Riots in Tottenham, London! (NO RACIST COMMENTS)

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'Progressive' tax policies as espoused by the left are usually anything but, instead amounting to punishing people more successful than them.



What a lovely, rational response that doesn't at all show a completely retarded awareness of national finances.

The top 10% of earners currently pay 50% of all income tax, just as an example ;)

The wealthiest 1% own over 20% of all marketable wealth.
 
The wealthiest 1% own over 20% of all marketable wealth.

So how does that justify stealing it, sorry, taking it by force, sorry, taxing it from them?

How is that attitude any different from that of the rioters who wanted things they couldn't afford?
 
So how does that justify stealing it, sorry, taking it by force, sorry, taxing it from them?

How is that attitude any different from that of the rioters who wanted things they couldn't afford?

I have said nothing regarding redistribution of wealth.

and pay 25% of the tax.

sounds like they're due a tax cut then :)

You know it doesn't work like that, but if you want I can use cakes to explain it :p

And the target here would not be certain individuals, but certain corporations.
 
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Typical clap trap from someone is very little idea about how to progress in life. How about getting a job, saving, then going to Jamaica instead of spending your days yelling in the street and then having to beg for the money?

" Because i'm black "

Oh shut up :rolleyes:, you had a good point up until then. Why mention colour it's nothing to do with that. But you made a good point too robgmun :D
 
Or we could go for an approach that is far more efficient and responsible, and not rely on forcing other people to pay for our desires...

You mean like how the NHS was recently ranked one of the most efficient healthcare systems in the world?

Tax is obviously an emotive subject for people but look at the facts. Countries with high taxes (i.e. Denmark) are the happiest and healthiest in the world.
 
Tax is obviously an emotive subject for people but look at the facts. Countries with high taxes (i.e. Denmark) are the happiest and healthiest in the world.

Actually it's countries with high equality that are the happiest an healthiest in the world (and score highest on pretty much any other positive metric you care to mention). Although high equality countries usually have higher taxes, they don't have to. Japan, for example, has low taxes but performs very well on most metrics.

Taxes are a useful means of manipulating equality because they're a forceful method available to government but they're not the only way of achieving it. It's just rather less clear how you might implement policy to achieve it.
 
Personally, I would rather pay more taxes to lock criminals up, rather than bribe the underclass with 42" plasmas and Sky subscriptions not to break the law.

Or would you prefer the "underclass" (to coin a poignantly snobbish phrase) were rehabilitated to not break the law in the first place, and thus not be "underclass"?
 
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