If there's a massive cost to society then absolutely and hopefully they'll be driven out of the country.
bet365 boss pays herself £265 MILLION
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Caporegime
So now you want her to leave and lose all the tax income?
It's not enough to cover for the damages and it would also conveniently end this thread.
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Not if the £250million is 60% of their total pay, an extra 10% is only £41mil less
Caporegime
Should we get rid of all the owners of alcohol companies too?
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No I like my drinks
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How about the opposite, we lower tax for everybody, so we can all pay for private medical healthcare and not receive any state benefits, can't afford it ? Well too bad don't be sick and get a better job
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Soldato
As always there's two main groups, the "oh won't someone think of the nurses/teachers/police etc" group and those of us who live in this reality where we think doing "well" should be congratulated and emulated rather than being shown the bitter spite of jealously.
I do notice it's generally the "Left" leaning who always want to take more and more money from all the other people (never themselves) who have succeeded at life and give it all away to everyone else without any thought other than "my feelings say its the right thing to do" whilst also decrying the hateful rich for not sharing with the rest of us.
Life has never been fair in the past, it isn't fair now and it will never be fair in the future no matter how much a twisted ideology tell people it can be - all because humans, by their very nature, are not "fair" creatures and so the cycle continues for ever more.
I do notice it's generally the "Left" leaning who always want to take more and more money from all the other people (never themselves) who have succeeded at life and give it all away to everyone else without any thought other than "my feelings say its the right thing to do" whilst also decrying the hateful rich for not sharing with the rest of us.
Life has never been fair in the past, it isn't fair now and it will never be fair in the future no matter how much a twisted ideology tell people it can be - all because humans, by their very nature, are not "fair" creatures and so the cycle continues for ever more.
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Simplifying it way too much with 'left' leaning there.
We have a huge generational problem in this country that is forcing people into what is generally regarded as 'lefty' because they have no choice since the geriatrics keep taking all the ladders away.
We have a huge generational problem in this country that is forcing people into what is generally regarded as 'lefty' because they have no choice since the geriatrics keep taking all the ladders away.
Soldato
This isn't Speakers Corner wee man.
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Never been fair yet old boomers had it pretty easy tbh.
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They take money out of the economy and just sit on it and just build wealth that doesn't add to anything but some numbers on a piece of paper, the problem is as society we have qualified "doing well" as being stupidly rich by probably stepping on others to reach the top
How about we change society so people in actually important jobs are congratulated for doing well by performing those jobs and paid a decent wage instead of worrying about congratulating literal money vampires, you don't lift up society by knocking everybody down, you lift up society by lifting up the lowest
If we just change perspective on where we see tax taken -
instead of -
Tax man taking money from a person who worked for it
Think of it like -
Charging business a greater amount to pay higher amounts
And measuring success purely on how much money is made regardless of moral compass is the poisonous end of capitalism that needs some control.
instead of -
Tax man taking money from a person who worked for it
Think of it like -
Charging business a greater amount to pay higher amounts
And measuring success purely on how much money is made regardless of moral compass is the poisonous end of capitalism that needs some control.
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Man of Honour
What a load of rubbish, what makes you think that?
I've always basically lived hand to mouth.
Gambling addiction is very real and some people are massively affected, but that's a problem that lays with successive governments, not some CEO of a gambling company acting within the law and paying a lot of tax.
Soldato
I have it a lot easier than my boomer parents did.
Just because we haven't benefited (our parents must have missed the boat or not had the right ticket), the vast majority of boomers had it simple compared to the generation before them, and the generation after. Final salary pensions, record low house prices, getting on the stock market from ground zero, etc etc.
Soldato
I am the generation after! It has been much easier for me, and my similarly aged friends, than it was for our boomer parents. Believe it or not most normal people in the 60s,70s and 80s weren't looking at a stock portfolio, my own dad had 3 jobs (postman, mechanic, barman) to pay for our small semi detached family home, while my mum worked as a secretary.
Man of Honour
Honestly where are you getting this from?
I'm in proper boomer territory at 65 and I haven't had it easy, everything is relative.
It was nice of Labour to lead us to a position where gambling is absolutely everywhere in society.