I’ve had lots of conversations with people about tax.
There is never any shortage of Lefties willing to soak the rich for more taxes – there’s a bunch of them very publicly at it in America at the moment, with the usual results.
And I’ve found that when you try to patiently explain that those who decide whether a tax is fair is those asked to pay it, they go a bit blank. Once they get their minds around it and accept that rich people are pretty mobile and can choose to flee to more benign jurisdictions if they wish, those that can accept the reality (there are many who can’t and insist it won’t happen, even after it happens) almost always respond in exactly the same way.
Usually, with the exact same words.
And this is pretty weird – the richest 1% of taxpayers pay about 30% of the income tax in the UK, so that’s about £120bn a year.
That’s the entire NHS.
On their own.
And yet when they refuse to pay for more than the entire NHS on their own, the Lefties tell them to go abroad with their £120bn and don’t come back. It’s usually a little unclear who they imagine will pay for the NHS at that point.
“30% of the income tax take is no longer enough, fatcats – we want MOAR!”
So we know what it takes to get told to piss off out of it by Lefties – just refuse to pay for more than the entire NHS.
What about jihadi brides?
Apparently, they’re fine – you can wander over to Syria, support terrorists and terrorism, get pregnant, wave away the flies from the decaying decapitated heads in the bins, and then insist the British people owe you sympathy and a ticket home so you can have your baby in a nice clean bed paid for by the wealthy taxpayers you and your Leftie friends despise, and STILL be welcome here.
Good riddance to those who FUND the NHS.
Welcome home to those who ABUSE the NHS.
When your moral compass is that skewed, you probably need to stay quiet and have a bit of a think.
Picking apart the nonsense arguments of the progressive left is like shooting fish in a barrel. You only have to look at geniuses such as the boy Jones or Dick Tater to see that.
If you accept that the leftists ultimately envision an overall poorer society, a lot of what they want to do starts to make sense. Drive out the rich, wouldn’t your GINI coefficient show an initial “improvement”?
I accept this. However, I’m used to my comfortable knowledge based economy job and don’t want to go back to having to grow turnips in my garden fertilised with my own shite.
All the green policy is based on exactly the above.
You used to grow turnips fertilized with your own shite? Yowser. I don’t blame you for not wanting to go back, but there are plenty of people who regret that you ever got out of doing that and regard it as a failure of capitalism.
I need a cup of tea, I read that as: a failure of cannibalism.
If I have to grow my own food, I will be partaking of cannibalism!
It is why the Left is so keen on World governance, because then all Countries would tax alike and there would be nowhere for the rich to move out of reach of grasping Lefties. Some progress already with the concerted bullying of small island ‘tax havens’ and even the Swiss to share financial details to seek out and shame tax avoiders.
The Global Warming scam is another means to advance World governance with Lefties in charge.