General Election 2024: Gone on the 4th of July

[Spikey M]

Ideally we could tax the rich and not have retarded people in charge of everything. Judges included.

[Pepe]

Our second largest city is currently waist-deep in its own rubbish because the bin men are on strike. Unfortunately, the local government can't just pay them off, because a judge recently woke up one morning and decided to interpret equal pay legislation to mean that completely different jobs were now of 'equal value' and must be paid the same. This means that if the local government chooses to pay them more it will have to raise the wages of thousands of other people doing all manner of jobs that have got nothing to do with rubbish collection (except it can't anyway because it is already bankrupt settling historic claims against it for not doing so previously).

So yeah, just tax the rich a bit more.

I swear that every time we try to make anything 'more equal', it just ends making everyone worse off. Equality might be better than inequality, but as a main goal, it has an atrocious track record.

[Luke Emia]

I think you are missing the bit on the income that a hell of a lot of people are self-employed and will pay themselves £12,570 so they don’t pay any tax. There is a whole industry around it with people in the construction industry claiming tax rebates after deducting their costs and reducing their income down.

There is a simple way to get those people paying more tax into the economy make them be employees and collect PAYE from the employer. But, that would cost rich people so it’s a no go.

[Pepe]

So between retired people, self-employed people, students, people on benefits, etc., that statistic is completely meaningless, isn't it?