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31  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: Please Let this Happen... on: December 01, 2011, 02:56:34 PM
lol at trusting facebook re privacy..

I was talking about data security rather than privacy.
32  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: Please Let this Happen... on: December 01, 2011, 02:32:07 PM
Yeah I think the number of poker sites that haven't leaked data is very small and that's just the ones I have knowledge of (i.e. unique email for each site). Some the emails even have my full name...
33  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Public Sector Strikes on: December 01, 2011, 12:32:52 PM
i know bongo is not a twat but i was getting annoyed with the keyboard warrior snipes. He still hasn't answered my question....

Taxing you more will motivate you to be more succesful to earn more money to cover the amount you're losing, win win? Smiley

WEEE!

I think your question was based on a faulty premise, I was talking about 2 different things really...
1) The coalition's plan (and how I don't think it's good, just I don't see any better ones).
2) How talk of taxing the rich more never takes into account things like the Laffer Curve

You still haven't answered the question of what would you do differently?
34  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Public Sector Strikes on: December 01, 2011, 11:54:30 AM
I imagine that enough data exists for the experts to have an educated guess... My point is more the argument over the 50p tax rate seems to ignore this entirely.
35  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary on: December 01, 2011, 11:42:20 AM
I think that's hilarious, I happened to see it and he was asked about the strikes and he said something positive and then said "as this is the BBC and we have to be balanced I'd better give the opposite side too" and made the comments (in jest).

Now it's being taken out of context to create a story.

Reminds me of this song:
36  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Public Sector Strikes on: December 01, 2011, 11:36:50 AM
It does show though that only the rich can be taxed more to effectively get more money in.

That was a point of mine earlier, increasing tax might not increase revenues and vice versa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve)

Or, to quote JFK:
"It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now ... Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus."

Now I can't be sure that applies now but it seems, politically, discussion about whether or not we could increase revenues by cutting taxes is unpalatable.
37  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: Please Let this Happen... on: December 01, 2011, 10:58:40 AM
Just imagine how easy it will be for nippers "John Smith just won $10,000 playing facebook poker".

Automated bad beat stories too...
38  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: Please Let this Happen... on: December 01, 2011, 10:41:37 AM
People trust poker operators more than facebook? 
39  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Public Sector Strikes on: December 01, 2011, 10:38:03 AM
Not sure you're right there boldie (about the middle's 1% being more than the top's 2%), apparently the top 1% of earners pay 25% of income tax:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/tax/8321369/Top-1-of-workers-pay-quarter-of-all-income-tax.html
40  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Public Sector Strikes on: December 01, 2011, 10:27:14 AM
Do you have a better plan then?

Shall we do this in rap form?

41  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Public Sector Strikes on: December 01, 2011, 10:21:26 AM
i am not a pie in the sky 'tax the rich' lefty btw, although i do think they should be taxed more!
Please expand on why you think this.

Maybe he means they should lower the taxes for the rich as that makes them pay more?

Why don't you post some opinions that can be dissected instead of throwing in the odd pointless post that makes you look like a twat.

Ahh yes, we're all sheep for not saying that something different should be done without a better plan...
But even the people carrying out the plan admit they don't know what they outcome will be!

Why don't you do that?

No one is saying we like the plan it's just that we don't have a better one...

I also think tax policy should be based on maximising revenues and things like the 50% tax rate, which raises no revenue, should be scrapped.
42  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Public Sector Strikes on: December 01, 2011, 10:00:22 AM
i am not a pie in the sky 'tax the rich' lefty btw, although i do think they should be taxed more!
Please expand on why you think this.

Maybe he means they should lower the taxes for the rich as that makes them pay more?
43  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Public Sector Strikes on: December 01, 2011, 09:42:53 AM
The money they save from pensions will be used to pay off the country's debts not stay in the pension pot? Also more people wont bother taking a pension in the public sector workforce and just get more off the state when they retire.

I think there are a few things wrong there:
1) It won't pay off the debt, no one has any clue how we'll do that
2) There isn't really a pension pot
3) Bit of a gamble to assume the state will give them anything when they retire.
44  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Public Sector Strikes on: December 01, 2011, 09:40:58 AM
Ahh yes, we're all sheep for not saying that something different should be done without a better plan...
45  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Public Sector Strikes on: November 30, 2011, 10:33:17 PM
i certainly didn't like the tone of the postings on this thread, it sounded childish, some one took some of my sweets away, i'm happy they're taking yours now.

Anyway, you're going to wheel out the same old tired right wing bollocks and i'm going to wheel out the same old left wing bollocks. we'll take it all as read from here because i can't be arsed.

It seems rather odd that the left wing view is the people who have lost something should ensure the people who haven't don't.
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