@robprogressive Hold on, so because people are paid poverty wages we shouldn't tax the super rich more, that's your argument? There's a difference between extracting rental wealth and creating value for society.
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James Wright
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James Wright
@wrightismight
Writer at The Canary
Surfing the multiverse 가입일 Eylül 2013
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The top 1% earners pay 29% of the tax of the TOTAL taxes
Yet 44.7% of the U.K population do not contribute any income tax
The top 10% pay 69% of the total tax revenue
£150,000 earner pays £53,460 in income tax but a £25,000 earner pays £2,486
So no, we should NOT tax the rich more. They are ALREADY taxed more
No wonder all the millionaires are leaving the U.K
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@ArthurMacwaters A different point is that it's the most recent slave trade that impacts the economic situation of people today
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1) slavery was ubiquitous in history and by every civilization
2) the only civilization to fight to end slavery (British and Americans) are still villainized as if they were the only ones who ever owned slaves
Irony in the extreme
The Rabbit Hole@TheRabbitHole
Every race practiced slavery. Every race was enslaved. History is not as simple as pointing out one group of people as oppressors and another group of people as oppressed.
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@AaronBastani Humanity Forward
The People's Party
Common Freedom
Unsubmissive Britain
Rational Riffraff
Grassroots Gravity
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What should the new Zarah Sultana - Jeremy Corbyn party be called? I quite like ‘New Labour’.
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'Governments need to borrow' is a neoliberal scam Ash. It literally attaches debt to the financing of public services
Ash Sarkar@AyoCaesar
It's easy and convenient for Rachel Reeves to shoot the messenger here – but this is exactly the line of questioning political journalists should be putting to Labour. They're saying no borrowing, and no significant tax rises. But even to keep public spending where it is, let alone reverse a decade and a half of austerity, the treasury needs a lot more money. Where's it coming from?
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@KimDotcom hold on in Israel Palestinians literally get shot by snipers for protesting
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Economics Professor at a peaceful US student protest against the Gaza genocide gets a taste of how Palestinians are treated in Israel.
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Israel’s school system has taught racism to genocidal grassroots Israelis, with content analysis showing education materials to be racist against Palestinians and Arabs. @wrightismight delves deeper into the issue. Read more #IsraelEthnicCleansingGaza:
thecanary.co/global/world-a…
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Hard evidence just dropped that shows the British media is complicit in Israel’s genocide thecanary.co/uk/analysis/20…
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@simonmaginn TBF Israel has been using the "trick" for a long time
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The evolution of the antisemitism scam is fascinating to observe. Starting out as an attack on Corbyn and the left, it has metastasised into an all-out assault on our basic freedoms of speech and assembly.
All of it designed to control public unrest about the butchery in Gaza.
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This week I delivered the Budget. Here’s a reminder…
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Israel redefines evil, massacring yet more starving civilians in Gaza queuing for bread. An unspeakable crime; we are now witnessing the flour "massacres". By @wrightismight. Read more below #GazaMassacare:
thecanary.co/trending/2024/…
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Destroying myths about the economy paraded in the budget. "Anything we can do, we can afford"- Keynes plus an MMT lense thecanary.co/editorial/2024…
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Really? After five months of this genocidal mania 'patience is wearing thin'? What might it take for it to run out? theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…
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@MarkSeddon1962 'Jolly good olde chaps spiffing genocide we got going on'
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The depths of utter cynicism. Murdoch's Times wants to 'whisper' that Sir Keir Starmer is 'having a good war'. Shame that the 30,000 dead civilians can't be asked. Nauseating. thetimes.co.uk/article/whispe…
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@MarkKieranUK @OpenBritainHQ Israel has proportional representation. It's not the answer it's more important that there is real democracy within each party such as open selection of MPs
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💥 A huge thankyou to the 29,933 who have already signed our petition. 🙏🏻
Surely we can get it to 30,000 signatures and 10,000 comments by the end of today…no?!
actionstorm.org/petitions/pr20…
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Now this is too absurd. The media will flip reality and somehow defy all logic to make the lead genocide perpetrator the... victim?!?
The Jerusalem Post@Jerusalem_Post
'He's in a bad place': Expert says Netanyahu 'emotionally shattered' by war jpost.com/israel-hamas-w…
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This is the key thing that needs to be universally understood:
Netanyahu backed Hamas and ensured continued funding to Hamas... in order to prevent a peace deal.
He was, quite literally, a vital supporter of the Oct 7th murderers.
Full BBC article --> bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…
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You don't go to a ruthless "war" with a state you are already occupying, by ground, air, and sea. The war is already won if you occupy the place. It's like going to war against your own population. Or shooting and starving endless innocent prisoners - automatically a genocide
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@darrengrimes Are you dumb? What if you are a Palestinian citizen trying to exist in your home country? Military checkpoints, arbitrary arrest, banned from using areas. When they peacefully marched back to protest they were gunned down
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Irish lawyer Blinne Ni Ghralaigh who is supporting South Africa's legal team at the ICJ, says the number of orphans caused by ‘Israel’s genocidal assault on the Palestinian population in Gaza’ has led to the need for a new acronym: WCNSF - wounded child, no surviving family.
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