@NumanHaocyc @WafflePolitical @kateferguson4 People who bought a house in London in the 1990s have done incredibly well for themselves
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@WafflePolitical @kateferguson4 Many people brought in 1990s won't be able to afford it.
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Could genuinely see a non payment of council tax protest happening in London if this happened.
Or maybe I’ll move to Italy.
Dan Neidle@DanNeidle
Stamp duty and council tax are terrible taxes. Land value tax could replace both - and Andy Burnham has backed it for 16 years. Who wins? Who loses? What happens to house prices? LVT could drive growth. But it isn’t easy. Our model shows its promise - and its problems.
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@kitkilgour @LoftusSteve @maxtempers @DanNeidle @HCH_Hill So what? Tax payer subsided housing shouldn't exist in the most expensive areas of the country. Highly productive citizens can't afford to live in these places but those who won the social housing lottery can? Completely unfair
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@LoftusSteve @maxtempers @DanNeidle @HCH_Hill .... Which areas could easily be many miles outside the area of the council...
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One of the chief selling points of a Land Value Tax is that it improves economic efficiency. But if people can't respond to the tax by using their land more efficiently - because of planning restrictions - or if you exempt social housing (as Dan concedes) then you don't get that.
Dan Neidle@DanNeidle
Stamp duty and council tax are terrible taxes. Land value tax could replace both - and Andy Burnham has backed it for 16 years. Who wins? Who loses? What happens to house prices? LVT could drive growth. But it isn’t easy. Our model shows its promise - and its problems.
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@feanorthinker @deathbian @DrinkinDrano Aldi's profit margin was 2.4% last year
You people don't live in the real world
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@aryafpl @deathbian @DrinkinDrano that’s not true at all. companies set aside a significant budget for shoplifting and still make a huge profit. they raise the prices because they know they can, not because of shoplifting.
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"oh, i accidentally shoplifted. okay" and you go home
φ czarnian juggalo rob zombie φ@shinygirl404
redditors are the most cucked species of all time. beyond parody
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@deathbian @DrinkinDrano No, the people eating the cost of shoplifting are paying customers who do so via increased prices.
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@DrinkinDrano the people eating the cost are billionaires. they'll be fine. it's like picking up a penny off the ground without seeking its original owner. less than that, at scale. it is not normal, good, or healthy for this to cause guilt
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@kukito_122 @jjg1509 @StatisticUrban Do you think $270m will make any difference to this whatsoever? It's a minuscule amount of money on a national scale
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It's absurd that US Representative salaries are still only $174,000. It hasn't been changed since 2009!
Obviously increasing it is an optics nightmare, but it's really bad to pay our electeds so little, especially with the cost of maintaining two residences.
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@fedeCASM21 @JonWi786 @Kev55991013 @jmrosas1845 🤣🤣🤣even the captain of that ship agreed it was a legitimate military target.
Don't start wars and then cry that we fight back you pussies
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@JonWi786 @Kev55991013 @jmrosas1845 y el hundimiento del ARA general belgrano fuera del área de exclusión? te pareció algo valiente eso? sos un imbécil y un hijo de puta. prepará la cola el miércoles porque te vamos a romper el orto, país pirata y colonizador
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-🇬🇧 reconoce la soberanía de 🇪🇸 de Malvinas en 1770 y se retiran en 1774
-🇦🇷 se independiza en 1816 y habita las Islas desde 1820 hasta qué:
- 🇺🇸 las ataca en 1831
- 🇬🇧 aprovechando el ataque de 🇺🇸 las ocupa ilegalmente en 1833
Por eso son 🇦🇷
No mientas más
🏳️🌈 Gavin Barrie 🏳️🌈 &✂️TQ+@jammach
Fun fact. The Falklands islands have never belonged to Argentina nor was ever settled by Argentina. It’s been a British territory, named since 1765 when claimed by an expedition by Captain John Byron for George 3rd. It has been British longer than America has existed.
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@jbrrrrrrr_ @Nathan94217721 @SayWhatYerLike @Thesmophilist Imagine genuinely being invested in a colonial squabble that happened 200 years ago🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Britain won back then. There is a permanent population who deserve self determination. Then you started a modern war and you lost again.
And you still want to displace these people?
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@Nathan94217721 @SayWhatYerLike @Thesmophilist No, youre saying a piece of land is youre because you left a plaque when you were forced to leave because the islands werent hours. Closest thing to "they were promised to us" youre ever gonna get
Also british colonialism isnt "european colonialism"? Ijbol
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I'm an Argentine leftist. I despise the fascist pre-'83 governments, I believe that borders are racist, I abhor settler colonialism and imperialism
Anyway las Malvinas son Argentinas because they're right there and I want em and we should do it, I swear it's not expansionism bro
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@kukito_122 @jjg1509 @StatisticUrban Less than 1 dollar per American citizen. Do you think that's a lot of money to the federal government?
