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You’re better than this. Why don’t we start with community service for the 4m people on UC that have ‘no requirement’ to work? There’s plenty of potholes to be filled, graffiti to be cleaned and so on.

It’s not artificial at all, anyone on UC will be a net tax drain and likewise, anyone on less than £35k will be as well. This data collated by the OBR, DWP and other government/independent agencies. Your arguments are artificial in the sense that you make sweeping statements and observations...

Pointing out that the public sector is less productive than the private sector is not sneering, it’s a fact. Therefore, there’s nothing wrong with pointing out that the governments is subsiding unproductive sectors a people by taxing productive parts of the economy. Their policies have caused...

No, this has been bubbling away for much longer and the costs of immigration can’t be ignored anymore. Farage also articulates a broader conservative economic platform for tax cuts and so on. People are unhappy their tax burden is at peace time records and billions of it is subsidising people...

When you’re highly strung about something, you lash out and bring up a complete straw man. Let’s just set things straight, neither children or the elderly are ‘unproductive’. Children = future taxpayers Elderly = previous taxpayers Examples of people who are unproductive: - 4.03m UC claimants...

Why? It’s the economy and the lack of growth. Tax rises on productive people to subsidise the unproductive people sets us on the road to serfdom.

Define success? Spain has been steadily reducing its wealth taxes - Madrid and Andalusia's (Spain’s capital and 2nd largest region) wealth tax is 0%. In any case, Spain’s wealth tax raises 0.2% of GDP. Spain also has a number of exemptions such as: - primary property - luxury personal items -...

Name them.

History repeats itself once as farce, second as tragedy. This obsession with the left on a wealth tax goes to show it’s actually bankrupt of any intellectual property. Wealth taxes is not a new concept that untested. It’s been implemented and repealed in many countries because it’s not an...

Should any business be valued more than £1bn? Elon Musk doesn’t earn £1.3t, that’s his ‘valuation’ based on the value of his stocks. It’s unrealised wealth and could fluctuate by billions on a day-by-day basis. Ultimately, billionaires are easy targets for people like yourself, but they create...

It has been investigated in numerous countries, including our own country in the 1970s… 😂

Prosperous societies increase living standards, It’s quite ironic to see the left of the political spectrum talk about ‘tickle down economics’ but ignore that its policies around redistribution is ‘trickle down’ via the state. Redistributive policies do not transfer ‘wealth’ from one group to...

I wonder if you’ve ever looked into the fall of the Western Roman Empire…

This polling betrays a fatal flaw with taking a policy position at face value. Wealth taxes are superficially v popular, but pollsters don’t ask the question: if these taxes lead to shortfalls of revenue, will you be willing to pay more tax? Germany modelled a wealth tax and reckoned it would...

All. It’s the sum of migrant hotels (15bn over 10 years) £1.5bn and the cost of welfare benefits to foreign nationals, which sits at £941m per month as of March 2025, doubling from £461m per month in March 2002 (source: DWP). Around a 6th of all UC payments. It applies to all migrants and the...

JDS, he looked hopeless. Torp and Rudoni always had solid underlying numbers. BTA was a solid Championship striker when we signed him. Thomas and Kitch were good in 23/24, they’ve developed over time.

Most of the pots have been decided for the World Cup, a fun draw would be: England-Australia-Scotland-NZ / ROI (if they made it). One to avoid would be Italy if they win their playoff, they’ll be in Pot 4 by the looks of it.

In 2016, it wasn't fun...

What Zach Polanski or the Labour Left doesn’t tell you is the following: - How is wealth actually defined? - Will there be any exempted asset classes? - What are the costs to administer this new levy? - Why have such taxes been repealed in 9 European countries as well as India? ‘Exit taxes’...

Zero facts to support your arguments, zero credibility Tony. Everywhere that applies a wealth tax ends up losing tax revenue elsewhere, therefore, are actually net Wealth taxes may be a new shiny toy for the Labour Left, Green Party and Gary Stevenson, but not for the rest of Europe.