Kyle Bergin retweetledi
Kyle Bergin
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Kyle Bergin retweetledi
Kyle Bergin retweetledi
We made it illegal to employ a 22 year old with no prior experience full time for less than £25k and we wonder why there are no jobs for them
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: A Government review has found employers must adapt to the "bedroom generation" of unemployed 16-24 year olds by offering more flexibility It says they're "not snowflakes or faking it" and their anxiety and depression is linked to growing up on social media [@thetimes]
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@AaronBastani So, to get this right, you believe only those who pay money to the system (the party in charge realistically) should take part? Vote, own property, help build the community? Only if you pay? Mafia or government?
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Nope. Part of the social contract is tax, no matter how high or low you think they should be.
You vote. You can own property. You pay taxes.
A very pernicious idea to argue otherwise!
This is about killing the middle class (who then pay all the tax…)
Jeff Bezos@JeffBezos
Thanks. And it would help a lot of people to zero out taxes on the bottom half.
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@jvb_xyz Ridiculous comment re cope, he literally says he does both but one is more efficient at achieving its goals, agree or disagree with that statement?
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@micsolana @DrewPavlou Flip it on its head… if Bezos was given a billion dollars to fix NYC public schools tomorrow, could he do it? I think so. Question is, how? What would be the most efficient plan, surely he’d come up with it?
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if bezos handed a billion dollars to nyc public schools tomorrow literally nothing would change and everyone knows it, bc the problem isn’t lack of funds it’s shitty government. but these people don’t care bc they don’t care about kids. they just hate you and want your things.
Melanie D'Arrigo@DarrigoMelanie
Jeff Bezos paid $500M for his super-yacht and $75M for his super-yacht’s mini-yacht — both of which he’s allowed to write-off on his taxes. That alone would cover $180 in classroom supplies for every public school teacher in the U.S.
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Kyle Bergin retweetledi
There were massive international protests over George Floyd and those police involved were severely punished with long prison sentences, yet the police responsible here did not even lose their jobs!
An incredibly unjust double-standard!
DogeDesigner@cb_doge
An 18-year-old kid gets stabbed in the street. He’s running for his life, begging for help, and instead of saving him, the police handcuff him while he bleeds out because the attacker claimed “racism.” They let him choke on his own blood. No urgency. No humanity. Just cold, ideological policing. Months later? Still no names. Still no suspensions. Still no accountability. Meanwhile, the same UK police have arrested over 12,000 people for social media posts. They move at lightning speed to jail citizens for tweets and online comments, yet they can’t even name or discipline the officers who allegedly let a stabbing victim die in handcuffs on the street. This is the definition of two-tier policing: aggressive against ordinary people speaking online, but protective when it comes to their own failures and protecting the narrative. The British people deserve real justice, not another cover-up. Justice for Henry Nowak.
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Kyle Bergin retweetledi
Hard to think of a more midwit position than being anti-supermarket.
Tesco is an unmitigated force for good. It supplies tens of millions of people with luxuries their grandparents couldn't imagine, employs 1 in 200 people, and runs on paper thin margins through sheer competence
Ross McCafferty@RossMcCaff
Such a scam that right wingers have suddenly switched to 'profit margins' when discussing supermarkets, because its far easier to say 'oh poor Tesco is scraping by on a 2% profit margin' rather than consider whether Tesco making £3bn a year while people starve is good
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@MattMJones00 @WatchReform @raelbrav Rent is tax as salary, profits taxed similar rate to salary if taken as dividend (but unclear what you mean here), stocks are unrealised wealth so they have no substantial access to the gains here? (Much like they are protected from paying on the losses, which is correct)
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@Kyle_bergin10 @WatchReform @raelbrav Think you might be confused. Top 1% of tax payers is those who earn 180k to 200+. This figure is PAYE. How many millionaires pay PAYE - not many at all. If they do pay themselves a salary that is taxed, what about the income on assets like rent, profits, stocks - via tax havens
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Again with the breakfast clubs! Everyday you tell us about the breakfast clubs!
Parents should be feeding their kids. End of.
Bridget Phillipson@bphillipsonMP
With Reform UK, it's always about 'looking after our own' until it comes to feeding children. Labour is providing over 6,400 children across Kent County Council with free breakfast clubs. Reform UK literally want to take the food from their mouths. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
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@villi @r0b0t_sp1der As below, so what? If he has several years of little to no tax yet one year pays the highest amount ever paid by an individual, shouldn’t you be happy? Genuinely confused by the idea that you seem to be happy if he paid a smaller overall amount so long as he paid annually
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@r0b0t_sp1der Of course. He is the richest person in the world. But, I bet in the past 20 years he has never had a higher effective tax rate than me.
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This is a half truth. The top 1% is bankers, layers, small business owners, and highly paid employees and execs. They pay a very high effective tax rate. The super wealthy like Bezos, pay an extremely low effective tax rate, similar to a middle class family.
Jeff Bezos@JeffBezos
Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.
