Budget

[motorbiking]

Wealthy people are a tax on working people.

Right on Wolfie, power to the people.

 

[Brigadier]

Right on Wolfie, power to the people.

One day, perhaps

 

[motorbiking]

When the people get the power, it corrupts. Just look at the French Revolution.

 

[Notch7]

When the people get the power, it corrupts. Just look at the French Revolution.

But people don’t get the power.

Wealthy people, wealthy businesses, wealthy lobby groups continuously influence political policy for vested interests.

Right wing populists like Farage, Johnson, Trump are the worst.

 

[ajohn]

Rachel from accounts funding gap.

From memory £15b that will be rechecked in 3 years.

simply being too fat

they may trial jabs on some clinically obese if there are indications that it's preventing them from working.

NI - the BofE feel pay rises are going to be over inflation and higher than the NI increase. 4% as the job market is tight. Getting people who are ill working would loosen that aspect.

The working needy as you may have noticed have been given a decent wage increase.

LOL More political bias as per with Trump. Not really relevant without facts.

 

[JohnD]

"The Conservatives have raised the tax burden to a 70-year high. We will ensure taxes on working people are kept as low as possible. Labour will not increase taxes on working people, which is why we will not increase National Insurance, the basic, higher, or additional rates
of Income Tax, or VAT."

Employer NI is a tax on working people.

Employees are working people.

Employees do not pay employer NI

You know that really.

Employer NI is a tax on working people.

No it isn't.

 

[JohnD]

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we will not increase National Insurance, the basic, higher, or additional rates of Income Tax, or VAT

So you are referring to the sentence that says

"Labour will not increase taxes on working people, which is why we will not increase National Insurance, the basic, higher, or additional rates of Income Tax, or VAT."

It does not say "we will not increase taxes on employers."

 

[diy_fun_uk]

But people don’t get the power.

Wealthy people, wealthy businesses, wealthy lobby groups continuously influence political policy for vested interests.

Right wing populists like Farage, Johnson, Trump are the worst.

Power corrupts, regardless of societal status, wealth etc.

Here's my point.

Imagine we had a so called uprising here in the UK. UK and devolved governments overturned. Hooray, 'the people' are now in power.

How long do you think the utopia would last? How long do you think it would take for whatever form of socialism that replaced said governments to fray at the edges?

What we have may indeed often be sh1te, however I'm far from convinced humankind has it within itself to do much better, certainly not on a long term basis.

Why? Because power corrupts.