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I said exactly the same to my wife earlier...
Thus budget is a slap in the face to those at the bottom of the earnings scale.
2022 mini-budget discussion
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I said exactly the same to my wife earlier...
Thus budget is a slap in the face to those at the bottom of the earnings scale.
Jeez. Have Labour said what they would do instead? This whole thing is so annoying just watching people get richer while I can barely afford fuel to get around to see my patients.Because the energy companies made a large donation to both the Tory Party fund and Lizz Truss's Leadership Campaign. It's pure, naked corruption.
Tories received £1.3m from fossil fuel interests and climate sceptics since 2019
Gifts and donations were from oil companies, petrostates and climate-sceptic thinktankswww.theguardian.com
Liz Truss reveals campaign donation of £100,000 from wife of ex-BP executive
Contributions were revealed minutes before the new PM announced details of her plan to tackle rising energy bills
Yes... scrapping nuclear weapons obviously makes a nuclear war more likely. With over 200+ countries around the world not having them, it's a wonder how we're not all radioactive glass already!
I don't really want to derail this thread, so I think we'll have to agree to disagree.
Borrowing to cut taxes in an economy that is close to full employment will crowd out whatever extra disposable income the cuts create.
The impact on growth will be minimal at best, but they will cause higher inflation. Just what we want right now.
We have decades upon decades worth of research into the impacts of these sort of tax cuts and we even have a direct historical parallel that we can look at in the Barber Boom of the early 70's.
I'm personally going to benefit by more than £10,000 per annum thanks to these cuts; but what they're doing is utterly braindead, breathtakingly stupid and dangerous.
Whatever I save over the next couple of years thanks to these cuts, will pale in comparison to the damage they're going to cause longer term.
But I suspect they know that all too well; and in fact, I doubt that stimulating growth is their objective at all.
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Come off it, you'd know if you'd ever been in a threatening situation / confrontation, played a tactical game like poker or a computer game against a human opponent, that it's so much more than whether someone says they'll hit you back or not. In fact I'd say that's way down the list of 'can i attack this person and get away with it', depending on the situation you may even be giving the game away by saying you'll retaliate because they may asses that you're bluffing and call your bluff.
I really can't decipher your point. Only a mad man is going to risk calling a bluff over nuclear weapons (and sadly Putin knows that well).
Its a more a case of how nice it is to live in the country where they work and the cost of living rather than the tax rate. That's why so many high paid workers are leaving since brexit because this country has gone to **** and is getting worse. This tax cut will do nothing to change that. In fact ignoring the low and middle paid will just speed up this country going downhill so even more will leave.
I'm sorry, you think I'm disgusted with myself? I thought it was quite clear I'm disgusted with the decisions the Conservative government have just taken regarding taxation.
And tax cuts can harm tax payers if the long term economic performance of the country is damaged by short sighted, poorly targeted tax breaks. An example being they could have spent the £1-2billion per year that it will cost them to abolish the 45% rate on Northern Powerhouse rail, completing the eastern spur of HS2, or any number of other infrastructure investments that would drive up economic growth. Instead, they're putting £1-2 billion per year into the back pockets of individuals who will simply save it.
Unless you are suggesting that Corbyn was lying your post makes no sense.
Not really, we're going to stick a tax on all your future energy bills so we can protect the profits of said energy companies
Nothing remotely good comes from getting rid of or crippling our nuclear weapons with the world in the state it is today, or due to how much we've stuck our neck out and our noses into things in the past. It would be foolish even if you disagree.
Going back to your previous posts - if the Tories really wanted to make a difference a temporary VAT cut would do much more, though really needs to be combined with other measures to balance the economy.
EDIT: Though in these times I'm not sure companies wouldn't, more than ever, just use it to boost their own profits and pass little on to the consumer in the longer run.
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Does the fact that multiple people in this thread, who stand to significantly benefit from these tax changes, are strongly advocating against these changes not give the "tax cuts are awesome, you're just jealous crowd" pause for thought?
Agreed.
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If you're having trouble decipher my point maybe you should try rereading what i posted, only this time slower, so you can explain what part of my post had you flummoxed.
ROFL, saying only a mad man would use them in the same sentence as mentioning Putin sort of takes away the impact you were perhaps seeking. Also if only a mad man would use them then i guess that means either Corbyn was right to unsure on their use or all previous PM's who've said they would use them are in fact mad.
Lied about what, I'm unsure if you need to work on your comprehension skills. Should i assume you mean lying about not being sure if he'd use nukes? Because you are aware that you can't lie about being unsure, right? That being unsure, something that's neither a positive or negative, neither a 1 or 0, neither i would or wouldn't statement, that when i started because i said I'm unsure if you need to work on your comprehension skills i neither said you do or don't need to work on them.
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Nope, with this moral vacuum of a government, nothing shocks me anymore. Although I am enjoying the Fore Lock Tugging, Tory Cultists scramble to defend the indefensible.
You are twisting things around there more than a bit. Putin is banking on the West not being mad enough to call his nuclear bluff...
And why is that? Is it because he said he'd use them or because we've (everyone else with nukes) has assessed his personality, posture, how threatened he feel and any number of other factors over him simply saying he'd use them.
I mean if we went just on what he said we would've gone running with our tails between our legs decades ago.
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