@David__Osland The problem isn’t tax as the country receives record taxes. It’s its waste with no accountability. £179m wasted today as Labour rightly cancelled the tunnel at Stonehenge. £335K for each new prison cell. Higher than the cost of an average UK house. Mad!
Sweden had a wealth tax which included your home set at about 1.5m+ kronor. About £115K at the time it was finally removed in 2006. It forced elderly who were capital rich but cash poor to sell up after living their decades.
Be careful what you wish for. Define wealth first. However, only a tiny few countries out of 195 have a wealth tax for very good reason.
Polanski's call for a wealth tax would be immensely damaging to ordinary working people. Especially ordinary working people with £10m or more in the bank.
I feel so bad for Harvey Elliot, what's happened to him this season is just not right.
He was player of the tournament last summer as England won a 2nd consecutive U21 Euros title.
He'd played 127 games for Liverpool over the previous 3 seasons, but not favoured by Arne Slot, it felt like the perfect time to move on.
Whether this is Liverpool's fault for not selling him, Villa's fault for loaning a player under terms where they couldn't play him or his agent's for organising a bad move...
He'll be 23 in April, has only been able to 110 League minutes this season and because he's played for Liverpool and Villa in 25/26, he was unable to move in January to another club in Europe.
What a complete shambles of a move that has cost one of England's most promising young players a year of crucial game time and development.
Barcelona have asked Manchester United whether they can loan Marcus Rashford for a second season, as revealed on @talkSPORT last week. As it stands, #MUFC continue to point to the €30m buy option.✍️
talksport.com/football/40819…
It’s reported they fly 800 flights a day during April, so a fraction of the total flights. They do this quite often but obviously on a lower scale, typically when they don’t fill a plane and can move passengers onto the next flight that day. I’ve experienced that a few times with them.
@aleksbrz11 How do you build a facility of that value and not have aerial protection? It doesn’t make sense. I hope they at least have insurance coverage.
@BernieSanders With that approach we’d still be using horse and carts. You can’t stop development. Anyway, if there are hardly any jobs, who will Amazon’s products? 😉
Jeff Bezos, worth $234 billion, plans to replace 600,000 Amazon workers with robots.
Now, he wants to spend $100 billion to fully automate not just his warehouses, but factories in the U.S & other countries.
Oligarchs are waging all out war against workers. FIGHT BACK.
You do start to wonder if this is a legal way to launder money to friends and VIPs knowing the next Government will likely stop it.
It’s amazing anything gets built these days. I read that it costs £335K per cell built for a new prison. That’s bonkers. No wonder the debt is increasing. It can’t continue.
Sorry for the radio silence on here but I’ve been egg-stremely busy working hard to launch my new business! Mum @JudyMurray didn’t believe me but it’s no yolk!
*eggs not included. Just dipping my toes in the cardboard box game. If you know anyone with chickens let me know 🐓
@FoxNews Elon’s wealth is in his COMPANIES! Had he not built them to where they are today, he wouldn’t be a billionaire. What doesn’t Sen. Sanders NOT understand. And why didn’t the Democrats do what he says? 😂
SEN. SANDERS: “60% of our people living paycheck-to-paycheck, and one guy, Elon Musk, owns more wealth than the bottom 53% of American households.”
“Think maybe that might be an issue that we should be talking about?"
@DeborahMeaden Yes, there has to be a clearly defined line and of course proven. And I agree the lack of reasonableness is frustrating to see as it’s putting people off politics and fuelling anger.
@inthezoneuk We also need to distinguish between honestly held opinions and lies…. We have lost the art of reasonableness… different isn’t wrong.. it’s just different.
The trouble with telling fibs is you need a massive spreadsheet to keep track of all the angles they affect… I have always found it easier to just stick with the truth… actually not always… since I was around 5 or 6.
The Government will collect £331bn in income tax this year, and spend £333bn on welfare.
In other words, we now spend more on people not working than we raise from those who do.
And the cost?
Debt per person has risen from £11.5k in 2000 (inflation adjusted) to over £41k today.
So much for the best league in the world? 😬
This is the first time that four sides from a single nation (England) have all gone out at the same stage in the Champions League. What went wrong?