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Kyle Bergin retweetledi
The year is 2026.
The U.K public are not accepting of anyone making money now.
We are going after supermarkets.
Which literally fed our nation.
Have invested billions in building stores, employing staff, supporting farmers.
Our envy on society has turned on literally the hand that feeds us.
People now have a problem about them making profit on wafer thin margins of between 2-4%
Are people genuinely losing their mind and cannot comprehend how them making a profit can benefit people?
They’ll improve their stores, open up more, employ more people, return cash to shareholders - which include our pension funds.
Why have we got this view that companies making profit if a bad thing.
Personally I wish our NHS made a profit… that’ll be the day we see standards improve.
But the UK are not ready to have that debate….
Gary Shaw@GaryMerseybox
@Matthew__Bowles They made a profit of £3bn last year. Ffs
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@ColeMaritz @JeffBezos Citizens have skin in the game… people don’t have to pay money to want to see their community, county, country do well
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@JeffBezos I’m a fan and admirer of yours, but I disagree that the bottom 50% of income earners shouldn’t pay taxes. Taxes are skin in the game. Every citizen has a stake in government, so everyone should contribute, even if it’s a small sum.
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Kyle Bergin retweetledi
Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.
Shay Boloor@StockSavvyShay
Jeff Bezos said the bottom half of Americans should pay zero federal income tax. He cited a nurse in Queens making ~$75K and paying ~$12K in taxes saying “we shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington.”
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@Clyde_Sports25 @RangersBanter17 Struggle to read the time pal?
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@RangersBanter17 They literally cannot take it any further than moaning 😂 sorry to tell you this, but the game didn't finish early. This isn't hard to grasp. Maybe it is for the hard of thinking....
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I genuinely think Hearts weren't going to take this all the way but after O'Neills comments on Talksport they have decided to do it.
Heart of Midlothian FC@JamTarts
📝 Club Statement: tinyurl.com/mwcpa8xf
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@WatchReform @raelbrav What would signify to you the correct amount? 10% of taxpayer pay 60% of income tax, should it be 70? 80? 90? Why would they stay here to prop up a failing state at such levels?
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@Kyle_bergin10 @raelbrav Imagine if they actually paid the correct amounts too...
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@raelbrav and millionaires should be paying their taxes and declare their bribes 🤷♂️
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@Dalmuirbhoy @_William72 Ahh much better then mate, great point
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This is how they are brought up, brought up by animals to become animals.
Hope he is proud of himself
Truth Speaker@laughingatSNP
A fan of @CelticFC is actually trying to attack the hearts captain whilst holding a CHILD! This is beyond appalling- what a sick sick individual
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@hwilliamssomers @jbhearn You can just ask Grok. But it's basically over 50% anyway.
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In the U.K. a person earning a £million will pay more than £600,000 in tax. Thanks to all those receiving high incomes and staying in the U.K.
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Kyle Bergin retweetledi
I'll tell you what I don't like, Darren. I can't speak for everyone, but these are my thoughts…
I don't like a tax burden at its highest level since 1948, under your government and the last, producing the weakest growth in a generation. And worsening public services to boot.
I don't like a 46% hike in the minimum wage for under-21s in three years that's helped push UK youth unemployment to 16.1%, above the eurozone average. I want young people paid more, earned through growth, not handed down by decree that squashes the rungs above them and tells a skilled forty-year-old their two decades of graft are worth precisely the same as someone walking through the door on Monday morning.
I don't like industrial electricity prices that are the highest of any IEA country reporting. Full stop. UK steelmakers pay 40% more than their French competitors. You don't build a future of advanced manufacturing on those numbers.
I don't like a planning system that takes longer to consent a pylon than to build one, business rates that punish high-street enterprise, and employment costs that turn every hire into a risk.
I don't like watching world-class British research get commercialised in Boston and Palo Alto because the capital, the talent and the regulatory patience aren't here. They're fleeing.
I don't like long-term borrowing costs at their highest level in over 25 years, eating into every budget for schools, hospitals and defence before a penny is spent.
I don't like the OECD saying that we're going to be the hardest hit economy as a result of a conflict in the Middle East that's got nothing to do with us. All because we've made ourselves weak and vulnerable.
I don't like a government that confuses 'raising money' with 'creating wealth'. Or 'standing against unearned wealth' with taxing to death the people who actually make things happen in this country.
You don't lift children out of poverty by strangling the economy that pays for their schools. You do it by letting Britain grow again. Letting it play to its abundance of strengths.
In this case, I feel the best way is for government to get the hell out of the way.
Darren Jones MP@darrenpjones
What is it that the Conservatives and Reform don’t like about a Labour government standing against unearned wealth? What is it they don't like about raising money for our state schools, our hospitals, our police, and to lift children out of poverty?
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@ArtemisConsort That’s probably true but then aught it also be true that we should then raise the minimum wage and tax the rich?
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If we could get an accurate account of how much time employees spend goofing off, I am highly confident the net amount of “wage theft” would be negative.
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