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Mark Wallace

@wallaceme

Chief Executive of @TotalPolitics Group. Writer, broadcaster and media CEO. Columnist for @theipaper.

London Katılım Nisan 2009
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Mark Wallace
Mark Wallace@wallaceme·
First, there are none of anyone else’s resources used to do so. Indeed the effect is more state resources are available to educate fewer people. Second, you’ve completely misunderstood how a market economy works in terms of one person’s “work to their own selfish benefit” generating benefits for others regardless of their intentions.
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Absent angler
Absent angler@absent_angler·
@wallaceme @AngryofB Educating a small group of people using more resources could only be justifiable if it were to enable them to work to the benefit of others, private schooling in the UK does it in a way that in almost all cases is just allowing them to work to their own selfish benefit.
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AngryofBagshot
AngryofBagshot@AngryofB·
I don’t accept the ‘greater social good’ I believe it’s elitist, only benefits the tiny minority who use the system, at the expense of the rest of us. Private sch types support Thier own - I support meritocracy!
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@AngryofB Well, why do you think no other country in Europe taxes education - given it’s a general social good with wider benefits and those who opt to go private also effectively subsidise the state system by alleviating pressure on the taxpayer?

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Dave Rich
Dave Rich@daverich1·
It’s very simple: the Intifada was a campaign of suicide bombings, shootings and stabbings that killed hundreds of Israeli civilians. Calling for it to be “globalised” means bringing it here. That isn’t “criticising Israel”. It’s inciting violent hatred.
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Nigel Marriott
Nigel Marriott@MarriottNigel·
@wallaceme Under FPTP, it is possible for realignment to emerge quicker than other election systems. But the evidence from other countries with hung parliaments for many years shows fragmentation has got worse not better. I'm sceptical of your claim. marriott-stats.com/nigels-blog/el…
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Martin Pilgrim
Martin Pilgrim@MartinPilgrim1·
"You'd all be speaking German if it wasn't for me."- German teacher with low self esteem.
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Paul Andrews
Paul Andrews@vanillaweb·
@AngryofB @wallaceme Dyson UK employs 3500 people in 3 sites in UK Dyson and related entities paid £100 million in UK taxes according to 2026 tax list
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AngryofBagshot
AngryofBagshot@AngryofB·
@wallaceme People like Dyson et al have done nothing for this country except run away taking jobs with them and avoiding tax here. I don’t view that as ‘wider socio economic benefit’!
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Mark Wallace@wallaceme·
@DaCraik64 Adding a tax to something previously untaxed is not “creating a free market”. This is entirely obvious.
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Mark Wallace@wallaceme·
@DaCraik64 Your argument is a) market price is only determined by supply and demand without distortions of state policy, b) market price must have VAT included. Simply bizarre.
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Mark Wallace@wallaceme·
@DaCraik64 An absurd claim. Is the price of apples in Tesco the “market price”? Obviously so - yet according to you it isn’t as there isn’t VAT on them. If you think, as you claim, supply and demand determine market price, then adding VAT is a distortion to that price.
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Mark Wallace@wallaceme·
@DaCraik64 Once more for the slow of thinking - parents *were* paying the market price, and now you advocate that the market price plus 20+% is the “market price”. By your own measure you are talking rot.
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Patrick Kidd
Patrick Kidd@patrick_kidd·
The war what they played a cameo in. Fascinating nugget in Ben Macintyre’s column today
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