This Week: Let's abolish prosperity
Oh my, Josie Long made a guest appearance on the BBC current affairs show "This Week" and it wasn't pretty. Along with the anarchist morons and 'student' protesters, (many of whom turn out not to be students at all but like the idea of smashing stuff up on the condition that other people pay for the damage,) Ms Long is off in fantasy land. In fantasy land the government has a bottomless pit of money to spend generously on everything. In fantasy land universities get more money but none of it has to come from the people being educated. "That sounds nice" I hear you all cry out with great anticipation. Unfortunately, even in fantasy land this means more tax. Apparently the government doesn't take enough money off people as it is. How many of the people welcoming the subsidisation of fees in Wales realise this mean that the funding for welsh universities will be lower than their counterparts in the rest of England?
Total UK government spending in 2009 was £631 billion, i.e. 631,000,000,000 or about £10,000 for each and every man, woman and child in the country. Spending is expected to increase every year for the foreseeable future.
When Labour introduced tuition fees and then trebled them Josie Long thought "I don't agree with that, but nevermind" whereas a Conservative-led government plans to increase fees by about 2.5x and it's the end of the world as we know it. Misguided, blinkered tribalism of this nature is so very disappointing and frankly rather stupid. I even found myself agreeing with Ed Balls about something this week. I can't remember what it was off the top of my head, but the point is that opposing/supporting everything because of who it comes from is daft, but all too widespread.
Supposedly if we impose punitive taxes on all rich people everything will be alright. Tax havens are the cause of all fiscal problems, if these leftists are to be believed. Do these people never ask themselves why people move to tax havens in the first place? The highest current income tax rate is 50%. That's just income tax too, before we go into VAT, duties and other taxes. Is it really so very hard to understand that when people earn money they don't wish to send the majority of that money to the tax-man to be frittered away on all sorts of rubbish?
Maybe, just maybe, if our taxes weren't so god damn high wealthy people would stay here and contribute. I don't see how 50% of nothing is better than a smaller amount of something. One popular hate figure for these people at the moment is Philip Green. I'd love for Mr. Green to pay taxes in this country too, but considering that his company employs thousands of people I don't see that it's entirely beneficial to attack his high street stores. I wonder if anyone has ever asked tax exiles how low the tax rate would have to be for them to stay (or rather 'return', I suppose).
If anyone made it this far, I commend your dedication, and I apologise. I really didn't intend to write so much when I started, but one thing tends to lead to another. I don't really like the idea of £9k per year fees and I really don't know if I'd have gone to university myself at that price. Then again, I had to pay my fees at the time, not afterwards. Either way, spouting long discredited socialist claptrap doesn't help anyone.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00wf757/This_Week_02_12_2010/
Total UK government spending in 2009 was £631 billion, i.e. 631,000,000,000 or about £10,000 for each and every man, woman and child in the country. Spending is expected to increase every year for the foreseeable future.
When Labour introduced tuition fees and then trebled them Josie Long thought "I don't agree with that, but nevermind" whereas a Conservative-led government plans to increase fees by about 2.5x and it's the end of the world as we know it. Misguided, blinkered tribalism of this nature is so very disappointing and frankly rather stupid. I even found myself agreeing with Ed Balls about something this week. I can't remember what it was off the top of my head, but the point is that opposing/supporting everything because of who it comes from is daft, but all too widespread.
Supposedly if we impose punitive taxes on all rich people everything will be alright. Tax havens are the cause of all fiscal problems, if these leftists are to be believed. Do these people never ask themselves why people move to tax havens in the first place? The highest current income tax rate is 50%. That's just income tax too, before we go into VAT, duties and other taxes. Is it really so very hard to understand that when people earn money they don't wish to send the majority of that money to the tax-man to be frittered away on all sorts of rubbish?
Maybe, just maybe, if our taxes weren't so god damn high wealthy people would stay here and contribute. I don't see how 50% of nothing is better than a smaller amount of something. One popular hate figure for these people at the moment is Philip Green. I'd love for Mr. Green to pay taxes in this country too, but considering that his company employs thousands of people I don't see that it's entirely beneficial to attack his high street stores. I wonder if anyone has ever asked tax exiles how low the tax rate would have to be for them to stay (or rather 'return', I suppose).
If anyone made it this far, I commend your dedication, and I apologise. I really didn't intend to write so much when I started, but one thing tends to lead to another. I don't really like the idea of £9k per year fees and I really don't know if I'd have gone to university myself at that price. Then again, I had to pay my fees at the time, not afterwards. Either way, spouting long discredited socialist claptrap doesn't help anyone.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00wf757/This_Week_02_12_2010/
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