and died for to make free.

Okay, instead of going on about the evils foisted on us by these banksters I'd like to take a different tack and ask a simple question:

What is Government for?

Answers on a postcard to: David Cameron, 10 Downing Street, London - because I don't think he knows.