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Aranel, please can you put a spoiler over that filth. Nobody likes to see the truth. /Bury's head in sand. |
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Whatsfor 2,187 posts
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Jeepers 16,616 posts
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Registered 16 years agoAranel wrote:
they didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
Story might have been more accurate had the tenth man employed an accountancy company who ensured that he paid a fraction of the £59 he owed before fucking off to the Isle of Man.
/see Bono, Lewis Hamilton, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Michael Caine... -
dnbuk 5,011 posts
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JuanKerr 37,710 posts
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Registered 15 years agoJeepers wrote:
Aranel wrote:
they didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
Story might have been more accurate had the tenth man employed an accountancy company who ensured that he paid a fraction of the £59 he owed before fucking off to the Isle of Man.
/see Bono, Lewis Hamilton, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Michael Caine...
Quite. Perhaps a fairer system would stop them fucking off in the first place ... -
lost_soul 9,372 posts
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Registered 19 years agomcmonkeyplc wrote:
Unless you're Sony, $ != £.
GiarcYekrub wrote:
Ahhh I found figures for employment at 28.93 million people but still thats
£829.7 billion / 28.93 million people = £28,679.57 per person ummm thats alot....
Also you dont measure debt per capita that is a political shitty game. You measure it against your GDP/ GNP.
Which according to wiki is estimated at $2.674 trillion in nominal terms (not adjusted for inflation)
Now what is $829.7 billion as a percentage of $2.674 trillion?
829,700,000,000/2,674,000,000,000= 0.31028 or 31% of GDP.
BIG NUMBERS
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Clive_Dunn 4,862 posts
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Registered 18 years agoJuanKerr wrote:
Jeepers wrote:
Aranel wrote:
they didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
Story might have been more accurate had the tenth man employed an accountancy company who ensured that he paid a fraction of the £59 he owed before fucking off to the Isle of Man.
/see Bono, Lewis Hamilton, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Michael Caine...
Quite. Perhaps a fairer system would stop them fucking off in the first place ...
Hah, yeah of course it would. It's not like they are all greedy cunts who don't want to pay a penny of tax if they can avoid it. -
Do those figures include the off-balance stuff - PFI? -
Khanivor 44,800 posts
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Registered 20 years agoAranel wrote:
they didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
You don't happen to work as a corporate accountant, do ya? Because that's a cute little parable but it's based on BS figures.
Let's have the companion to the original bar tab, where the 100 bill is 10 times the wage of the poorest four and 1,000th the wage, (not counting dividends and interest from investments and assets) of the richest person. -
morriss 71,293 posts
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Registered 17 years agoDenmark has no national debt. Not bad. -
morriss wrote:
Denmark has no national debt. Not bad.
they do own Greenland, and everybody knows what goes on there... -
morriss 71,293 posts
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morriss 71,293 posts
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Registered 17 years agoAranel wrote:
they didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
Bollocks, frankly, but nice story.
We live in a community where the strong help the weak and the rich help the poor while the poor clean up after the rich and do the jobs that are needed to keep the underbelly of society in tact. Everyone plays an important role, and every should chip in exponentially.
You can't compare paying for a decent public health system, public transport etc. to choosing to go out for a few beers: incomparible. -
WoodenSpoon 12,360 posts
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Registered 19 years agoAll the story says is that if you don't make your tax system attractive to the rich then you'll have no rich people to tax and be worse off - it doesn't matter whether that's fair or not, it's just true. -
JuanKerr 37,710 posts
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Registered 15 years agoThe story also says that poor people are useless freeloaders. -
Aranel 669 posts
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Registered 14 years agoKhanivor wrote:You don't happen to work as a corporate accountant, do ya? Because that's a cute little parable but it's based on BS figures.
I personally didn't make the story up at all - it's been doing the rounds for a while and I just copied and pasted
I'm not saying that the figures behind it are right but the essence, in my view, is - pure politics of envy. -
Khanivor 44,800 posts
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Registered 20 years agoAye, I've seen that before, in one form or another. At first I thought it was going to be the old '2p extra change' thing, which it essentially is
And I'm not sure it's simple politics of envy when the gap between the highest and lowest earners has grown in the speed and fashion that it has. More like the politics of corruption. -
Fat_Pigeon 9,922 posts
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Registered 13 years agoJeepers wrote:
Aranel wrote:
they didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.
Story might have been more accurate had the tenth man employed an accountancy company who ensured that he paid a fraction of the £59 he owed before fucking off to the Isle of Man.
/see Bono, Lewis Hamilton, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Michael Caine...
these people might make the 7th-8th man on the scale of things! -
challenge_hanukkah 14,394 posts
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Registered 8 years agoIt's the immigrants. Especially the brown ones. -
Dizzy 3,716 posts
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Registered 20 years agoMust be that 4800000 zillion we give to the EU every second? -
Load_2.0 33,582 posts
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Registered 18 years agoMaybe you will die in a fiery crash.
Pothole noodle. -
£1 trillion is the cost to society of people who bump old discussions which have long been superseded by more appropriate threads.
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