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Without supporting Corbyn (because I don't) I don't believe the first, I'm pleased about the second and the third is just a question of timing and context in a world where yesterdays terrorist is todays national leader and yesterdays glorious leader is todays dead dictator.
If the Conservatives don't improve their majority significantly, I suspect they'll kick Mrs May out and find another PM.
Vote May, get Johnson. Let's hope not.
It would be ironic if by not doing, they prevented him forming a government… unlikely but possible.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I think the whole won't push the button on nukes thing is a massive red herring when it comes to a security argument. Not once has having nukes prevented an attack on UK soil by terrorists - and it is precisely this issue that people care about currently. These are small clusters of individuals attacking at random intervals, the majority of whom are prepared to die anyway. The nukes are no use against this threat, we can't use them.
Instead of paying £3,700 in tax and £2,600 in NI, you'd be paying £20,700 in tax and £5,100 in NI - just over four times as much tax, for taking home 2.2 times as much. And you'd lose any child benefit, and access to most other benefits.
And that's assuming you didn't have healthcare through work, which would cost you yet more in tax even though you'd be using the NHS less.
That depends on whether you think Britain is actually loaded with the talent that deserves that money. I suspect that a lot of the top earners in public and private sectors are much like certain English Premier League players: well remunerated for being quite average against the overseas folk.
Saying that raising tax on the top 5% and corporation tax will result in less spending and a loss of talent doesn't compute, because money is being hoarded offshore and not spent now. Reinvesting in our infrastructure instead of an austerity programme that is clearly stagnating our economy will also lead to growth. Giving lower paid workers back even a little bit of spending power has a massive effect on the cash economy, because they typically spend rather than nest egg.
Secondly, I just wanted to giggle at the talk about wages of 80k / 30k etc. A long time ago, roughly ten years, I quit the corporate insurance industry and walked away from circa 60k a year, because I didn't like the person my job had turned me into. I wanted to work full time with disadvantaged kids, and had the skills to do so. I now do a job that, socially at least, benefits society. It's hard, emotionally draining work that puts me in real danger of actual harm on a daily basis. I get 16k, pro ratad (because I don't get paid for the school holidays). Even so, I would gladly pay more tax (hell I don't pay much as it is!) if I thought for a second it would get used for something worthwhile, like getting people off food bank support, properly funding the NHS or rebuilding public services or infrastructure. I have faith, that the Labour party would at least try and do some of these things. So please, realise that if you are comparing losing a few hundred quid a year when you're on 30k / 80k, you sound ridiculous. You're in the top 1% of earners worldwide. I'm wealthy by global standards and one person only needs so much. I've seen real, genuine poverty. I see it every day. Many of our kids come to school just so they get a meal, and it's the only one they get that day.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Corbyn is just telling the people what they want to hear it's a ridiculous plan that will crush our countries economy again under a Labour government.
it's hilarious that people have no memory of previous Labour performance.
We all make our life's choices, why should a government come in and decide, actually thanks for all the tax you pay, I'll have some more please.
Oh you have to sell your hourse because you won't be able to pay the mortgage anymore, well I'll have some more tax when you buy your smaller house then.
Or send the other half out to work, just so you can afford the tax bill. Not good if you have special needs kids the state won't help you with, because one of you earns over a certain threshold. The whole reason one of the parents stayed at home.
The top 10% already pay 50% of all tax, screwing them even more is not going to help.
We've got to stop spending more and more and actaully look at what we are spending our existing budgets on, especially as we have a sodding great Brexit bill to pay.
Deserve ?
We we are not talking about premiership footballers here.
We are talking about Doctors, teachers, lawyers, dentists directors, managers, bankers, sales people, businessmen.
Some people in the public sector are hugely overpaid.
Having earned 80k a year in previous employment, I can confirm money goes out just as fast as it goes in, and when you see your tax/contributions coming off your salary every month you realize how much the high earners are supporting the lower earners in the country. High earners should not be demonized.
Of course you have to be a low earner with a family/children and both parties working to benefit from those high earners paying into the system... ...
I am currently a low earner..... with high earner potential!
The Tories have borrowed more money under Osborne and Hammond than all Labour governments put together - in fact the Tories have historically borrowed more and repaid less, by any measure, than Labour. Only four governments since WWII have ever run a surplus - three of them were Labour.
http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016/03/13/the-conservatives-have-been-the-biggest-borrowers-over-the-last-70-years/ (thanks to fretmeister for link)
If you want to bankrupt the country, vote Tory.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein