Tassa i ricchi di più per riempire il buco delle finanze pubbliche, i membri del lavoro dicono a Starmer
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/wealth-tax-keir-starmer-labour-polling-b2807735.html
di terrordactyl1971
Tassa i ricchi di più per riempire il buco delle finanze pubbliche, i membri del lavoro dicono a Starmer
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/wealth-tax-keir-starmer-labour-polling-b2807735.html
di terrordactyl1971
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And i paraphrase Starmers response as “No not really lol, bit sad innit”
How do you do that though without them moving their money or themselves offshore?
“They divide us by our colour. They divide us by our tongue. They divide us as men and women. They divide us as old and young.”
our divisions are their weapon, and our unity is their fear.
Confront the bias in your own heart. Refuse the poison of judgment. See the human being before the label.
We are not fragments—we are a spectrum. Every shade, every voice, every story belongs here. Humanity is not meant to be split; we are meant to stand together.
And to those who hoard power, the narcissists, the 1%—we say: you will not destroy the many to feed the greed of the few.
We are coming. We are countless. And we will not be divided.
Bring in a proper wealth tax: 1–2% annually on assets over £10m, close offshore loopholes, and tighten capital gains rules. Use that revenue to fund the NHS, schools, and decent wages. That’s how you fix the finances without wrecking lives.
Most people don’t want to leave the country they grew up in but there’s a limit of how far you can push people with options before they think of leaving. If you’re constantly being hit with tax rises and failing public services at what point do you get out of dodge.
There shouldn’t be any black hole. we are already paying more taxes than we ever have in history.
Everyone agrees we should tax wealth but no one seems to be able to agree on how beyond the existing wealth taxes we already have.
I think we’d be better off looking at how we can close loopholes in the current system and revise taxation in general than this idea a new wealth tax is going to magically disappear our economic woes.
Not so much the rich. The super-rich, plus corporations taking the actual piss by moving profits made in the UK to other countries with lower tax rates.
End non-dom status. US Citizens can’t dodge tax by living abroad, we should change the law so UK citizens can’t either.
Reddit and Labour backbenchers only have one policy idea: TAx the RiCH. Meanwhile Nvidia is nearly worth as much as annual UK GDP.
How about using lean/six sigma to address ludicrously wasteful procedures? The thing all credible businesses do?
A 1% saving on £1.2trn is £12bn. Just like that.
Think we can save 1% from just the initial work…
Not possible. Taxes are already so high on high earners that increasing them further will reduce tax revenue from lost economic activity eroding the tax base more than it will increase it from the higher marginal rates.
My problem with this statement is the word “rich”. There’s a difference between being rich and being wealthy. I see rich people as those that work for a large salary, whereas I see wealthy people as those where most of their income is passive. Tax the wealthy, not the rich.
The rich. Also known as those of the top of PAYE.
So get ready if you’re in the middle. They are about to go in dry with the BFC 3000.
Why bother spending a life time learning and working hard just to have others rip the skin of your back.
If the government continues to pretend the treasury is a household budget we will get nowhere. It is a fundamental misunderstanding (or purposeful misrepresentation) of how money and government financing works that is destroying this country.
What limits our government expenditure is the access to real resources in the economy, the government needs labour (and steel and power) to achieve its goal not pounds (it has those). Raising more tax only produces surplus labour when people lose their jobs, we cannot contract the economy to prosperity.
This government has shown itself to be naïve politically and IMO fiscally Machiavellian.
Not just wealth, we need to clamp down on companies who’s only purpose seems to be to extract wealth from our country. All the big supermarket chains are not paying the living wage whilst making % increase profits year on year. Amazon etc all pay ridiculous amounts of corporation tax.
This has to stop. Neo liberalism and rampant capitalism are going to run this country into the ground, corporations have to start paying their fair share or we’re toast. The lower/middle classes cannot be wrung out any further. And the idea that big business “will leave” is also nonsense. They’ll just be making fewer billions.
SPEND.
LESS.
That’s it. That’s the key. UC claims significantly up. Motability claims significantly up. Vast vast majority of all Motability cars provided with no modification – the scheme was originally intended to provide disabled people with modified cars so they could drive and get about – who disagrees with this? Not me. Now it’s a scheme for the lazy and feckless to pretend they suffer from ADHD and get given a free fucking car. Who disagrees with this scheme? Every fucking body.
Then who pays when they all run off to Barbados or whatever, and there’s big bills wanting paying?
I know it sounds boot licky, but they have the financial mobility to do shit like that.
I worry it’s one of those “nice in an ideal world” ideas but the reality is just us paying more as per.
Let’s see how it shakes out if it ever does happen, I am just a cynical stranger chatting shit online.
This is what an actual Labour government would do without hesitation, but this is not a Labour government it’s just a Tory government in disguise. So they won’t do it they screw over the poor “Labour” class instead
And be realistic about it.
If you have billions you can afford millions.
We all agree there needs to be a wealth tax, the method can be discussed.
The real solution is we need to spend less on non infrastructure spending. Our benefits/pension structure is unsuitable
He is not going to listen, because he is getting cutbacks from some rich supporters. Also do they really want to tax the rich more, when they are themselves really rich.
Why don’t they reduce spending instead.. the state is way too large
A lot of the wealth isn’t rich individuals but corporations that use various means to pay nothing on the huge profits they make.
We’re still having essentially 19th and 20th century conversations about this stuff, it’s so basic, just entirely obfuscated by power dynamics.
We pretend like taxing the rich or the companies that aren’t paying their way is something that’s difficult to achieve, or even something that’s morally ambiguous – it’s not.