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@jjg1509 @StatisticUrban You wanna spend 267 million dollars a year paying the salaries of Congress? And this dogshit take has 134 likes?
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@okerproker @x8is_ @StatisticUrban Same with phones. If I ever get mugged for my phone (and the guy doesn't seem like a total psycho) I'm telling him that my shitty 5 year old android isn't even worth £10 to him. Whereas it's probably worth 200 to me, especially if I have busy plans coming up
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@x8is_ @StatisticUrban This is kind of a funny example because bicycle thieves are mostly organized crime and that bicycle was definitely worth more to you than whatever money they are able to get for a stolen bike
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@an_average_bear @yuanyi_z It's funny.
Also people who behave in weird ways should be made aware of it. I'm definitely somewhere on the spectrum and it definitely has plenty of negatives. You can't improve yourself without recognising your faults
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@yuanyi_z Using “autistic” as a slur feels kinda gross and tacky.
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Wikipedia editors are very autistic. For instance, the rule is that candidacy to a political office is not a grounds for notability so they will delete pages of people who are a few seconds from winning.
Jessy Han@hjessy_
five minutes until she’s named a U.S. Senator and Wikipedia editors are arguing if Darline Graham Nordone is worthy of a page
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@antony11__ @CharaviaJo @UtdLad__ @MartienBall Irrelevant. Only man united and saudi want him at his current wages, that's the point.
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It’s all jokes until you realise this is basically the same as Bruno Fernandes having a £57m release clause… and he actually does 😭😭😭
•@wrightyavfc
WHO THE FUCK PUT A 35 MILLION POUND RELEASE CLAUSE ON OUR BEST FUCKING PLAYER?!?!?!?!
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It's so funny how many one sided rivalries there are in international football
Scotland hate England, England don't care
England hate Germany, Germans don't care
Germany hate Italy, Italy don't care
Argentina hate England, England don't care
etc etc
Ross McCafferty@RossMcCaff
Scotland fan: Yeah I'll be supporting Argentina, can't have our closest rivals winning Angry England fans in the mentions:
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@JanPogman2 @PalmyrPar @biff_kev Yeah, crazy how poor people were before markets and the industrial revolution started the new world.
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@aryafpl @PalmyrPar @biff_kev Also posting the fucking 2 dollars a day poverty line chart again, lmao
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@MassCat4 @Evergamer16 @FSUmollz @ingloriousClos I do get jealous of American prosperity sometimes but fucking hell that's brutal.
Id rather be poor
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@Evergamer16 @FSUmollz @ingloriousClos Standard is 2 weeks off per year. That’s including birthdays, weddings, Christmas, Thanksgiving, vacations, long weekends, etc, so yeah taking 1 or your 10 days off a year is a big, planned out decision.
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@JanPogman2 @PalmyrPar @biff_kev No. Poverty and suffering is the default form of human existence. Markets created prosperity for all of us
As a society we should strive to foster an environment where we can continue to prosper.
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@PalmyrPar @biff_kev Are there any compelling arguments for why you deserve to live?
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@Darkljolly @haverofsize @Im_RobM Yeah and it feels exactly the same as 4th place. They shouldn't bother with the match
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@haverofsize @Im_RobM Think of it this way, third place feels better than 2nd place
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@Claretjay11 @SCFCJosh96 jaksjsjaja sos del Burnley muerto de hambre ni una alegría tenes pija floja matate y grabalo
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At 39???
Just occurred to me we haven’t played Argentina for 21 years
They are the only top team I can think of in world football that I’ve never seen England play
Wow
Corey🏴🇬🇧@wdsfinest01
If we Beat Norway will be the first time Lionel Messi has Played Against England in his Career
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@TheNotoriousCOB @alexanderao Snapchat is still the main instant messenger for gen z in the UK too. Very few are using it as social media though, only morons are posting Snapchat stories as grown adults
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@alexanderao See this lot myself
College friends never use Snapchat
But people I know from high school who stayed home and never went to college/dropped out still post Snapchat stories all the time
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In my experience, Snapchat usage is one of the biggest divides between coastal city America and the rest of America
Snap is still EVERYWHERE in small towns (to the point where people open it just for the archives) whereas college-ed urbanites seem to have ditched it entirely
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@Im_Magnett @myristaldehyde @CoeKeighlan @EuroWynner Crying about shit that happened 200 years ago, meanwhile you were fascist invaders in living memory.
You are at least partially ethnically European. You are much more a coloniser than me
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@aryafpl @myristaldehyde @CoeKeighlan @EuroWynner my ancestors were peasants who stayed at home also, loser
and YOU invaded us 2 TIMES shortly after our indepence
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Argentina having the same number as World Cups as Germany would be a travesty.
Kraut@The_Davos_Man
Alternatively (and more likely)
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