I Wonder How Long Gulliver Will...
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If You Were The Pm For Long Enough To Do One Major Thing
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what would it be?
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Change the law so that our armed forces could only be committed in the direct defense of the the UK and territories.
They could then be scaled back to fulfill that role and the money saved used to give those no longer needed a proper training so that they could get a proper job and contribute to the economy.
I'd call it the "No more foreign adventuring act"
They could then be scaled back to fulfill that role and the money saved used to give those no longer needed a proper training so that they could get a proper job and contribute to the economy.
I'd call it the "No more foreign adventuring act"
SB, //No-one 'earns' more than £150k - some people are paid that much (usually for non-jobs that add nothing to society) .//
That's not necessarily true at all. Many high earners work extremely long hours, take few holidays, and they work damned hard. They create jobs for others, and they bring business into the country - and therefore wealth into the economy. Make no mistake - they 'earn' their money!
That's not necessarily true at all. Many high earners work extremely long hours, take few holidays, and they work damned hard. They create jobs for others, and they bring business into the country - and therefore wealth into the economy. Make no mistake - they 'earn' their money!
//Many high earners work extremely long hours, take few holidays, and they work damned hard. They create jobs for others, and they bring business into the country - and therefore wealth into the economy.//
As do many working people who earn next to nothing actually, particularly in manufacturing, transport, agriculture and construction.
As do many working people who earn next to nothing actually, particularly in manufacturing, transport, agriculture and construction.
Sorry - I still think that a much higher rate of tax on excessively high incomes (perhaps tied to the salary of the Prime Minister?) is the only effective engine of fair distribution of wealth.
I paid higher rate tax for many years - no I didn't exactly like it, but I regarded it as appropriate that I should contribute more because of my higher income.
Using the argument of "it will be wasted on the indigent/feckless/workshy/foreign" is an irrelevance. That problem needs solving - but is no excuse for allowing those being paid obscene amounts of money to avoid paying higher rates of tax.
I paid higher rate tax for many years - no I didn't exactly like it, but I regarded it as appropriate that I should contribute more because of my higher income.
Using the argument of "it will be wasted on the indigent/feckless/workshy/foreign" is an irrelevance. That problem needs solving - but is no excuse for allowing those being paid obscene amounts of money to avoid paying higher rates of tax.
Dave, a fair distribution of wealth? Why should someone who earns his money through sheer effort give it away? He already pays income tax at a higher rate, he pays a higher rate of council tax because he has a larger house, even though he takes no more from local services than the fellow in the council house; his children possibly attend private school and he probably has private health insurance and rarely seeks care from the NHS, so overall he takes very little from the system. Why should he be penalised further simply for being successful? What’s fair about that?
