Public Sector Strikes

[StuartHopkin]

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.

[StuartHopkin]

A banker, a school teacher, a Tory mp and a member of the general public are all sat in a room with a table and a plate with ten biscuits on it....... The greedy banker eats 9 of the biscuits and the Tory mp turns to the member of the public and says "becareful of the school teacher, I reckon she is trying to nick your biscuit"

What the?

It's an old joke Bopkin...don't you understand? It's all the banker's fault that the pension pot has been in trouble for years.

Its on a par with some of your jokes on the joke thread.

[Bongo]

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?

[Jon MW]

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.

I wonder how many people who think the 'rich' should be taxed more - know how much they're being taxed at the moment?

I strongly suspect that their view is pretty much - however much they're paying now, they should be paying more.

[byronkincaid]

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.

so there is a multi zillion pound fund set up to pay public sector pensions? what's it invested in?

i thought they get a promise from the govt to pay them when they retire in return for getting less wages today. pretty much same as the state pension no?

[Acidmouse]

I asked the question coz i didnt know..

[StuartHopkin]

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.

I wonder how many people who think the 'rich' should be taxed more - know how much they're being taxed at the moment?

I strongly suspect that their view is pretty much - however much they're paying now, they should be paying more.

Yeah just kind of makes me sick to hear that someone thinks that in return for creating 70 jobs I should be taxed even more than I am now.

[ACE2M]

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!

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.

Because i believe in a socialist state, (the western understanding of that term).

[ACE2M]

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.

[AndrewT]

Easy on the name-calling there, comrade - let's keep it civil.

[boldie]

A banker, a school teacher, a Tory mp and a member of the general public are all sat in a room with a table and a plate with ten biscuits on it....... The greedy banker eats 9 of the biscuits and the Tory mp turns to the member of the public and says "becareful of the school teacher, I reckon she is trying to nick your biscuit"

What the?

It's an old joke Bopkin...don't you understand? It's all the banker's fault that the pension pot has been in trouble for years.

Its on a par with some of your jokes on the joke thread.

Harsh mate, very harsh

[Bongo]

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.

[ACE2M]

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.

how do you propose maiximising revenues while forcing down growth and gdp?

[StuartHopkin]

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.

I am happy to extend on my opinions, and happy for them to be disected I wont even call anyone a twat.

I own part of a company with 2 other people.

The company creates 70 jobs, and through these and the corporation tax and VAT bills we chuck a cheeky mirrion into the government pot.

They then ask me after all of that for an obscene chunk of anything I try to take myself.

I like to think that creating all that tax is a little help to them, to the point that maybe we should be let off a little bit of our own tax, but you seem to think I should be taxed even more which I find a little unfair and that's what I was interested in.

Tax me much more and I will have to go and live somewhere else!

[Bongo]

Do you have a better plan then?

Shall we do this in rap form?